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This Sunday: Vik Anantha, Teacher Trainee

Glimpsing Emptiness

Sunday, June 28

10:00am - 12:00pm

Offered In-Person & Online via Zoom

Join us this Sunday, June 28, as we welcome Vik Anantha back to the teacher seat for a Dharma talk on Glimpsing Emptiness: an exploration of anattā: Most of us experience ourselves as a continuous person moving through a continuous life. But what happens when that continuity breaks down?

Drawing from a recent medical experience involving memory loss and glitching consciousness, we'll explore how the sense of self is continually constructed from changing conditions. Through guided meditation and reflection, we'll investigate the Buddha's teachings on not-self and emptiness - not as abstract concepts, but as insights that can emerge when we look closely at our own experience.