Guest teacher Mandar Apte explored one of the central dilemmas of our time: how do we stay hopeful and take meaningful action in a world overwhelmed by violence, division, and despair?
Wednesday Meditations and Talks on:
Buddhist Teachings
Meditation + Talk: Key Steps in Your Personal Growth Journey
Discover six key turning points on the path of practice—from calming the mind to letting go of craving—and come home to the peaceful strength already inside you.
Meditation + Talk: The Quiet Strength You Already Have Inside
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or like you’re not enough? Learn how to stop striving, trust your inner wisdom, and tap into the quiet strength already in you.
Meditation + Talk: Engaged Buddhism – Including Today
Explore how engaged Buddhism connects inner healing with outer change—practical ways to face systemic suffering with wisdom, compassion, and courage.
Meditation + Talk: Using the Enneagram as a Tool on the Spiritual Path
Why do the same patterns keep pulling you off track? Explore how the Enneagram + Buddhist psychology reveal—and help transform—your core habits.
Talk: Working Productively With Our Hindrances and Personality Patterns
Learn how your unconscious personality patterns shape your thoughts, reactions and relationships — and how to work productively with them.
Meditation + Talk: Understanding and Cultivating Self-Worth
Feel like you’re never enough? Learn how to shift from chasing approval to cultivating steady, unconditional self-worth—just as you are.
Meditation + Talk: Equanimity – What It Is, Why It’s Good, and How to Develop It
Feeling overwhelmed? Learn how to cultivate equanimity—stay calm, clear, and resilient in tough times with practical tools from Dr. Rick Hanson.
Meditation + Talk: Living Your Values: Finding Peace and Resilience in a Chaotic World
Dr. Daniel Ellenberg shares how to navigate chaos with clarity and compassion, and take action without burnout or hardening your heart.
Meditation + Talk: How to Prevent Life’s Wear and Tear – and Release the Past
In this talk, Dr. Rick Hanson discusses how our mental reactions to life’s inevitable challenges often cause more suffering than the original problem and offers practical strategies to break this cycle and reduce unnecessary suffering.
These teachings are offered freely.
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6-7:30pm PT / 9-10:30pm ET
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