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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And what I'd like to speak about tonight is some of the aspects of wisdom in a traditional way that's taught in the

Buddhist world. My teacher Ajansha who is this very wonderful and quite happy human being, with whom I studied

in the forest monasteries of Thailand for some years.

And no matter what kind of things happen,

all the vicissitudes of running a large monastery

and actually being the avid in the end of a hundred two hundred

monasteries he was this person who had a gracious easy joyful way of being when things were

good and when things were difficult.

And one day somebody asked if he could explain that and he held up a cup that he had, someone

had given him this beautiful old Ming Dynasty Chinese cop that was quite wonderful

And he held it up and he said to me this is already broken

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