Lodro Rinzler

Lodro Rinzler is a Buddhist meditation teacher and the award-winning author of eight books, including the international bestseller The Buddha Walks into a Bar and, most recently, You Are Good, You Are Enough. He has taught meditation for 25 years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Good Morning America, CBS and NBC. SONIMA named him one of 50 Innovators Shaping the Future of Wellness.

He grew up in New York City in a Buddhist household and began meditating at six. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche gave him the name Lodro. As a teenager he sat long retreats, including a silent month-long monastic retreat, and at 18 his mentors encouraged him to pursue a teacher training program. He went on to found Buddhist House at Wesleyan University and, after college, served as Executive Director of Boston's largest meditation center.

Across the following years he led workshops at meditation centers and college campuses, wrote books (Walk Like a Buddha and The Buddha Walks into the Office both received Independent Publisher Book Awards, and Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times followed), and co-founded MNDFL Meditation studios in New York City. He also launched Buddhist Immersion and Teacher Training programs for people who want to make meditation accessible to others. He has spoken at conferences, universities and businesses including Google, Meta, Harvard University, Capitol Hill and the White House.

Today his main teaching happens weekly with The Basic Goodness Collective, his online community, where he offers classes on subjects such as the lojong slogans and engaged Buddhism, as well as retreats and meditation coaching. Publishers Weekly described his writing as blending humor with Buddhist koans, with subtle moments of vulnerability. He is based in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife, Adreanna Limbach, their daughter and their animals.