*May 4th 2019: “Letting Go” with Forgiveness & Goodwill for People of Color

“Letting Go” with Forgiveness & Goodwill

for Self Identified People of Color

with Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt

East Bay Meditation Center

285 17th Street, Oakland

Saturday, May 4th 9AM - 3:00PM

Impermanence is part of life. We want “to move on” through wishing ourselves or another well, yet it’s hard to do. The thought of “sending goodwill” is nice but it may seem insurmountable.

This 1-day workshop and retreat provides a gentle container to foster letting go of old hurts and pains. In the morning, teachings, exercises and practices on forgiveness are offered. In the afternoon, we switch to a retreat format: engaging in guided meditations, generating goodwill to specific categories.

* Please bring any form of mementos for those you’d like to generate forgiveness and/or goodwill to in these meditations.

EBMC TEACHERS ARE NOT PAID BY THE CENTER. You are invited to offer a voluntary financial gift to them at the class. The East Bay Meditation Center operates using a generosity-based, gift economics model. This means we charge no set registration fees to attend our events and instead rely on the generous giving of our community. All classes at the Center do come with a financial cost. Class participants are offered an opportunity to make a voluntary gift to EBMC during the registration process or at an event itself. Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to explore any EBMC volunteer positions, please send an email expressing your interest to admin@eastbaymeditation.org.

In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including natural fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

Teacher Bio:

Keiryu Liên Shutt is a Dharma heir in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage. Drawing from her monastic practices in the U.S. and overseas, she endeavors to share ways in which the deep settledness of traditional practices can be brought into everyday life. Based at San Francisco Zen Center, Liên also teaches at East Bay Meditation Center and other Bay Area groups. To access talks, schedule a practice discussion (PD), and other retreat or workshop information, please go to AccessToZen.org