with Shahara Godfrey
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King
Working with judgments, and/ or a judgmental mind that are toxic can be liberating. The Buddha said, “All that we are is the results of what we have thought. What we think we become.” Making decisions and choices using wisdom and discernment are skills that are welcomed. What happens when our thoughts and actions bind us to more suffering?
Through exploring a heart practice, forgiveness work and tools that help see the patterns of the judgmental mind, this daylong will offer these tools to self-identified people of color. There will also be instructions in mindfulness, with dharma teaching, interactive exercises, and guided meditations. People are invited to stay for the entire day. Beginners are always welcome!
As the Buddha reminds us, “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”.
Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click HERE to register.
Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events. However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:
* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher.
Thank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.
Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.
EBMC is wheelchair accessible.
