Suffering and its causes with Eve and Teague
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 03/03/2023

Teague led us through a RAIN* practice on self compassion. Eve then focused on the Buddha's 1st teaching of the Middle Way: the 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path, from Chapter 22 of Old Path White Clouds. We focused on the 1st and 2nd Noble Truths: There is suffering and there is a cause of suffering.

Each week we read from “Old Path White Clouds”, the precious stories of the historical life of the Buddha beautifully woven together by the late great beloved being Thich Nhat Hanh.

*RAIN is a term coined by Tara Brach and stands for Recognize, Accept, Investigate, and Nurture.

Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, is the director of training at the Greater Good Science Center. She is also a UC Berkeley- and UCSF-trained social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has had meaningful collaborations with her father, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman. Their most recent project, The Atlas of Emotions, is an online visual tool to teach a language for improving our emotional awareness that was commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama. Eve is the co-lead instructor for Cultivating Emotional Balance, an evidence-based meditation and emotion regulation training developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.

Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Bringing together modern science with ancient wisdom and experiential art, Teague supports others in realizing a sense of steadiness, presence, and well-being in their own lives — no matter what conditions may be arising. Teague is qualified to teach “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” (MBSR) by The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also a certified teacher of the Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) and The Breathing Class programs. Teague draws upon these professional trainings, with a deep immersion and personal practice in the wisdom traditions they originate, to deliver a platform of personal transformation, stress resiliency, and secular ethics. Teague is currently supporting the development and pilot teaching the Mindfulness-Based Queer Resilience (MBQR) research study at Brown University School of Public Health, Mindfulness for Health Equity Lab.
website: teagueomalley.com
instagram: @illustrated_intentions 

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