with Mushim

Half-day retreat for committed practitioners

Does strong equanimity make us boring and apathetic? Excitement, speed, and intense emotions and opinions can be highly pleasurable. So why did the Buddha teach the importance of Equanimity as the foundation for wise loving kindness, compassion, and empathetic joy? We’ll explore dwelling in upekkha (equanimity) close and up front in this half day retreat for committed practitioners. Meditation, Dharma talks, and community dialogue.

A “committed practitioner” is one who does not need instructions in sitting or walking/movement meditation, but who already has an established practice of any kind of meditation that can be done in silence and, during the sitting meditation periods, in stillness.

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click here or the link below to register.

http://eastbaymeditation.org/ebmcreg/?event=feb17committed

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events.  However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process)
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher

Thank you for your generosity.  EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

EBMC is wheelchair accessible.