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 there are all these different things that draw us to a spiritual life or practice.

But when you get right down to it, they also bring us back to one of the great questions,

which is, who am I? what am I supposed to do here what am I

doing as a human being who am I or what am I? Is another way to ask it.

And I was talking to some of these neuroscientists who are friends,

Ritchie Davidson Cliff, Saron, and others others said the thing I'd really like you to

study is the question of identity. How is it that we take our particular point of view,

our tribe, our small group, or whatever, and say,

this is me, all the Republicans or all the Democrats

or the libertarians or the, you know,

whatever you identify with, the golfers, right? Or the feminists or the whatever it is, you know. And

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