Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am.
Prashant has been a meditation student since 1995. He has taught many 10-day online mediation courses through Dhamma Sukha and has assisted retired UU minister Rev. Doug Kraft in two long retreats. Prashant and his lovely wife Aru have lived in the bay area for the last two decades and they have been coming to this church with their delightful son Aarav for the past 5 years.
Can IQ be used as a measure of competence and intent? Does higher wealth correlate with higher IQs? Is an expert in math and business more or less intelligent than a drummer or an athlete? Are awareness and kindness measures of intelligence? Let’s unpack all … read more.
And How to Bring Them into Everyday Life
Prashant and Aarav will be exploring “kindness and awareness” along these prompts:
– what could kindness and awareness, practically, do to you?
– what blocks them or comes in the way?
– what could you tell yourself or what could you … read more.
Our guest speaker says: “I have suffered with chronic bodily and mental pain for more than two decades. Knowing about how the pain appears and what makes it continue on opened me up to the world inside me. Just knowing more and opening up to … read more.
Difficult times are trying times. They expose our vulnerabilities. How can our vulnerabilities be our gifts? How do we hide our joy, peace and balance? How do we uncover it? Let’s explore together what Buddha had to say about all of this.
The order of service is here.