with Spring Washam & Friends 

All are invited to come out and celebrate the release of Spring Washam’s long awaited book! This will be a community celebration. In A Fierce Heart, Washam shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha’s 2,500-year-old teachings with powerfully written chapters that get to the heart of mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Woven throughout the book are stories from the author’s life, family, and community, along with many soulful, heartfelt stories from all over the world. Washam’s teachings truly focus on strength, courage and wisdom, making the Dharma welcoming to as large and wide a community as possible. Anyone who has suffered will benefit from the life-saving teachings of this charismatic teacher. Her humor, enthusiasm, and energy are a balm.  

This joyful celebration will include delicious vegetarian appetizers, live music, readings from the book, and lot’s of fun! 

6:30pm – 7:30pm (Refreshments) 

7:30pm 8:30pm (Book reading & Dharma Reflections) 

8:30pm – Hangout & book signings 

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

https://eastbaymeditation.org/ebmcreg/?event=dec17fierceheart

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 to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* 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.