Bodhipaksa is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. He is a meditation teacher and the founder of the online meditation center, Wildmind. He is a published author, whose most recent books were "This Difficult Thing of Being Human," published in November 2019, and "A Year of Buddha's Wisdom, published in December, 2021. Bodhipaksa was born and raised in Scotland, but now lives in New Hampshire.