In a world that often feels like it's teetering on the edge, it's not surprising that so many of us grapple with feelings of instability and overwhelm.

On Tuesday, December 19th, join acclaimed Buddhist meditation teachers Sharon Salzburg and Ethan Nicktern for a free online conversation on staying grounded, available, and engaged even when the world is on fire.

Ethan and Sharon will also discuss the upcoming darmamoon year-long Buddhist studies program

and offer their insights on how studying Buddhism can help us show up more fully for ourselves and others during these challenging times.

Visit darmamamoon.com slash event for more info and reserve your free spot. Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour, we are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common

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So again, let yourself sit comfortably and at ease and listen not so much to remember what's said but at

best to recognize if something some part of it resonates with what you already know in your own heart to be true.

I feel grateful just to be able to come and sit quietly with everyone in a culture that is so

maddeningly busy for most of us. This from our National Poet Laureate of last year,

W.S. Merwin, he writes writes, little breath, breathe me gently, row me gently, for I am a river I am learning

to cross. And we see it in this very simple way with our humanity and our mystery of

incarnation and feel the breath, the life breath that we inter-breathe with the trees

and the Amazon and the breezes that

come off the ocean all the way from Tahiti and other places across the Pacific.

And just take the other places across the Pacific,

and just take the time to listen to ourselves,

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