Bernie Schreck | In the footsteps of the Buddha

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Full Name: Bernie Schreck
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Details: I grew up in Munich, Germany. After graduating from the German equivalent of high school, I studied Mathematics and Statistics, first in Berlin, then in London and finally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In the mid 80's I became interested in Tai Chi and meditation and in 1987 I met Sogyal Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, in London. This encounter slowly steered my life into a different direction as I became more seriously interested in studying Buddhism. In 1989, just after completing my MA in Statistics , I met my wife Sandra at a Buddhist retreat in France and moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she was living at that time. After I came to Santa Cruz I got more and more involved in helping with work of Sogyal Rinpoche's and Rigpa, the international network of centers under his direction. I eventually began working full time for Rigpa US as an administrator in 1993 and stayed there for 13 years. When the Rigpa US National office moved to San Francisco around 2000, and then to Albany, New York around 2003, we came along to help things get started in these new locations. In 2006 we moved to Lerab Ling, Rigpa's retreat center in the south of France, for a three year program of study and practice. Since December 2009 we are back in the US and are living in Hawaii, on the Big Island.