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Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

What is the narrative that the mind is experiencin

What is the narrative that the mind is experiencing in this moment?
How does this experience of the mind help you know your heart?

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Quote by Mark Nunberg Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“In a way the simple answer to “what is mind?” is "this is mind.”

I may be looking at my computer. I may be imagining people are out there. I may be feeling the cool air of the air conditioner. But all of this is being is known in the mind. This experience of being a human being is always an experience of mind.”

This quote is from the Common Ground Meditation CenterYoutube Channel, video titled “Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Mind with Mark Nunberg Week 1”

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Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

We’ve moved this event to a bigger space to acco

We’ve moved this event to a bigger space to accommodate demand! Join us for this daylong retreat with Lama Rod. All levels of experience welcome and priced on sliding scale $0-$75. For more info visit our website.
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The world is unsteady and chaotic. Many of us who are on the front lines of change and liberation work are being confronted with the reality of burnout, hopelessness, and despair. In the face of all this, it is hard to maintain our physical and emotional balance.

Resiliency is such an important skill to develop right now. Resiliency is about how well we can meet the challenges of our lives and the work of collective liberation with a sense of openness and curiosity that helps us to regain our balance. Balance means understanding how to return to a sense of being grounded in order to meet challenges directly.

Join Lama Rod in this daylong workshop as we explore healing and resiliency through meditation, breath practice, gentle movement, visualizations, and group discussions.

Where do you need relational healing? How can you

Where do you need relational healing?
How can you be compassionate to others with similar relational wounds?

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Quote by Deborah Eden Tull (@mindfullivingrevolution
), Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“There is such a large hole in the fabric of human relationship right now. ...Each of us who has a practice has an incredible opportunity to, as part of our own awakening, wake up to our participation the healing of that hole.”

This quote is from the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society Youtube Channel, video titled “Deborah Eden Tull - Dharma Talk on Self Aggrandizement & Self Deprecation”

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Still spots available to join this retreat place o

Still spots available to join this retreat place of refuge during the holidays, with a focus on community, compassion and mindfulness. We will cultivate a practice of mindfulness and discover ways of accessing compassion during this time of year. We’ll experience meditation, music, movement, silence, community discussions and more. Learn and practice foundational skills to bring awareness and warmth to ourselves and others. Compassion and self-compassion involve responding to difficult moments with kindness, empathy and understanding so that we soothe and comfort ourselves and others when we’re hurting… Being both mindful and compassionate leads to greater ease and well-being in our daily lives.

This retreat welcomes all self-identified LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, and beyond) persons for an opportunity to engage in supportive practices that encourage nurturing, healing and connection to self and others. We will bring together periods of silence and inner practice with teachings on cultivating mindfulness and compassion.

New and seasoned practitioners are welcome. Invite your friends to sign up!

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Live from Southern Dharma with Fresh Lev White Mon

Live from Southern Dharma with Fresh Lev White
Monday, December 5th: 7:30 - 9pm

Southern Dharma has expanded its program offerings to include live sessions with local Dharma teachers, as well as offerings from our residential retreat teachers. Live from Southern Dharma is offered to the public on a dāna (generosity) basis, and there is no fee for registration. Donations for the teacher are greatly appreciated.

We will be joined on Monday, December 5th by Fresh "Lev" White who will have just co-led our annual LGBTQIA+ retreat with Eve Decker. The topic for the evening of teaching and practice will be "Practicing Transitioning with Presence: Preparing for the Winter Solstice."

The in-person session will take place at Urban Dharma, 697-C Haywood Road. Masks are optional at this time. Online participation in each session is limited to the first 100 users to join the call. RSVPs are requested but not required.

Check our bio for RSVP link!

Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how unconditional love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to honoring and understanding others; thus, healing our communities and our planet. Lev is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev also offers secular mindfulness and non-secular meditation and talks on Compassion in both corporate and private settings. He credits his ability to reach and connect with diverse audiences to his years growing up in and around various communities in New York, D.C. and San Francisco.

Where are there still fragments of blame, pain, an

Where are there still fragments of blame, pain, and wounding in your life?
How can you bring some forgiveness to those places?

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Quote by Dave Smith, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“When we're talking about forgiveness from a Buddhist perspective, forgiveness is part of compassion. Forgiveness is really about letting go of the old blame, pain, wound, and so it's really helpful to know that forgiveness is actually an act of compassion. And ultimately an act of compassion for ourselves.”

