Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST
SF Dharma Collective
2701 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA
In this daylong workshop we will dive deep into embodied
awareness practices that engage a sustainable and joyful spiritual journey.
About this Event
Calm Body, Clear Mind: Finding More Joy Through Embodied
Awareness Practices
with: Scott Tusa
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of
mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body. – Shunryu Suzuki
Bodhisattvas should not seek omniscience dissociated from
their own bodies which arise in/as/of the four elements. – Manjushri in The
Sūtra on Eliminating Ajātaśatru's Remorse
EMBODIED AWARENESS
Meditation happens in the body. I think we can all mostly
agree on that. Yet why when so many of us sit down to meditate we so easily
forget this and end up endlessly cycling in and trying to catch and subdue an
out of control thinking mind?
In our quest for more mental and spiritual clarity, we
often leave the body behind. This makes it difficult to develop a connection to
deeper states of meditative awareness that enable consistent progress along the
Buddhist path.
In this daylong workshop we will dive deep into embodied
awareness practices that engage a sustainable and joyful spiritual journey.
Through periods of silent meditation and discussion we will explore and develop
our connection to a calmer and more resilient state of being and how to better
overcome mental and emotional habits that cause unnecessary suffering.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
Scott Tusa is a Buddhist teacher based in Brooklyn, New
York. Ordained by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, he spent nine years
as a Buddhist monk, with much of that time engaged in solitary meditation
retreat and study in the United States, India, and Nepal. He teaches meditation
and Buddhist psychology extensively in group and one-to-one settings, and
supports Tsoknyi Rinpoche's Pundarika Sangha as a practice advisor. He trained
in Buddhist philosophy and meditation with some of the greatest living masters
since his early twenties, including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and
Tulku Sangag Rinpoche.
Cost: $60 - $120
