The Way of the Bodhisattva - Mindfulness of Phenomena & Sharing Merit

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☀️ Eve is currently teaching weekly from "No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva", the writings of Shanti Deva with commentary by Pema Chödrön, instructions for living with an open heart when the world is on fire.

Eve began with a sit revisiting the 3 precious pills of Wangyal Rinpoche: finding stillness through the body, silence, & finding the natural quality of the mind: open and warm, already infused with compassion.

Next we began reading chapter 4 of "No Time to Lose." While chapters 1-3 focused on Bodhicitta, chapters 4-6 pivot to discussing the Paramitas. Eve reads from chapter 4 and focusses on cultivating intelligent attention, recognize pain and skillfully engaging with it, including working with the Kleshas, mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in unwholesome actions.

☀️ Well of Being happens every Wednesday at 7 pm PT at the SF Dharma Collective - https://sfdharmacollective.org/events....

Join us at 2929 24th Street in San Francisco OR online.

☀️ Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, is the director of training at the Greater Good Science Center. She is also a UC Berkeley- and UCSF-trained social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has had meaningful collaborations with her father, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman. Their most recent project, The Atlas of Emotions, is an online visual tool to teach a language for improving our emotional awareness that was commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama. Eve is the co-lead instructor for Cultivating Emotional Balance, an evidence-based meditation and emotion regulation training developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.

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