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SUMMARY:Exploring Emptiness
DESCRIPTION:Exploration of Emptiness\nTuesdays February 6-27\, 2024\n6:30pm-8:30pm PDT \nJoin Heather Breault and Pamela Rasada for an exploration into emptiness and gain insight into the ultimate nature of our reality. We will look at how to bring this abstract idea into our everyday lives\, and how to absorb the idea of the infinite potential we all have. \nThis is a virtual event that will be held online via zoom.\nZoom Meeting ID: 224-735-8115\nPasscode: 1234\nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2247358115\nwww.diamondlightsac.org/donate or “Diamond Light” on Venmo. \nSuggested donation: $10-$20 to cover expenses\, which include ongoing rent for our Center\, fees to provide online services and supporting our teachers. No one turned away due to lack of funds. \nAbout Heather Breault: I started practicing yoga in 2001\, which lead me to find Buddhism\, with my first class taught by Lama Marut in 2008. I have studied Buddhism in-depth since 2008\, attended many Buddhist retreats\, and worked on deepening my personal practice over the years. I am grateful to many amazing teachers\, my closest teacher being Amie Diller. \nAbout Pamela Rasada: Pamela is a student of the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama\, in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition\, in June of 2011. Through her primary teacher\, Amie Diller\, Pamela has had the opportunity to meet and study with many experienced and practiced teachers. In February 2018\, after seven years of classwork and study\, Pamela completed an eighteen course Gelugpa intensive. Pamela continues to explore additional opportunities to learn and is grateful for any opportunity to share what she has learned with others.
URL:https://www.diamondlightsac.org/event/exploring-emptiness/2024-02-27/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 2791 24th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95818\, United States
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SUMMARY:Postponed to 2022: Compassion Cultivation Training
DESCRIPTION:With Seona Gwon\nWhen: Sep 29\, 2021 – Nov 17\, 2021 (Every Wednesday for 8 weeks) 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM\nWhere: Online Zoom \nTHIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL 2022. PLEASE CHECK BACK! \nCompassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is a multi-week personal and professional development course designed at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and taught around the world by Certified Facilitators. The program includes practical tools and exercises designed to enhance your awareness\, compassion\, and resilience. \nCCT will support you to improve your relationships with friends\, family\, clients\, patients\, staff\, and coworkers. \nYou’ll walk away from each CCT class with tools and practices you can immediately put to work. CCT will help you: \n\nImprove awareness\nIncrease connection to others\nDecrease the distress you may feel in difficult situations\n\nCCT is a two-hour weekly class that includes: \n\nLarge and small group discussions to share learning experiences\nGuided meditation to improve awareness\nListening and communication exercises to build compassionate interactions\n\nYou’ll also have daily homework of one guided meditation per day and informal practices to try as you go about your day. \nTuition\nThis course has four levels of tuition\, on a sliding scale: \n\nSupporter: $150 – $200  This amount supports our basic event costs\nMid Level: $200- $250  This amount supports our event and helps keep our event to people of all income levels\nSustainer: $250 – $350 This amount supports our event\,  allows all income levels to attend\, and supports our physical center to remain open.\nPay-what-you-can: No one turned away for lack of funds.\n\nAbout the Teacher: Seona Gwon\nSeona works as a teacher\, producer\, writer\, translator\, and interpreter in South Korea\, and occasionally in California. She is an International Dharma Instructor\, certified by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Also\, Seona is a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) and Mindful Self Compassion (MSC)\, teaching in both Korean and English. For 15 years\, Seona was an Instructor at Joongang Sangha University\, the primary buddhist university in Korea for monks and nuns\, also taught in the graduate school of Dongguk University’s Buddhist Department\, and at the International School of Buddhist Studies (ISBS)\, a graduate program for Korean nuns. As a producer\, she brought the famous Zen Master\, Thich Nhat Hanh to South Korea in 2003 for a countrywide visit\, and Zen teacher Norman Fischer in 2017. Seona has worked as a researcher at the Dongguk University Academy of Buddhism. \nSeona has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from Dongguk University\, with a dissertation on “Modern Compassion Meditation in the West.” She continues to expand her studies\, including completing the Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) course and becoming a certified teacher in Self Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC). \nSeona is highly interested in the ongoing dialogue between West and East regarding methods to relieve suffering in the modern world\, and especially interested in the Western secular programs focused on mindfulness and compassion. She often serves as interpreter for these programs in English\, and served Jon Kabat Zinn in his first visit to South Korea\, in 2012\, to introduce Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). \nSeona has been a practitioner of Korean Zen (Seon) since childhood.  She lives with her husband\, John\, in Seoul\, South Korea. Her central path is developing and deepening her own compassion and then manifesting it in life and action in the larger world. \n \nThe writers of nursing essay writing services should have a PhD or master’s degree. They must undergo rigorous training in order to qualify for their positions. A high quality service will also have professional writers who are experts in the field. Moreover\, they have experience of a certain number of years. Experience enables them to gauge which information and terminology to use in nursing essays. Apart from providing excellent nursing essays\, nursing essay writers also help students choose a topic\, do background research\, and complete papers that are incomplete.
