5:30-7:00am: Lam-rim, Path of the Buddha Dr. Alexander Berzin

7:00-8:00am: Contemplation: Sanskrit :Gabriela Burnel

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9:00-10:00am: New Dimensions Radio: Host Justine Willis Toms:  The Direct Route To Abiding Peace with Gail Brenner, Ph.D.  Are we limited, damaged, and inadequate? Gail Brenner says we are not. She understands that the self-help movement can be useful, but believes that we possess the capacity to spontaneously find inner peace. She shares ideas for shedding the stories and thought patterns that bring about negative feelings. “The end of suffering is possible in any moment; we don’t need to keep searching for it,” she says. Brenner feels that the act of seeking implies that we think there’s something wrong that needs to be fixed. “Self-help is seeking for something outside ourselves that we think we don’t have.” She also believes that it is important to welcome and observe the feelings that are contributing to our suffering because we can learn from them. “Our attention to our experience is power because it comes from this place of infinite life…when we’re in touch with that, these conditioned patterns of thoughts and feelings begin to unravel .”:Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and blogger.

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3:00-330pm: TUC Radio: TUC Radio – 3:00-330pm: TUC Radio: TUC Radio - Hoodwinked in the Hot House - Leonardo Figueroa Holland, Tom Gold tooth and Ananda Tan Hoodwinked in the Hot House - Leonardo Figueroa Holland, Tom Goldtooth and Ananda Tan (Streamed live on Sep 21, 2021)

This is another webinar on Indigenous Resistance to Climate False Solutions. This one was co-sponsored by the New School in New York City with the Indigenous Environmental Network as key organizer. The IEN was founded in 1990 within the United States. They are supporting Indigenous communities and Tribal Governments in the US and abroad in protecting sacred sites, land, water, and air. Tom Goldtooth has served as executive director of the IEN since 1996.The New School is a private research university in New York City. Its original mission was to serve academic freedom, intellectual inquiry and be a home for progressive thinkers This News School sponsored webinar took place during New York City Climate Week on September 21, 2021, in preparation of the Conference of Parties, the COP 26, in Glasgow.

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8:00-9:00pm: Upaya Zen Center Talk by John Dunne Self-hate is a particularly modern, western phenomenon. Buddhist literature up until the 21st century lacks any notion of self-compassion. Why is that? Compassion garners a large role with the advent of the Mahayana movement, in its capacity to liberate us from the second veil of ignorance, the distinction between self and other, self and world. Going beyond the Arhat, ‘…the point of the Buddha is to serve others to free themselves… they are great teachers…’ who free others by teaching them the nature of reality. ‘True awakening is free from perspective,…teaching from the standpoint of others…. Buddha’s don’t have opinions!’ The West’s ‘subjective turn’ sees an emphasis on the ‘self’, a story-telling of the ‘self’. A self-focusing with strong correlations to depression. A possible reframing of compassion in the form of renunciation can provide us with the motivation to free sentient beings from suffering’, but without turning the self into an object or story, without the self-soothing, ‘…dropping into the pain and letting go of the story…getting good at not taking the story of the self seriously. ‘John Dunne PHD. Holds a  Harvard University, holds the distinguished chair in Contemplative Humanities  an endowed position created through the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

9:00-10:00pm: Rumi:  Coleman Barks

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11:00-12:00am Contemplation: Sanskrit :Gabriela Burnel

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1:00-2:00am: Host Justine Willis Toms: New Dimensions Radio Host Justine Willis Toms:  The Direct Route To Abiding Peace with Gail Brenner, Ph.D.  Are we limited, damaged, and inadequate? Gail Brenner says we are not. She understands that the self-help movement can be useful, but believes that we possess the capacity to spontaneously find inner peace. She shares ideas for shedding the stories and thought patterns that bring about negative feelings. “The end of suffering is possible in any moment; we don’t need to keep searching for it,” she says. Brenner feels that the act of seeking implies that we think there’s something wrong that needs to be fixed. “Self-help is seeking for something outside ourselves that we think we don’t have.” She also believes that it is important to welcome and observe the feelings that are contributing to our suffering because we can learn from them. “Our attention to our experience is power because it comes from this place of infinite life…when we’re in touch with that, these conditioned patterns of thoughts and feelings begin to unravel .”:Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and blogger

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3:00-4:00am Seed: Upaya Zen Center Talk by John Dunne Self-hate is a particularly modern, western phenomenon. Buddhist literature up until the 21st century lacks any notion of self-compassion. Why is that? Compassion garners a large role with the advent of the Mahayana movement, in its capacity to liberate us from the second veil of ignorance, the distinction between self and other, self and world. Going beyond the Arhat, ‘…the point of the Buddha is to serve others to free themselves… they are great teachers…’ who free others by teaching them the nature of reality. ‘True awakening is free from perspective,…teaching from the standpoint of others…. Buddha’s don’t have opinions!’ The West’s ‘subjective turn’ sees an emphasis on the ‘self’, a story-telling of the ‘self’. A self-focusing with strong correlations to depression. A possible reframing of compassion in the form of renunciation can provide us with the motivation to free sentient beings from suffering’, but without turning the self into an object or story, without the self-soothing, ‘…dropping into the pain and letting go of the story…getting good at not taking the story of the self seriously. ‘John Dunne PHD. Holds a  Harvard University, holds the distinguished chair in Contemplative Humanities  an endowed position created through the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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