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Steady in Your Seat: Celebrating the Buddha's Birth, Awakening and Death

5/8/2020

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By Anushka Fernandopulle, Guest Teacher

The Full Moon of May is celebrated as the day of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death anniversary. In many Buddhist countries it is a weeklong celebration involving radical acts of generosity and joy. We will explore some of the stories of the Buddha's life and what they can teach us as contemporary practitioners during a global pandemic. 

Join Anushka on MONDAY, May 11, 7:15pm for this Dharma Talk.
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Anushka Fernandopulle has trained in Buddhist meditation for over 30 years, primarily Vipassana or Insight Meditation (the source of secular Mindfulness). After studying Buddhism at Harvard, she spent four years in full-time meditation training in the US, India and Sri Lanka. She was invited to teach Dharma in 1998 and later went through a four year meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and other leading Western Buddhist meditation teachers. She joined the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2011. Her work has been featured in publications like Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, Turning Wheel, Inquiring Mind, as well as on her blog on the Huffington Post about dharma and politics.
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