Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk (47WM25)

Closed Captioning [CC] is available for this program. Online via Zoom.

Description:
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. With more community emphasis than the large Monday night gathering, this group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore Dharma with an emphasis on everyday life, social engagement, and lovingkindness. Online: We are offering this program online via Zoom for you to join us remotely.

Special Guests! November 12 and 19, Donald will be hosting Muna Shaheen (a Palestinian dharma teacher living in Israel) and Stephen Fulder (a Jewish Israeli dharma teacher) to explore together how they’ve brought practice over these last many years (and especially the last two years) to the current situation in “Israel/Palestine.” The teachers will offer all proceeds to support those in need.

Muna Shaheen is a Palestinian single mother of three living in Haifa. She is a long-term practitioner, who co-founded “Ihna-Hon,” an open Arabic-speaking mindfulness-meditation space, and later founded “Marsa” a dedicated Arabic-speaking Sangha, in which she teaches Dharma. In addition she is an assistant teacher in an MBSR teacher-training-course.

Muna regards mindfulness teaching as her major social activism, while she holds a veterinarian certificate and promotes awareness to animal welfare both as an educational consultant in the Ministries of Agriculture and Education and teaching at university level. She is an environmental activist, co-founder of the “One Climate” movement, and formerly established a Palestinian Sea advocacy community in Haifa. Muna also leads children’s group in nature bonding them to earth.

Stephen Fulder was born in London in 1946, educated at Oxford University and has a PhD. He is a senior spiritual teacher who has been practising for nearly 50 years since his time in India in 1976 and is the founder and senior teacher of the leading Buddhist practice organisation in Israel (Tovana – The Israel Insight Society). He has been teaching various kinds of meditative and Buddhist practices and teachings to a large number of people during the last 30 years, in classes, online teachings and retreats, and emphasizes how to bring dharma tools, capacities and insights into the most challenging of circumstances and has had years of experience in peace-making in the Middle East. His published books include The Five Powers and How to Thrive in Hard Times: A Buddhist Manual.

Class time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time weekly on Wednesday mornings.

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