This quote is from the Dave Smith’s Website www.davesmithdharma.org from an audio recording titled “Forgiveness”.

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Is there anger you need to acknowledge? How can yo

Is there anger you need to acknowledge?
How can you take good care of your anger in such a way that both the grief and anger feel safe to come out skillfully?

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Quote by Fresh Lev White, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“It's great when we are aware that we are angry and we accept that we are angry so we're not passively taking our anger out on someone else. Being aware of it is important and often below the anger is the grief.”

This quote is from the East Bay Meditation Center: People of Color Sangha Youtube Channel, Video titled “Fresh Lev White: How Do We Prepare in the Midst of the Storm?”

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
.
We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Where does beign self-serving show up in your life

Where does beign self-serving show up in your life?
Are there places to turn foolish self-serving behaviors into wise self-serving behaviors?

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Quote by Eve Decker, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“Buddha said there are two ways to be self serving: the wise way and the foolish way. The foolish way is to grab everything for yourself and be cruel and greedy and selfish. The wise way to serve yourself is to be generous and kind.”

This quote is from the Eve Decker on Northern Spirit Radio, Wisconsin, Show Name: Song of the Soul, Air Date: 3/8/2015

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Where was the last time you received unconditional

Where was the last time you received unconditional love and unconditional giving?
How did that unconditional love and giving ripple through your life?

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Quote by John Orr, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

"When people relate to us with that unconditional love and unconditional giving and how that so deeply touches all of us. It ignites that generosity inside or ourselves. It ignites that love and compassion inside of ourselves. It's all there inside of us."

This quote is from the Heartwood Refuge Media Youtube Channel, the video is titled John Orr "Grateful for This Journey of Dharma" 7-15-18

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

What experiences do you catch yourself chasing? Ho

What experiences do you catch yourself chasing?
How can you become your most profound insight?

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Quote by Rodney Smith, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“We chase an experience because it's the only way we know the world. It's the only way we think the world can get in. [E]very insight or revelation we've had still speaks within you. You just have to go to it with complete openness. Innocence. Don’t try to conceptualize it and let intellect tell you what it was. Go to it. Become it. Be it. Let it express now, your way forward.”

This quote is from Dharma Seed with an audio titled “Resolving Distance” Dated 2022-05-26

#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Due to a change in Deborah Eden Tull's schedule, w

Due to a change in Deborah Eden Tull's schedule, we are unfortunately cancelling this Monday's Live from Southern Dharma session. We will provide an update when we are able to get this event back on the calendar.

How have you noticed your independence today? Can

How have you noticed your independence today?
Can you pinpoint the moment it’s risen and fallen away?

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Quote by Mary Aubry, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

“Sometimes we take ourselves to be independent. But there are causes and conditions to every moment, and they arise and go away and our sense of self rises and goes away with them.”

This quote is from Insight Meditation Community of Washington Youtube Channel, titled “Dharma Talk: The Noble Eightfold Path”

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#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
.
We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Join Southern Dharma for a special book release an

Join Southern Dharma for a special book release and evening of practice on Monday, October 17th with Deborah Eden Tull in honor of her new title, "Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown" (Shambhala, 2022). The session will begin at 7:30pm and take place at Urban Dharma, 697-C Haywood Road.

Deborah Eden Tull will be leading her first residential retreat with Southern Dharma in late June/early July 2023. Subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) to receive the full 2023 calendar of retreats in our next newsletter. Eden, the founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author, and spiritual activist. She spent seven years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and offers retreats, workshops, and consultations internationally. Eden teaches Buddha dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world.

To learn more about her and her teachings, please visit deborahedentull.com.

Have you labeled your distractions today? Do you n

Have you labeled your distractions today?
Do you notice they trend toward the past or the future?
What is one small way you can shift yourself back to the present moment?

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Quote by Leigh Brasington, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

You get distracted. It's no big deal. What's useful is label your distraction. That helps you disidentify with it and also can give you insight into where your mind habitually goes. Does it go to the past? Does it go to the future? Notice how seldom you get distracted into the present. Isn't that odd since that's all there is?

This quote is from Contemplative Sciences Center UVA Youtube Channel, titled " Jhanas - Buddhist Meditative Absorptions in Modern Times.
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#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
.
We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