Midterms: yikes.
Super El Niño: double yikes.
Just going to work or looking for work tomorrow: yikes times 3 ... times 10?
Or maybe it will all be okay.
If you're feel you might be buckling under the weight of the world, you're not alone. Between intense social uncertainty and deep ecological change not to mention the daily anxieties of just living, working, and relating in the modern world, moments of overwhelm are understandable. How can we be centered, stable and well amidst so much that is exactly not that?
Usually, our instinct is to fight back, freeze up, or numb out. But what if the deepest relief doesn't come from any kind of escape, but from changing how we meet all these experiences? Tonight, we aren't going to explore collective resilience or organize political readiness (but please do that!). Tonight we'll go to the root: looking closely, intentionally, and directly at the nature of awareness itself. We'll explore how any kind of response we offer to ourselves and the world can, for real, emerge from a self that is centered, stable and deeply well.
I hope you can join us, in person or online, as we open to the profound possibilities when we examine the true nature of awareness.
Super El Niño: double yikes.
Just going to work or looking for work tomorrow: yikes times 3 ... times 10?
Or maybe it will all be okay.
If you're feel you might be buckling under the weight of the world, you're not alone. Between intense social uncertainty and deep ecological change not to mention the daily anxieties of just living, working, and relating in the modern world, moments of overwhelm are understandable. How can we be centered, stable and well amidst so much that is exactly not that?
Usually, our instinct is to fight back, freeze up, or numb out. But what if the deepest relief doesn't come from any kind of escape, but from changing how we meet all these experiences? Tonight, we aren't going to explore collective resilience or organize political readiness (but please do that!). Tonight we'll go to the root: looking closely, intentionally, and directly at the nature of awareness itself. We'll explore how any kind of response we offer to ourselves and the world can, for real, emerge from a self that is centered, stable and deeply well.
I hope you can join us, in person or online, as we open to the profound possibilities when we examine the true nature of awareness.
In-person: Tonight, 7:00 to 8:30pm @ Yoga District — 1910 14th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC (please try to arrive at least 10 min. early)
Online via Zoom: Join here
Yours In Sangha,
Kristin
https://downtowndharmadc.org
Kristin Barker
Pronouns she, her and hers
Supported by the Potomac River watershed, traditional lands of the Piscataway.
Supported by the Potomac River watershed, traditional lands of the Piscataway.
No mud, no lotus.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
https://www.downtowndharmadc.org/
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