Clearing The Mind For Loving-Kindness: The Art Of Happiness In The Indian And Tibetan Traditions
Event Details
- Who
- Sharon Salzberg and Joe Loizzo
- What
- Talk & Discussion
- Where
- Tibet House US Gallery
- When
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012 At 07:00 PM
- How
- General: $25/Members: $22.50
- Details
- Wednesday, May 23, 7-9PM
About the Event
Anticipating current positive psychology and neurobiology, Buddhist contemplative science sees our ability to cope with the emotional challenges of our complex social lives is the main variable affecting our health, happiness and wellbeing. From the art of loving-kindness to Zen compassion and the mind-training of Tibet, all Buddhist traditions offer powerful methods for transforming reactive social emotions like anger, attachment and shame into the healing elixirs of love, care, joy and peace. This transformational art may be the single most protective and effective healing practice for lay students facing the social stresses of life in our challenging world. This evening talk reunites two great streams of this art, the loving-kindness tradition taught by Sharon Salzberg and the mind-training tradition taught by Joe Loizzo. Their dialogue and guided meditations will weave together the ways these twin traditions teach the essentials of equanimity, self-analysis, building compassion and transforming adversity, sing the tools of mindfulness, insight meditation, breath awareness and visualization.
Wednesday, May 23, 7-9PM General: $25/Members: $22.50 click here to register
Presenter:
Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She is one of America's leading meditation teachers and authors. For more information about Sharon, please visit: www.SharonSalzberg.com.
Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over thirty years' experience studying the beneficial effects of meditation on healing and learning. He is is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches mind/body health. He has taught science and religion, the scientific study of religious experience, and the Indo-Tibetan mind sciences at Columbia University, where he currently is adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.
About the Presenter
See above.
