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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When Gina spoke last night about the nature of clinging to self, to me and mind the sense of

selfishness that we can experience and the possibility of not clinging.

It spoke from the very center of the teachings of the Buddha,

but really of the four noble truths of suffering in the world and the conditions

that create suffering and the possibility of freeing ourselves, which here we are now on the six or seventh day of our

practice together is in a certain way the underlying practice that we share. We come together here and we all

experience what the Buddha saw and what motivated his practice. We look at the world, we look at ourselves,

and if we look with the eyes of compassion, we can see how much confusion and sorrow can be created by us within our own experience or in the world around us.

And as you've been sitting and walking, my guess is there have been moments when you got caught

up in, if not lost in certain stories and by being identified and lost in them for a time also you felt the suffering of it.

A couple from Snowy, Minnesota decided to take a winter

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