Showing posts with label Sylvia Boorstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvia Boorstein. Show all posts

Friday, 16 November 2012

Equanimity by Sylvia Boorstein

This talk by Sylvia Boorstein is rather "conversational", it starts half way through a discussion of the "recent" election and Obama's re-instatement as U.S. President.

It takes a look at all of the Brahma Viharas, while concentrating upon upekkhā, or equanimity.



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Saturday, 23 June 2012

How Do We Become Wise by Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, where she leads a popular weekly class on Wednesday mornings. She is also a Senior Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She lectures nationally on Buddhism and mindfulness; she teaches vipassana and metta meditation. She emphasizes seeing daily life as practice and has a special ability to illustrate how we can be mindful standing in a grocery store checkout line as well as sitting on a meditation cushion.



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