John Baker

John Baker has been a student Buddhism for 36 years. A close student of Ch├╢gyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, he co-founded the Karma Dzong Meditation Center and also with Rinpoche co-founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, serving as its first CEO and teaching there in its early years. He is the co-editor of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and The Myth of Freedom and the author numerous articles. After 23 years in private business, he retired. During this time he continued teaching Buddhist thought and meditation practice and is today a senior teacher in the North American Buddhist community. He has also co-lead Modern Buddhist psychotherapy groups for the past 10 years.