Thursday, December 3, 7:00-9:15 pm. Sitting and Dharma Talk, with Dennis Warren, SIM Founding Teacher.
LOSS – SEEING IT COMING, LIVING IT, REORGANIZING AFTERWARDS – WITH SIM’S FOUNDING TEACHER DENNIS WARREN

Loss brings us up against the limitations in understanding how the Dharma and practice apply to this painful aspect of being human. Loss not only helps, but forces us, to recognize where our understanding is conceptual or intellectual, rather than one that informs real life challenges.

How we respond to the losses in our individual lives, and losses in the lives of others, influences everything – how we experience the loss; how those around us experience the loss; how we reorganize our emotional, psychological and dharmic lives after the outward manifestations of the loss have taken place. Loss, and the way we work with it, change who we are.

This evening with SIM’s Founding Teacher, Dennis Warren, will examine this phenomenon that is one of the most common roots of difficult emotions and crisis. We’ll explore how loss fits into the framework of Buddhist psychology, the nature of loss and ways to work with it.

Please join us at 7:00 pm. The evening will take place at the Sacramento Friends Meetinghouse, 890 57th Street.