Old Path White Clouds - the Ānāpānasati Sutta
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 14/09/2023

Eve led the sangha in a guided practice on the Ānāpānasati Sutta, or the practice of exulted happiness, or the full awareness of breath, from chapter 56 in “Old Path White Clouds”. We did the guided practice of 16 breaths, and then had a lengthy discussion about the practice.

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.

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.

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