Conversations with With Dr. Muna Shaheen, Dr. Stephen Fulder, hosted by Gil Fronsdal
Saturday, October 11 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am US Pacific Time
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You are invited to join a dialogue with Dr. Muna Shaheen and Dr. Stephen Fulder, leading Palestinian and Israeli dharma teachers, hosted by Gil Fronsdal. These are times of alarming violence and suffering, especially but not only in Gaza. There is an urgent need to explore how we can make sense of what is happening, how we can plant the seeds of change, how we can deal with the strong emotions and views all around us, and how the dharma can give us ways to respond. Muna and Stephen will reveal how it is impacting them and their communities and offer their different perspectives, their reflections, and some possible directions.
About the Speakers:
Muna Shaheen is a Palestinian single mother of three living in Haifa. She is a long-term practitioner, who co-founded “Ihna-Hon,” an open Arabic-speaking mindfulness-meditation space, and later founded “Marsa” a dedicated Arabic-speaking Sangha, in which she teaches Dharma. In addition she is an assistant teacher in an MBSR teacher-training-course.
Muna regards mindfulness teaching as her major social activism, while she holds a veterinarian certificate and promotes awareness to animal welfare both as an educational consultant in the Ministries of Agriculture and Education and teaching at university level. She is an environmental activist, co-founder of the “One Climate” movement, and formerly established a Palestinian Sea advocacy community in Haifa. Muna also leads children’s group in nature bonding them to earth.
Stephen Fulder was born in London in 1946, educated at Oxford University and has a PhD. He is a senior spiritual teacher who has been practising for nearly 50 years since his time in India in 1976 and is the founder and senior teacher of the leading Buddhist practice organisation in Israel (Tovana – The Israel Insight Society). He has been teaching various kinds of meditative and Buddhist practices and teachings to a large number of people during the last 30 years, in classes, online teachings and retreats, and emphasizes how to bring dharma tools, capacities and insights into the most challenging of circumstances and has had years of experience in peace-making in the Middle East. His published books include The Five Powers and How to Thrive in Hard Times: A Buddhist Manual.
Gil Fronsdal is the senior guiding co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. He started Buddhist practice in 1975, and has been teaching for IMC since 1990. Gil is an authorized teacher in two traditions: the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, and Japanese Soto Zen. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. He is a husband and the father of two sons.