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Sit & Dharma Talk with Long-time SIM Community Member, Laura Rosenthal

September 29, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

Faith and Challenges/Sustaining Practice

In the Insight Meditation tradition as practiced at SIM, faith is an experiential quality of engagement rather than doctrinaire adherence to a top-down belief system. And obstacles to practice, however unwelcome they may feel, are the field of practice through which we learn about our own minds and the path away from “suffering” (the experience of “unsatisfactoriness”). Join Laura Rosenthal, a long-time SIM participant, for a group discussion about how we sustain our engagement with practice in the face of the obstacles, many of them self-generated, that we encounter. Laura will set the stage with a very brief overview of faith and “the hindrances” as well as basic principles of “dharma dialog,” and will then facilitate a group discussion. We will sit in a circle to support active listening and sharing.
Laura is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners’ Program. She is currently participating in Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioners’ Program and Heather Sundberg’s Committed Students’ Program.

Details

Date:
September 29, 2016
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
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Organizer

Sacramento Insight Meditation
Email
info@sactoinsight.org
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Venue

Friends Meeting House
890 57th Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-3327 United States
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Details

Date:
September 29, 2016
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Event Categories:
,

Organizer

Sacramento Insight Meditation
Email
info@sactoinsight.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Friends Meeting House
890 57th Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-3327 United States
+ Google Map
View Venue Website