About the Author

Rev. Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University and founder of the Mindful Families of Durham. She has published two anthologies, Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists and The Buddha's Apprentices: More Voices of Young Buddhists. Following a master's degree from the Harvard Divinity School, she served as the associate director at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and as the Buddhist chaplain at Duke University. She lives in southern Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Reviews

"Sumi Loundon Kim's Sitting Together provides a richly detailed, comprehensive, and above all wise and kind guide to nurturing our children's, and our own, innate capacity for curious exploration, mindfulness, and love."-- "Wildmind Buddhist Meditation"

"Sitting Together is an invaluable and delightful resource for teachers, sanghas, meditation groups and families. More than a curriculum, it is a much-needed gift. It is clear, practical, well designed and well researched. As one would expect in a book from Buddhist teacher Sumi Loundon Kim, warmth, wisdom, humor and insight shine from its pages. I am deeply grateful that Sitting Together has been given to our world."--Ven. Phap Hai, senior monastic disciple of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and author of Nothing to

"In Sitting Together, Sumi Loundon Kim has created a wonderfully rich mindfulness curriculum for families. She weaves together her great wisdom and compassion and a strong base of practical, real life experience. This book is a generous offering to parents, teachers, and children everywhere. Highly recommended."--Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness

"Sumi Kim's whole life has gone into the making of this wondrous curriculum. Realistic, sensitive, thorough, it gives you all you need to expand your parental heart, hone your parental skills, and share with your children the joys of simple spiritual practice. I believe passionately that children are our number one priority, our number one offering to the future. The need for kinder and better parenting has never been greater than it is now. Please, please, parents, make good use of Sumi's loving work."--Norman Fischer, author of What Is Zen?