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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks and be fully vaccinated against covid19\, which at this time means having received the covid bivalent booster no less than two weeks before the event. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks and be fully vaccinated against covid19\, which at this time means having received the covid bivalent booster no less than two weeks before the event. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks and be fully vaccinated against covid19\, which at this time means having received the covid bivalent booster no less than two weeks before the event. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-20/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning.\n\n\nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us.\n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-03-24/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-03-27/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning.\n\n\nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us.\n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-04-07/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-10/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T100000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning.\n\n\nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us.\n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-04-21/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-22/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-24/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T181742
CREATED:20240328T012539Z
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON: Healing the Healer: Cultivating Healing Within and In Community (for BIPOC and people of multi-heritage)
DESCRIPTION:Healing the Healer: Cultivating Healing Within and In Community \nFor BIPOC and people of multi-heritage \nwith Melvin Escobar and Jonathan Relucio \nSaturday\, April 27th\, 2024\n10am-4pm Pacific Time \nIn person at EBMC (285 17th St\, Oakland CA 94612) \n  \nHealers and caregivers are invited to this workshop for a day of rest and renewal.\nJonathan and Melvin have over forty years combined experience doing social justice\nwork and will offer how the teachings in Buddhism and Yoga can connect us to the\nhealing that is possible in community. We will explore how to cultivate and build\nresilience and self-compassion so that we can continue to be of service to self and\nothers. \n \nAll registered participants will receive an EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nSpace will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) Please note: Teachers may be unmasked while teaching. \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nTeacher Bios \n \nMelvin Escobar is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center\, licensed\npsychotherapist\, and yoga instructor. He has walked the path of service for much of his life\, drawing on his experiences as a queer man of color from an immigrant working-class background. Melvin is driven by the desire to make wisdom teachings accessible in culturally relevant ways and continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing. \n \nFor a decade\, Jonathan Relucio taught trauma healing yoga\, meditation\, and\nmindfulness in urban schools\, mental health clinics and juvenile detention centers as\nSenior Trainer for Niroga Institute. He completed East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership (STL) Program and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness\, Yoga and Meditation Training; he is grateful to be a practitioner and teacher at both centers. Jonathan facilitates transformation in social justice movements with Rockwood Leadership Institute; integrates mindfulness with restorative circles for healing and racial equity; and is the co-founder of AllThriveEd.org.  With over 20 years of experience in social services\, community organizing\, training\, and leadership development\, Jonathan values yoga and Dharma as liberation practices that heal us from oppressive systems. \n  \nTo support the teachings of Jonathan and Melvin\, please do so via: \n–For Jonathan — \nPayPal: discaya@gmail.com \nVenmo: @JonathanRelucio\, https://www.venmo.com/u/JonathanRelucio \n–For Melvin — \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\, paypal.me/PAYPALmelvinescobar \nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\, https://www.venmo.com/u/Melvin-Escobar \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nThank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/in-person-healing-the-healer-cultivating-healing-within-and-in-community-for-bipoc-and-people-of-multi-heritage/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,In-Person Only
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-29/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning.\n\n\nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us.\n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-05-05/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T203000
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:Grieving While Queer \nAn Online Class Series with Tania Triana and Ream \n3 Thursday sessions: May 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th\, 2024 \n5:15 – 6:45 PM Pacific Time (Time Zone Converter) \nOpen to all who self-identify as queer \nClosed captions available \n  \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question:  what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belonging. \n \nTeacher Information \n \nDr. Tania Triana (she/they/ella/elle) is a member of the inaugural class of East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program\, and has served on EBMC’s Leadership Sangha (board of directors) since 2019. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community at EBMC. \n \nReam\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land\, working for over 25 years in the labor movement\, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \n\nPayPal: taniatriana@gmail.com\nVenmo: @Tania-Triana\n\nAll dana will be shared amongst the teachers. \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nThank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer-2/2024-05-16/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning.\n\n\nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us.\n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-05-19/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-22/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T171500
