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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dot com slash Jack. And I guess I want to first start because it's what I don't know what you would call it

Easter Monday or something like that. It's the Monday after Easter and it's

insanely wild spring out there from all that thankful March rain. And of course

Easter and Passover and all of the various kind of spring holidays with the eggs and the bunnies and things are really the ancient archetypal celebration of the renewal of life, of the fertility of life and the

rebirth after a long winter.

And one of the questions is how do you navigate death and rebirth?

Because there's a way in which we're all

dying and being reborn all the time.

I had the opportunity after a retreat recently

to drive back into Woodacre.

I now live in Fairfax to the house,

which I had helped create, and where I lived for 30 years.

And it was kind of wild looking at it. It's lovely.

A young couple are there who are about to have kids and it's the perfect place for that

we raised our daughter and I thought well that was a life wasn't it and it's all

gone you know and actually only a few people even remember what happened

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