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Urban Buddhism: Balancing the Contemplative & the Active with Tenzin Priyadarshi
Mar 26 2010 7:00PM - 9:00PM
LECTURE DETAILS
Friday, March 26
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$15
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ABOUT THE LECTURE
Our lives are filled with activity. We race to work, obligations, and errands to be productive - and afterwards we race to the gym, yoga class and the meditation cushion to rest. Our minds are filled with past activities, current activities, and upcoming activities (along with contingency plans). Multi-tasking is highly prized in our society. Staggering volumes of electronic information compete for our attention daily.
Learning to pare away fragmenting chatter and approach activity with intentness and calm is a benefit of meditation. This evening's talk will offer suggestions on how to create a fluid interchange between energetic activity and "energetic" contemplation.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Tenzin Priyadarshi (The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Shukla) is the Founding Director of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Buddhist Chaplain there. At the age of ten years, he entered a Buddhist monastery in Rajgir near ancient Nalanda University and was subsequently ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who is his spiritual mentor. Priyadarshi also serves as the President of the Prajnopaya Foundation, a worldwide humanitarian organization, and is the Founding Member and Director of The Vishwa Shanti Stupa (World Peace Pagoda Projects) in New Delhi, India. He serves as Trustee for The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi and an advisor to the Renaissance Project in San Francisco, CA. He is also actively involved in ongoing dialogue between Buddhism, meditation and neuroscience.
