UPCOMING EVENTS
Fat Dharma: Liberation for Our Hearts and Bodies ONLINE at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies – Tuesdays July 9-30 from 3-5p PT | 6-8pm ET
Nina Herzog and I are delighted to offer a new program on fat dharma! We will be on Zoom, and it will include an intimate space of conversation, so we generally will not be recording.
By welcoming and gathering fat-identified people into community to explore the four noble truths of Buddhism, we hope to create new frameworks for understanding and practicing (fat) liberation. Our intention is no less than to offer a version of the teachings that is free of anti-fat language and that encourages fat people to cherish our bodies, finding contentment and peace in a fat body, just as it is, in every moment, as it changes and ages. As traditionally presented in Western Buddhism, the teachings often make an example of fat bodies, both implicitly and explicitly making fat meditators feel like our bodies are evidence of moral failure, that we don’t belong. (One more scoop of ice cream is the usual example of greed and clinging, the central “poison” to be avoided, the root of all suffering.)
We will revisit basic Buddhist concepts – the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion; the three factors of existence of suffering, identity, and change; and the three refuges of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha – dropping any interference from diet culture and drawing instead from kindness and compassion for our embodiment, as it is. In this new program, we will learn collaboratively, excited and curious about what might emerge from a community of fat practitioners weaving together dharma teachings with intersectional fat liberation wisdom. As dharma practitioners who are also committed to fat liberation, we will re-construct Buddhist practices of “embodiment” to make sense in our own fat bodies.
Meeting Time: Tuesdays, 6-8 PM ET | 3-5 PM PT
Meeting Dates: July 9, 16, 23, July 30
More Info and Register Here: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/course/fat-dharma-liberation-for-our-hearts-and-bodies/
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