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:Grieving While Queer \nAn Online Class Series with Tania Triana and Ream \n3 Thursday sessions: May 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th\, 2024 \n5:15 – 6:45 PM Pacific Time (Time Zone Converter) \nOpen to all who self-identify as queer \nClosed captions available \n  \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question:  what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belonging. \n \nTeacher Information \n \nDr. Tania Triana (she/they/ella/elle) is a member of the inaugural class of East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program\, and has served on EBMC’s Leadership Sangha (board of directors) since 2019. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community at EBMC. \n \nReam\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land\, working for over 25 years in the labor movement\, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \n\nPayPal: taniatriana@gmail.com\nVenmo: @Tania-Triana\n\nAll dana will be shared amongst the teachers. \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nThank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer-2/2024-05-23/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240527T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240527T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T181742
CREATED:20240513T051433Z
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SUMMARY:HYBRID Daylong: Ceasefire! Practice for Liberation with Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Ceasefire! Practice for Liberation with Palestine  \nHybrid Daylong \nWith Tania Triana\, Ream\, Andrés González\, Kimi Mojica\, and anuradha bhagwati \nMonday\, May 27th \n10 AM – 2 PM \nOpen to all \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nThis nourishing day of practice will hold space for the dharma of Palestinian Liberation. Across the world\, people are rising up in support of Palestine.  Many thousands of people gather every day\, taking action in the streets\, making calls and sending letters\, organizing their people and communities\, to practice with this call for land and freedom\, for respect for life and self-determination\, and an end to colonization and racism. We follow the call from Palestinians\, Jews and people of conscience across the world who say “Ceasefire Now.” \nThis ceasefire sangha daylong will offer you support and belonging to continue your work for a meaningful and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Through mindfulness practice with the full range of our experience\, internally and externally\, as well as sharing from the heart and working with the body to contact grief\, anger and love with compassion\, we intend to strengthen our community’s response to Palestine.   \nIn the streets we hear the chant\, “We are not freeing Palestine\, Palestine is freeing us.”  We know that the work of liberation happens at the individual\, collective\, and societal level. Our hearts are with Palestine at this time\, with gratitude for what we are learning about freedom in taking action to end the genocide in Gaza. We welcome you to practice together in community with us towards this freedom. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nTeacher Information \n \nDr. Tania Triana. Pronouns:  She/They/Ella/Elle is an educator\, activist\, and translator who began a Buddhist practice in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland. She currently serves on the Board of East Bay Meditation Center. Tania is a graduate of EBMC’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program. \n \nReam. Pronouns: They/Them is a queer organizer of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land\, working for over 25 years in the labor movement\, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland\, a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and leads “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioners” there\, and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics\, co-leading “Somatics for White Racial Justice Organizers.”  \n \nAndrés González. Pronouns: He/they/él/elle is a two-spirit Mestizo with primarily Yaqui\, Mexican\, Spanish\, & Scottish ancestries. He’s also a transracial adoptee\, connected to a lineage of indigenous adoptees separated from family\, land\, & culture by way of the U.S. child welfare system. Andrés’ lived experience walking between these many worlds has informed his path as a healer and Dharma teacher. Trained as a psychotherapist\, he holds a masters degree in social work. He is also a graduate of EBMC’s two-year Spiritual Teacher & Leadership Training and is presently participating in the 2023-2024 certificate program in psychedelic facilitation at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Weaving the sacred traditions of Theravada & Mahayana Buddhism with his ancestral curanderismo lineage\, Andrés brings a wide-range of practices & perspectives into his healing-justice work with individuals & communities. He now resides on Yokuts’ land (aka Bakersfield\, CA).  \n \nAs a dedicated practitioner of meditation since 2003\, Kimi Mojica first walked into the doors of EBMC’s POC Sangha in 2007\, and has considered EBMC as one of their spiritual and political homes ever since. Their commitment to racial\, gender and healing justice is evident through the dynamic ways they hold space and process as a storyteller\, facilitator\, trainer\, coach\, and conflict transformation practitioner. Kimi loves creating and exploring liberatory practices in everyday life\, and within the context of sangha building. \nKimi is a graduate of Commit2Dharma\, and is a proud member of EBMC’s inaugural Spiritual Teacher and Leadership (STL) Training. They have previously served as a Leadership Sangha Board Chair\, and a coordinating member of the Restorative Practices for Dharma Practitioners (RPDP) practice group. