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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So here we are.

Taking birth, human incarnation, 101, right?

But you get, you start over and over each time.

You kind of wish you could move to 102 or something like that,

but you forget a lot of what you might have learned if you believe

in another incarnation. But anyway, here you are, you're in the strange human body with the

tainted glory to use Oscar Wilde's phrase of humanity.

And we're going into the darkest time of the year, and there are two kinds of darkness.

There's the fertile darkness that is the pregnant void the darkness out of which all

things arise and are born. That's the darkness that contains the potential of creation.

And you know when the physicists talk about outer space and talk about if they can even find some area that doesn't have any physical

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