Tuesday, June 16
6:30 - 7:15 pm EST
Online
General Admission: $20 | Scholarship Admission: $10
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This Pride Month community meditation, open to all queer practitioners and allies alike, is an opportunity to give space to the compassion that, in the view of the Indo-Tibetan contemplative tradition, forms a major part of our true nature. By relaxing deeply into a state of spacious rest, we can allow our compassionate energy to extend itself outwards—first to ourselves as the practitioner, and then beyond us to the communities and beings we are deeply connected to.
The forty-minute session will be divided into two shorter practices, one primarily focused on offering tenderness and compassion for ourselves and one focused on the cultivation of resolute universal compassion that allows us to be persistent in our transformative work aimed at creating a more peaceful, just, and kind world.
All the proceeds from this session are offered to the Trevor Project in support of endangered LGBTQ+ youth.
BIO
Michael Lobsang Tenpa (he/they) is a Tibetan Buddhist translator, meditation instructor, Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher and student of EcoDharma. Born in Siberia, he earned BA and MA degrees in South Asian studies, worked in social media and eventually received ordination in Nepal, spending nine years as a Tibetan Buddhist monastic before switching to the path of a lay teacher/practitioner. In addition to years of Buddhist studies and translator work, he also trained as a secular ethics and mindfulness instructor in the Netherlands, the UK and the US. To learn more, visit https://lobsangtenpa.com.
“My passion in this work is helping people find a deep yet accessible level of contemplative practice that comes out of the profound Buddhist methods & helps them establish a meaningful and deeply satisfying lifestyle imbued with a sense of compassionate responsibility.”