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Kimi currently lives in Oakland\, CA/Ohlone Territory. They believe in the power of creativity and imagination\, and can often be found grooving to music\, being surrounded by nature\, or geeking out on somatics and martial arts. \n \nanuradha bhagwati (she/her) is a disabled\, queer\, indian-american activist\, policy advocate\, and writer. She is the critically acclaimed author of Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience and the award-winning co-founder and first executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network. A former United States Marine Corps officer\, anuradha helped lead national campaigns to open ground combat positions to women and to stop military sexual assault and harassment. She found her way to her dharma roots as a way of healing from military-related violence. anuradha taught trauma-informed hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation to veterans in New York City for over a decade\, and is a long-time practitioner of Theravadan Buddhism. She is committed to cultivating an anti-colonial warrior practice based on love\, compassion\, equity and justice. She is the founder of Decolonial Dharma\, and facilitates both the Buddhists for Justice in Palestine and Disability Solidarity practice groups. anuradha is currently at work on a book about mental health\, disability\, and life with her rollicking service dog and guide\, Duke.\n\n  \nCost: The teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and our efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers. \n\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-daylong-ceasefire-practice-for-liberation-with-palestine/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T181742
CREATED:20240423T225650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T225650Z
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: How Have the Buddha's Teachings Helped Me?
DESCRIPTION:How Have the Buddha’s Teachings Helped Me? \nWith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid \nWednesday May 29\, 2024  6:30 – 8:30 pm PST \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month curriculum \n  \nFor those who have taken either some or all of EBMC’s 7-month “Buddhist Core Teachings” in Jan – May 2024\, this is a wrap–up class where you can bring your “biggest” Buddhist questions\, meet Dharma companions on the Path\, and rejoice in the merit you have generated! Please note: The focus of his class is on what you are doing to deepen your spiritual practice and to transform your life through these wisdom teachings. We’ll offer a toast with our favorite beverages! \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-how-have-the-buddhas-teachings-helped-me-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T184500
DTSTAMP:20260415T181742
CREATED:20240423T040624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T040624Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:Grieving While Queer \nAn Online Class Series with Tania Triana and Ream \n3 Thursday sessions: May 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th\, 2024 \n5:15 – 6:45 PM Pacific Time (Time Zone Converter) \nOpen to all who self-identify as queer \nClosed captions available \n  \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question:  what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belonging. \n \nTeacher Information \n \nDr. Tania Triana (she/they/ella/elle) is a member of the inaugural class of East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program\, and has served on EBMC’s Leadership Sangha (board of directors) since 2019. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community at EBMC. \n \nReam\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land\, working for over 25 years in the labor movement\, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \n\nPayPal: taniatriana@gmail.com\nVenmo: @Tania-Triana\n\nAll dana will be shared amongst the teachers. \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nThank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer-2/2024-05-30/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T181742
CREATED:20240516T015814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T015814Z
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: 4 Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n  \nHYBRID \nWednesdays June 5\, 12\, 26 & July 3\, 2024  \n(NOTE: no class on June 19th/Juneteenth) \n6:30 – 8:30PM PT 6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color)? It is said that the Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. \nTogether we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. \nDharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-4-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2024-06-05/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: 4 Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n  \nHYBRID \nWednesdays June 5\, 12\, 26 & July 3\, 2024  \n(NOTE: no class on June 19th/Juneteenth) \n6:30 – 8:30PM PT 6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color)? It is said that the Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. \nTogether we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. \nDharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-4-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2024-06-12/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Coming Home to Liberation: A Daylong with Palestine for White Practitioners
