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A Lotus Rising from Mud: A Path for Anti-Asian Restoration
ONLINE: 12 weeks Practice Intensive
Thursdays, Feb. 1 - April 18, 2024 5:30-7:30 pm Pacific Time
Open to all who self-identify as Asian in North America. Biracial, multiracial, and adoptees are especially invited
How can we attend to the impacts of racism? How and where can we connect to individual and collective agency to free ourselves from imputed or internalized conditioning? How can we explore and celebrate the commonalities and variations in our experiences as Asians in North America?
This 3-month intensive study and practice program seeks to provide a restorative container based on the Engaged 4 Noble Truths:
1. Harm and Harming is present.
2. Understanding fully the causes & conditions for harm & harming.
3. Individual & collective agency for ending harm is possible.
4. The Eightfold Path empowers wholeness.
Course structure of weekly meetings alternate between class sessions (of teachings, meditations, and reflective or mindful practices) and small-group sessions to build intimacy for in-depth discussions and reflections around the various layered and complex themes associated with our social location as Asians in North America’s racial landscapes and dialogues. (Themes such as invisibilization, exoticization, perpetual foreigner, shy as shameful, etc.)
Please Note: This is an intensive Dharma study and practice course so there will be about 2 hours of reading or homework/home-practice each week. As with any intensive practice, engagement with and execution of the curriculum are crucial to foster any shifts or transformations. We celebrate your willingness and courage to join in this deep work! Having a consistent & regular Buddhist, mindfulness-based or other spiritual practice is highly encouraged
Noble-Giving Scale for the Program:
The teachings are given unconditionally to be accessible to all. To support this Dharma event & A2Z, we offer this sangha-determined giving model:
Sliding-scale: (with income -match guide). NOTE: Rev. Liên livelihood is by teaching so this giving-scale is based on a practice of mutuality. Please give accordingly.
Pay-it-Forward: $360 (more than $75K)
Standard: $300 (between $50 -$75K)
Limited Income: $240 (less than $50K)
Benefactor: Self-determined amount more than the 3 stated above — Especially to support another’s participation in this Program or other A2Z events.
No one turned away for lack of funds based on your overall economic-class-access. Remember that Rev. Liên livelihood is completely dependent on your offering. — Also, to foster class-equity practice, everyone in the Program will be sharing to the whole group your Noble-Giving pledged at the first meeting on Feb. 1
THANK YOU! Venmo giving to: @SuddenLeap-A2Z (Tel. 4 digits: 2585) or PayPal giving to: SuddenLeap.A2Z@gmail.com or use the “Donate” button on the main page of this website
REGISTER BY January 26, 2024
