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.

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So for this evening, this quality. For this

quality again to come back to of simplicity and sympathy

start with a few lines from Walt Whitman where he writes,

and I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,

and I find letters from the divine dropped in the street

and everyone assigned by God's name, and to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times and there is no trade or

employment but the young man following it may become a hero and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral dressed in his

shroud. So he's speaking of the amazingness of the universe and without sympathy we lose touch with that amazing quality.

Being up in the Sieres at this family camp, one of the things that's there is there's a big lake for swimming.

And the little kids are, spend a lot of their time with dip nets along the edge of the lake,

froging, mostly trying to catch tadpoles, which they put in their buckets.

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