DESCRIPTION:Coming Home to Liberation: A Daylong with Palestine for White Practitioners \nJewish\, non-Jewish\, and all self-identified white people welcome \nwith JD Doyle\, Ream\, Allison Shore\, and Bernadine Mellis\n \n  \nSunday\, June 23rd 2024 \n12 – 4PM PT (Time Zone Converter) \nHYBRID on Zoom and in-person at EBMC \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nWe hear the call to Free Palestine and respond from our hearts. We know legacies of settler colonialism and racism are being undone by this freedom movement. How are we as white people willing to be changed by this call\, and what is needed now in our spiritual practice\, our work and lives\, in this time of rising up for land and liberation by people across the world\, inspired by Palestine. \n\n\nAs white people we know we have a responsibility to end the occupation of Palestine\, as we do to move in relationship to Land Back\, to the Movement for Black Lives and to all liberation movements that undo the legacies of supremacy. In this sacred time together we will explore what freedom feels like at the level of the body for people committed to Palestine\, who benefit from whiteness\, even as we act against it in the world. We will nourish our sense of intention\, belonging and capacity to hold contradictions as we act to be a force for good in this undoing. \nAs Jewish and non Jewish practitioners we will work with mindfulness\, embodiment and circle sharing to call in the protection and support of the buddhas\, elements and our ancestors for this work. There will be dharma reflection and sharing\, stationary and moving meditation\, and community support. \nWe welcome you to join us as you are\, with your broken heart\, your anger and your longings for a home in liberation. \nThis daylong holds the values of calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza\, that anti Zionism is not anti Semitism\, and that white people in the US have a role to play in ending the occupation of Palestine and that we need each other to do that. \nNOTE: There will be a 45-min break from 1:15-2:00 PM PT. \n\n\n\n\n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nCost \nThe teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and our efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers. \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) Please note: The teacher may be unmasked while teaching. \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n  \n\n\nTeacher Bios\n \n\n\n\nJD Doyle (they\,them) co-founded the East Bay Meditation Center’s LGBTQIA+(Alphabet) Sangha over 15 years ago and co-lead the first Buddhist meditation residential retreats for transgender\, nonbinary and gender expansive people. While JD is based in Oakland\, CA\, they offer meditation retreats and classes for many Buddhist Centers.  Their training includes: Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s retreat teacher training\, Community Dharma Leader training and the Dedicated Practitioner program. They’ve practiced Buddhism since 1995 in the U.S.\, Thailand\, and Burma. For over twenty years\, they worked as a public school teacher. JD identifies as genderqueer. They are committed to celebrating the diversity of our human sangha\, addressing the impact of racism on our communities\, expanding concepts of gender\, and living in ways that honor the sacredness of the Earth. \n\n\n\nFor more info: www.heartmindteaching.com \n \nReam\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land\, working for over 25 years in the labor movement\, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n\n\nAllison Shore.  Pronouns: She/Her. Allison has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 2003. A graduate of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Practicum at El Camino Hospital\, she also trained at the Sati Chaplaincy Training Program\, and is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock. Allison has taught in a variety of academic\, clinical\, and community settings\, and volunteers at a local hospital as an interfaith chaplain. Part of the Every Body Every Mind teaching team\, she is passionate about social justice\, and making dharma communities accessible for everyone. \n\n\n\n\n\nBernadine Mellis serves as a teacher and staff member at Insight Western Mass (IWM)\, where she has been generously nurtured and mentored over many years by members of the Teachers Council\, including Jean Esther and Tara Mulay\, among others. At IWM\, she co-facilitates White & Awakening in the Dharma\, the Queer & Trans Affinity Sangha\, and Saturday Sangha (for families and everyone)\, among other offerings. She completed her training as a Community Dharma Leader in 2022 through True North Insight. Bernadine is currently a participant in Sacred Mountain Sangha’s Dharmapala program and a student in Harvard Divinity School’s Buddhist Ministry Initiative\, where she studies with Charles Hallisey. Bernadine is of mixed Ashkenazi\, Sephardic\, and Irish ancestry.\n\n\n  \nGenerous Giving \nIn lieu of financial gifts to the teachers\, please consider donating to this event’s $150 fundraiser to support the Middle East Children’s Alliance. \nDONATION LINK \nThank you! \nLearn more about Middle East Children’s Alliance here.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-coming-home-to-liberation-a-daylong-with-palestine-for-white-practitioners/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: 4 Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n  \nHYBRID \nWednesdays June 5\, 12\, 26 & July 3\, 2024  \n(NOTE: no class on June 19th/Juneteenth) \n6:30 – 8:30PM PT 6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \n  \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color)? It is said that the Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. \nTogether we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. \nDharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nFor those wishing to practice in person\, space will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-4-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2024-06-26/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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