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 continues to discuss the important idea of merit in Buddhism. What is merit and why are we giving it away? How can we transform how we relate to "our" things - possessions, successes, and even our body.
We practice with mindfulness of phenomena to bring calm and spaciousness, working with each of our sense portals.
We continue reading chapter 3 of the book, discussing the idea of Shenpa, loosening the grip, abandoning everything for a greater joy, and what it means to truly give all merit away for the well-being of other beings.
☀️ Well of Being happens every Wednesday at 7 pm PT at the SF Dharma Collective - sfdharmacollec....
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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☀️ Join us next time in real time at the SFDC, 2929 24th Street @ Alabama in the Mission of San Francisco, or online. SFDharmaCollective.org

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This came up for me just as I am beginning to study Thinley Norbu's White Sail.
It fits beautifully.
Thank you! 🫀❤️