URL:https://www.diamondlightsac.org/event/compassion-cultivation-training/2021-11-17/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 2791 24th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95818\, United States
CATEGORIES:Class Series
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SUMMARY:Restoring the Terrain: Cultivating the Luminous Pearl
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 25th\n12:30 pm–4:30 pm Pacific time\non Zoom \nBeginners Welcomed! Cost $45\nNo one turned away for lack of funds \nRegister here!\nIn this workshop we’ll go through the initial Qigong sequence of “Restoring the Terrain”\, opening to and exploring the inner experience of each movement.  The practice ultimately creates the body as an alchemical vessel where the vital energy (qi) is held and transformed. \, and our physiology healed. The luminous peart pearl\, our alchemical product\, is the DNA for the compassionate and rainbow bodies. \nWhile this practice builds on an ongoing class\, we’ll be playing with each movement slowly enough that beginners are welcomed. \nWhat is Qi-gong?\nQi-gong is an internal “vital energy” practice of body posture\, movement\, breathing and awareness together in unison. Qigong has traditionally been practiced as a healing art\, cultivating and balancing the ‘qi’ (“chi”) to activate the body’s innate healing ability\, as well as a transformative Taoist spiritual practice. \nAbout the teacher:\nAnand Parikshak is a meditation teacher with a focus in the teachings of the Tao and the cultivation of emotional wellbeing. As an Indian-American\, Anand was first taught meditation and posture from his father- the son of a yogi and Vedic educator. During his teens\, Anand took a personal interest in meditation inspired by a connection to Nature and his main mentor\, Dr. B Bayard\, a Taoist practitioner and physician. Under Dr. Bayard’s training and the training of other great teachers\, Anand has studied meditation\, qigong\, and Tai Chi Chuan. With respect to the teachings given to him\, Anand now leads and developments meditation and mindfulness based programs for individuals from all walks of life. He has been honored to teach all around the world including prestigious institutions such as UCSF’s Osher Center\, American University’s School of International Service\, and the United States Department of State.
URL:https://www.diamondlightsac.org/event/restoring-the-terrain-cultivating-the-luminous-pearl/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 2791 24th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95818\, United States
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SUMMARY:6 Healing Sounds: Working with Emotions in the Body
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Sept 24th\n6:30–8:30 pm Pacific time\non Zoom \nBeginners Welcomed! Cost $25\nNo one turned away for lack of funds \nRegister here! \nThese 6 Healing Sounds are an ancient Qi-Gong practice based on the 5 Element Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.  We’ll explore sounds and movements which correspond to specific emotions\, organs\, and energy channels of the body/mind organism—all relating to the 5 Elements of the natural world. This practice has been used to balance the emotions and physical body for over 2\,000 years and can be especially healing in these challenging times. \nWhat is Qi-gong?\nQi-gong is an internal “vital energy” practice of body posture\, movement\, breathing\, and awareness together in unison. Qigong has traditionally been practiced as a healing art\, cultivating and balancing the ‘qi’ (“chi”) to activate the body’s innate healing ability\, as well as a transformative Taoist spiritual practice. \nAbout the teacher:\nAnand Parikshak is a meditation teacher with a focus in the teachings of the Tao and the cultivation of emotional wellbeing. As an Indian-American\, Anand was first taught meditation and posture from his father- the son of a yogi and Vedic educator. During his teens\, Anand took a personal interest in meditation inspired by a connection to Nature and his main mentor\, Dr. B Bayard\, a Taoist practitioner and physician. Under Dr. Bayard’s training and the training of other great teachers\, Anand has studied meditation\, qigong\, and Tai Chi Chuan. With respect to the teachings given to him\, Anand now leads and developments meditation and mindfulness based programs for individuals from all walks of life. He has been honored to teach all around the world including prestigious institutions such as UCSF’s Osher Center\, American University’s School of International Service\, and the United States Department of State.
URL:https://www.diamondlightsac.org/event/6-healing-sounds-working-with-emotions-in-the-body/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 2791 24th Street\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95818\, United States
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