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27
Buddhist leads prison meditation
By Phil Wright
East Oregonian
PENDLETON (AP) — Joe
Engum of Pendleton started
mediating because of a per-
sonal trauma.
And for eight years now,
Engum has been sharing that
practice with other men expe-
riencing troubles — inmates
at state prisons.
Engum, 66, called him-
self a “lay student” of Zen
Buddhism, which he grew
interested in after years of
studying karate. The two
disciplines have common
“forms,” he said, such as bow-
ing to show respect to others
and the discipline required to
practice both.
But in 1993, he said he suf-
fered “personal devastation.”
He didn’t give details, but said
he found a rope to grasp in a
book on Zen Buddhism. That
led to a Zen teacher and the
beginning of a now 20-year
relationship with the Dharma
Rain Zen Center in Portland.
Back in 2007, Engum said
a priest at the center asked
him to go into Two Rivers
Correctional Institution,
Umatilla, and lead a medita-
tion group.
The priest conducted med-
itation workshops a few times
a year at Oregon prisons,
Engum said, but she consid-
ered that too infrequent. She
asked him if he would lead a
monthly group at Two Rivers.
“When I started doing it, I
felt like once a month wasn’t
enough, either,” he said. “I
upped it to once a week.”
Then he added a group at
Eastern Oregon Correctional
Institution, Pendleton. The
Two Rivers group meets
Wednesday night, and the
Pendleton prison group
Thursday night.
“I’m authorized to facili-
tate the group and practice,”
he said. “I don’t go there as
a teacher, I just go there shar-
ing the experience of my
practice.”
Zen Buddhism is not a
belief system or religion,
Engum said, but it requires
followers to meditate,
which Engum described as a
method for self-observation
or to understand personal
experience.
“It’s like learning to read
your owner’s manual,” he
said.
The basics require sitting
in a posture where you can be
comfortable, “balanced over
your spine” and relaxed.
“That’s a little difficult
at the start,” he said. “In the
beginning, you try, and in the
end you just do.”
Meditation might look like
someone sleeping while sit-
ting, but Engum said the goal
is to “be awake and aware of
all the sensations and thoughts
that come and go,” but not
dwelling on them, dissecting
them or judging them. Getting
there takes effort.
“You can’t taste the food
by reading the recipe,” he
said. “You have to do the
practice.”
The practice also is about
living in the now, he said, the
thing we often miss out on.
“Over time, this has a
very transformative effect,”
he said, such as being able to
“actually listen to somebody.”
The group’s room at TRCI
holds a maximum of 20 peo-
ple. There is a waiting list to
participate. At EOCI, as many
as 22-24 inmates will attend,
but Engum said most nights
16-18 men show up at either
group. Inmates set chairs and
cushions in a circle and take
places. Engum rings a bell to
signal when the meditation
begins. The groups practice
30 minutes of seated medita-
tion, then 10 minutes of walk-
ing meditation, then 30 more
minutes seated.
The prison groups also dis-
cuss meditation and the book
they are reading, “The Way of
Liberation” by Adyashanti.
Tim Clements, 60, arrived
at Two Rivers six years ago
and is a core member of the
meditation group. He said he
has struggled with depression
throughout his life and needed
prescription medication to
manage the condition.
“Depression for me is very
physical,” he said.
When depressed, he said
he becomes lethargic, shuffles
along, slouches. He also said
he even developed a “strong
sense of entitlement to the
depression.”
The meditation practice
has provided him the tools
to see the symptoms, he said,
and to take action to move
away from the darkness.
Today Clements said he man-
ages his depression with the
meditation and without the
medication.
And the practice of being
mindful and in the moment
keeps him from getting caught
up in gossip and drama that
can thrive in prison.
Fellow Two Rivers inmate
Scott Strickland, 61, has been
participating in the meditation
group for a few years. He said
chronic anxiety would lead
him into depression and poor
choices. The meditation helps
reduce his stress, he said, and
like Clements he now can rec-
ognize the signs of depression
early on and manage them
himself.
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