About Andrew Weiss
Name: Andrew R. Weiss, J.D.
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Education: B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison; J.D., Boston College Law School.
Degree: Juris Doctor, 1977
Spiritual Counseling Training: Ordained Buddhist priest for over 15 years; clear-sighted counseling training for 5 years with Sharon Turner; ordained Reverend.
experience
Lawyer: Over 20 years of running his own private law practice in Massachusetts.
Spiritual Counselor: Over 20 years of training and experience in intuitive and spiritual counseling.
Other:  Author, Beginning Mindfulness; meditation and spiritual development teacher.
 
 
Andrew R. Weiss, J.D.
Andrew Weiss’ training and experience make him uniquely suited to being Justice Spirit’s goal and intent.  He is not only an experienced attorney and a long-time mindfulness meditation and spiritual development student and teacher, he is also a trained and experienced clear-sighted counselor.
 
Andrew received his law degree from Boston College Law School and engaged in the general civil practice of law in Massachusetts from 1998 through 2002.  He is also admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court and the United States District Court for Massachusetts.  His law practice focused on issues affecting families, children and small businesses and non-profit organizations.  Andrew also did extensive mediation work: he received his mediation training from CDR Associates and mediated over 50 cases during his law career.
 
Andrew is the author of Beginning Mindfulness: Learning the Way of Awareness and a long-time meditation student and teacher, deeply grounded in the Buddhist mindfulness tradition. His early studies of Zen-based mindfulness were in the Korean tradition with Zen Master Seung Sanh and Zen Master Su Bong. In 1989 he met the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and in 1991, he was ordained a Brother in Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing. In 1999, he was ordained by zen priest Claude AnShin Thomas in the White Plum Lineage of Japanese Soto Zen.  To these studies he has added significant practice and study in the esoteric and Hindu traditions.
 
Andrew began his exploration of intuitive counseling in 1985, when he began studying with Eleanore Moore of Peterborough, New Hampshire.  He began seeing clients privately in 1986 and furthered his studies with Sharon Turner in her Awakenings wellness training program.  Sharon also introduced Andrew to Christian mysticism and Native American spirituality.
 
Andrew regularly teaches mindfulness meditation and Advanced Spiritual Development at Unity Church of the Triangle in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the former instructor of mindfulness practice and client management at the New England School of Whole Health Education, where he also served as Dean of Students. His eclectic background includes education and training as an optician.  He is also the president of Zaltho Foundation, a Zen Buddhist church founded by Claude AnShin Thomas and dedicated to the eradication of violence and neglect worldwide.
 
Andrew lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Avril Rama Bell, herself a long-time student of Siddha Yoga meditation, a metaphysical teacher and the founder of Crystal-Clear Coaching, and their two Tibetan Spaniels, Sunny and Skye.
 
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