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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Thank you for your generous attention.

In coming to a retreat, whether you've just arrived or you've been here for the last four weeks, each of

us in some way carries, the Buddha did our own questions about life and the

mystery of being incarnated in the human body, this kind of wild thing that

happened to us. In one of history's more unlikely acts of totalitarianism, the Chinese government in 2009 banned

Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.

According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs,

the law which went into effect a year and a half ago strictly stipulates the procedure

by which one is to reincarnate and is, quote, an important move to institutionalize management of

reincarnation.

This is true.

So that's one way to approach our human predicament, if you will. But there is a kind of question

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