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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In the Buddhist teachings, there are two directions within which we can approach our spiritual life.

One is, if you will, from the bottom up, the kind of climbing the mountain direction in which you feel that you are unworthy and notice all of your defects and faults and try to change and purify and transform and make

yourself better and I don't know who said it. There's a certain type of person in whose

mind the divine is always mixed up with dieting and vitamins and things like that.

There's some, Alan Watts called it religion as a grim duty somehow that you're going to sign of fix yourself.

And that's kind of an exaggeration, but there's a certain attitude of trying to change and develop.

And a whole other spirit. trying to change and develop.

And a whole other spirit, which is equally prevalent,

and I think for our time, very important,

is the understanding of a fundamental wakefulness and compassion that is your true nature

and that the mind or the heart is luminous as the Buddha, but it gets caught, obscured like the fog

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