About your blogger: Philip Schrodt

Phil has been a meditator since 1990, first in the Quaker tradition and since 2007 in the Buddhist Theravadan Insight tradition. In 2019 he was selected for and completed both the intensive and extensive versions of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies course on early Buddhism, and has over 100 days of residential retreat experience with teachers in multiple traditions. During the COVID epidemic he guided meditation on Zoom weekly as part of the larger Zoom meditations sponsored by the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville; he currently practices in the Thich Nhat Hanh lineage at Cloud Floating Free Sangha. Phil is an introverted (of course) retired software developer formerly specializing in data analytics, and prior to this taught university-level courses for thirty-five years, with several teaching awards.

Email: schrodt735@gmail.com