Join Sharon and wisdom teacher and author, Frank Ostaseski for virtual conversation about service, hosted by Upaya Zen Center. Life calls us all to service. While service is natural, even instinctual, it isn’t always easy. Service is a curriculum, an endless series of questions, puzzling and insistent. Sometimes it occurs as part of our professional role, or our spiritual development. It may arise caring for a dying friend or family member, as part of our commitment to activism or as a response to a stranger standing in front us asking for our help. At times it is a conscious choice, at other times we feel that we have no other choice.
We will explore the purpose, value, spirit, and practice of service.
Appreciating the challenges and addressing the roadblocks we inevitably encounter on the path of service. Discovering how we can renew and deepen our commitment to make a difference.
These two respected teachers have dedicated their lives to service. Join them in an exploration of service as an expression of the dharma, and our essential humanity. The program will include mindfulness practice, experiential exercises, storytelling, and group discussion.
Series Description:
On one Sunday each month, you are invited to join the global sangha from 11:00AM–12:30PM Mountain Time on Zoom, as specially invited teachers share their wisdom.
“Gathering Dharma” is about compassion, connection and collective action. It is a time to explore social and environmental engagement and to affirm our vows in a time of great challenge on our earth. During the morning, we will touch into practice, learn together, and open to inquiry.
For each morning program, there will be a Resource Page, and the Zoom video of the morning session will be posted on the Resource Page shortly after the session. We ask that you register for each Sunday you wish to attend, and you will be sent a Zoom link for the gathering and have access to the unique Resource Page. Recordings of the session will be accessible in perpetuity.
Each of these sessions is by donation only. Please offer generously so we can support our teachers and Upaya.