Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 8:30 to 10 am PDT on Zoom. Today, we have a special guest speaker, Leo Steinmetz of Acterra. He will lead a Green@Home Workshop that focuses on reducing carbon emissions at home through electrification. Leo Steinmetz is the Beneficial Electrification Manager at Acterra, a nonprofit working on sustainability outreach, advocacy, and community-building around the Bay Area. Leo works on supporting people’s access to building electrification, through Acterra’s Green@Home workshop series and induction cooktop lending programs….

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Saturday, May 21, 2022, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, with Vanessa Able,  Ram Appalaraju, Chenxing Han, Jennifer Lemas, and Kathryn Stark A half-day overview of a chaplain’s work of providing spiritual care and support for people in hospitals, hospices, prisons, and a wide variety of other settings. The work is wonderfully challenging and satisfying. In recent years, Buddhist practitioners have been experiencing chaplaincy as a powerful opportunity to practice engaged Buddhism, and for some, as a vocation and profession. Information…

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Earth Day, April 22nd, 2022 marks the start of a monthly program on Zoom exploring our mutual interests, concerns, experiences, and planning activities, including community engagement.  You are invited to bring your enthusiasm, your learning, and your beginner’s mind. The first meeting is on Saturday, April 30, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83790169250?pwd=V040bnlOZWlVbjVJL0pyUVNvUldvdz09 Meeting ID: 837 9016 9250 Passcode: 974633

Additional volunteer editors are needed to join the Audio Dharma Transcript Team, co-coordinated by Leslie Kanno and Meg Gawler. We are planning a progressive process of recruiting new editors, and the pace will depend on our training capacity. The Audio Dharma transcript project aims to edit Gil Fronsdal’s short morning talks (dharmettes) in order to make transcripts available on Audio Dharma and out into the cybersphere. These talks are appreciated and used by teachers, sitting groups, and practitioners worldwide. Our…

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IMC’s online programs continue in January.  The Sunday morning and Monday evening sit and Dharma talk will only be online on YouTube for the first two weeks of January.  We plan to begin offering these in-person again starting Sunday, January 16. Only people fully vaccinated and fully masked will be able to come to the in-person events. Most likely people who have already registered their COVID card will need to do it again. More information will be posted here around…

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From Friday, August 20 through Sunday, August 22, online donations to IMC will be given to Partners in Health, a non-profit doing important grassroots healthcare and assistance to the people of Haiti. To donate through IMC, donate here.  Use the  IMC/Audiodharma option. There is no special “Haiti” button by which to donate. Everything donated to IMC/Audiodharma through Sunday will be given to Partners in Health. Thank you!

9:30am – 4:30pm Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings the mindfulness and tranquility of traditional silent meditation into our experience with others. Resting on the foundation of traditional Buddhist teachings, this practice offers a way to integrate wisdom and compassion into our relational lives through mindful speaking and mindful listening.In this one-day non-residential workshop, we will use the power of relational meditation practice to understand the habits of heart and mind that lead to stress and distress,…

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Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA Join us for an afternoon retreat at the Environmental Volunteers’ EcoCenter located at the beautiful Palo Alto Baylands’ Nature Preserve. We will collectively turn off our digital devices and turn our hearts and minds to awe inspiring nature inside and outside. The event is held rain or shine, partly indoors and partly outdoors, sitting and walking. There will be guided meditation, periods of silent sitting and walking, Q/A, and…

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