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.

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Thank you for your generous attention.

It's a very tender time in the retreat at this point.

There's a sense of opening that we experience with you as we meet with you and in the

hall here an opening to the 10,000 joys and the 10,000 sorrows. And as it said, not just to the question of

the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity, that there's something timeless that opens as the mind

gets quiet, the heart softens.

And it's really an opening to liberation.

The passage I believe I used in the first evening talk that I gave where the Buddhist says not insight nor

concentration nor virtue nor any particular state is the goal of this practice, nor the absence of any

particular state or the absence of virtue or inside or concentration.

But beyond these, the sure hearts release, the liberated heart, This is the reason, the purpose, the vision

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