This program will be held online via Zoom. All registrants will receive the link to join the program in their Order Confirmation email. This program will not be recorded. Times are ET.
Teacher Ruth King encourages us to contemplate the fundamental truth that “Nothing in life is perfect, permanent, or personal.” These three hallmarks of existence touch upon and apply to all aspects of our lived experience, inviting us into a rich exploration both on and off the cushion. These truths offer tremendous potential to ease suffering and more importantly are potent doorways to awakening. We are encouraged to begin to see impermanence, dissatisfaction, and not-self – known in Buddhism as the Three Characteristics – in our everyday lives, in each and every moment.
The understanding of impermanence is an antidote to the suffering of attachment and ill will. The understanding of dissatisfaction is an antidote to craving and clinging. The understanding of not-self is an antidote to the suffering that arises from our misconception that we are a disconnected, independent self.
Over the course of four weeks together, we will explore the Three Characteristics. Supported by the Buddha’s teachings we will grow our awareness of the body, heart, and mind, and align ourselves more readily with these liberating truths.
This program is suitable for everyone, beginners, and experienced practitioners alike. Our time together will include Dharma reflections, meditation instructions, small group inquiry, and ample opportunity for Q&A. Everyone is welcome.
Full and partial scholarships are available up to 72 hours before the start of the program.
Zeenat Potia teaches meditation in Buddhist and secular spaces. She has over 15 years of training, with extensive silent retreat experience in the early Buddhist tradition and advanced trauma-sensitive mindfulness. Zeenat incorporates her life experience — as a South Asian immigrant, as a mother, and as a strategic communications professional in higher education, non-profit, and publishing for over 20 years — into her teaching.
Her current work integrates mindfulness, 12-step recovery, and Internal Family Systems as a way to heal intergenerational trauma and transform structures of internal and external oppression. She is committed to sharing mindfulness with underserved and underrepresented populations. Zeenat has taught at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center since 2014, as well as teaching meditation in organizations and universities throughout the Boston area. Learn more at: zeenatpotia.com
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