Online: Stand Up and Sit Down (The Courage of a Noble Heart)
with Joseph Mauricio
Thursday, August 11th, 2022 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
We are living in challenging times, and while it’s tempting to bypass suffering, the challenges of our life are part of the world we’ve inherited. The problems will be waiting for us, nonetheless.
With meditation practice, we train the mind to redirect the impulses that trigger our defensive nature toward a mindful approach. When faced with difficulty, we might choose to recoil, lash out, or embrace extreme solutions. But, acting out without awareness creates further suffering. On the other hand, when we act in, shutting our feelings inside, we are causing self-harm and depleting our life force. If we close down from the pain, we also cut ourselves off from caring. However, with meditation practice, we can develop the resilience to choose a middle way between acting out and repressing.
Join longtime meditation teacher Joseph Mauricio for an online evening exploring how meditation builds the resilience we need to face our life.
Through mindfulness and awareness practice, we learn to honor ourselves, our feelings, and our world by sitting down on the earth and accepting the present as it is. Then we can respond to situations with clarity and strength. In the Bodhisattva tradition, this is called “noble heart.” And from that noble heart, we rise up in an expression of willingness to remain engaged in our world no matter what storms arise.
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Teacher(s)
Joseph Mauricio
Joseph Mauricio is a teacher, speaker and Life Coach who works with private clients, couples, and groups. He offers motivational and meditation workshops in academic, business, and private sectors.
A senior meditation teacher of the Shambhala Buddhist Tradition, Joseph began teaching twenty years ago at Karme Choling Meditation Center in Vermont and has subsequently taught in schools, businesses, nightclubs, and correctional facilities as well as meditation, wellness and community centers throughout North America.
Joseph is the principal teacher of Dharmajunkies an engaged meditation community and is the founder of LIFEWORK, a meditation based coaching service that combines mindfulness practice with modern and ancient leadership principles in order to guide clients towards an authentic direction in their lives.