Crystal Johnson’s Gratitude Story: Practices for Liberation
In this week’s Season Of Gratitude, Leadership Sangha member and teacher Crystal Johnson reflects on how practices for liberation require tackling the messy… EBMC is a place that challenges and holds […]
Cultivating Spiritual Freedom… by Challenging Capitalism
Dear Sangha Family,Can you envision a world beyond capitalism?For us, it starts with the Buddha’s first teaching that generosity is an essential component of spiritual freedom. When you visit or support EBMC, […]
From René Rivera: My Journey from Chaos to Refuge
From protests in San Francisco to the cushion at EBMC, Sangha member and teacher René Rivera shares their journey finding a place of refuge for our Season Of Gratitude: By […]
Gratitude Story from Melvin Escobar: Growing and Healing from Trauma
In this week’s Season Of Gratitude, EBMC Sangha member and teacher Melvin Escobar shares his experience with the potential to transform trauma through connection in Sangha: In this week’s Season […]
Gratitude Story from emiko yoshikami: How EBMC transformed my broken pieces
Dear Sangha, We are grateful and thrilled to announce that a generous Sangha member has offered to match all gifts to EBMC, up to $10,000! Between now and the end […]
Where to buy respirator masks: regularly updated list
Sangha, let’s take care of one another! Here’s a regularly updated list of where you can find respirator masks in the Bay Area. Thank you to CompassPoint for guiding us […]
White Awakening and Sangha
Six Session Program for White Practitioners January 27 – June 2, 2019 (Applications due December 1, 2018) EBMC’s White and Awakening in Sangha (WAS), is designed to build the awareness […]
Want to increase diversity in the neuroscience of meditation?
Participate in the first community-based neuroscience study between EBMC and UCSF called the EMBODY study. We are making strides to make this the most inclusive neuroscience study of meditation to […]
Seeking new EBMC board members! Oct. 22 deadline
We’re seeking new #EBMC board of directors members! Want to help make social justice movement and socially-engaged Buddhist history? Applications due Oct. 22 for the amazing, diverse East Bay Meditation Center Leadership […]
Announcing EBMC’s New Half-year Radical Buddhism Leadership Program for People of Color!
We are excited to announce EBMC’s newest program: “Resilience, Refuge and (R)evolution” a six month Radical Buddhism leadership program for self-identified People of Color that begins in January of 2019. […]
