Events

Mindful Parenting Intro Workshop with Rachael Frankford & Sara Marlowe
Thursday Feb 11, 2010, 6pm-9pm
Mindful parenting aims to enhance your emotional connection with your child. It is intended to facilitate your self-awareness, mindfulness and intentionality in responding to your child’s needs—at all ages. This will be an intro evening (please read the description below for further details. *Daytime Workshop also avail.

Mindfulness at the End-of-Life with Dr. Michele Chaban
Thursday Feb 18th, 6pm-9pm

Geshe Sherab will share what he values personally about the Buddha’s teachings and how these teachings may benefit curious Westerners.

GESHE SHERAB is a humourous and fluently articulate teacher and speaker. His Kitchener/Waterloo talk will focus on the Preliminary Practices. These practices purify obstacles and accumulate positive energies, leading to a direct experience of truth and greater sense of peace and happiness.

Have…Do... Be

We walk, we talk, we drive, we work, we buy, we pay, we sleep, we dream… in an endless cycle of having and doing where we “have-do-be” a particular person while we’re doing what we do, to get what we want. Often the way we have to be is not the way we are, but the way the world requires us to be. So we act out the parts, play the roles and wear the masks...over and over again.

Over time, “one develops a false sense of self in order to survive... After years of acting, performing and pretending, one’s loses sense of who one really is ... One’s True Self is numbed out!” (John Bradshaw)

We wonder what the having, doing and being are all about.
We ask: “Is there more to life than this? Is this all there is to us?