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"After earning a B.A. from the University of Michigan as a philosophy major, Ira Rabois traveled to Sierra Leone in 1969 where he taught English as a member of the Peace Corp. Upon his return to the U.S., Rabois settled in upstate New York as part of an intentional community and worked as an English teacher at the private free Clearwater School. He earned a M.A.T. from SUNY-Binghamton in 1973 and studied Karate and meditation with Hidy Ochiai starting in 1975. While teaching for 27 years at the Lehman Alternative School in Ithaca, Ira Rabois developed innovative curriculum in English, Philosophy, History, Drama, Karate, and Psychology, and refined a method of mindful questioning. Rabois has also been the Head Instructor for Hidy Ochiai’s Karate of Ithaca for 18 years. He first learned about Zen meditation in a lecture and meditation session with Philip Kapleau Roshi, author of The Three Pillars of Zen, in October, 1968. He furthered his study of meditation and mindfulness at Namgyal Institute for Tibetan Studies, and at The Omega Institute with Robert Thurman, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, David Loy and others. Ira Rabois continues to study the mind and life. He and his wife, Linda, live outside Ithaca, NY, in an old apple orchard."
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