On the Path to Enlightenment: Altruistic Love and Compassion
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 2021-12-24

Eve Ekman and Lopön Chandra Easton were both present to discuss Chapter 7 of Matthieu Ricard’s book, “On the Path to Enlightenment”! Chandra led us in a meditation based on the words of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche from the Alchemy of Suffering. Eve and Chandra then read and spoke about other readings from the chapter 7, Altruistic Love and Compassion. Finally, Eve closed with a short and sweet sit of calming and gratitude.

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.

Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the Assistant Spiritual Director and Lead Authorized Teacher for Tara Mandala Retreat Center, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. She is currently writing a book on the 21 Taras in Buddhism. Visit www.shunyatayoga.com and www.taramandala.org.

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