Retreat After the Election

with Nelly Kaufer and Linda Modaro

Nov 8, Friday at 5 pm PST – Nov 10, Sunday at 5 pm PST

Online via Zoom — Link will be sent after registration

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Our upcoming US election is consequential. We intentionally planned this retreat to be a holding environment for potentially strong emotions and reactions to the outcome of this election.

Meditation creates a holding environment, one where we’re relatively still with the contents of our bodymind and, over time, develop the capacity to ‘hold’ more internally. There’s a classical Buddhist image of the archetypal bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, with a thousand arms. While we’ll never grow a thousand arms, we’re developing the capacity to hold more.

Sangha creates a supportive environment in which skillful means are nurtured. Upaya (skillful means) is a concept emphasizing that meditators use their own specific methods or techniques that fit the situation in order to “awaken”. In Reflective Meditation we consider “waking up” as a process of developing awareness and wisdom, together with others.

By offering a retreat at this time: you’ll have the time and space to meditate and share your experience, and reflect about the way you relate to the political landscape in real time. Practice makes skillful, not perfection.

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