Book Discussion Group Bodhi Path

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Book Discussion Group
Dec 22, Tues 7 - 8:30 PM
“The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation” by Christopher Stagg
For more information: http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

Staying Home for Christmas | Free Virtual Holiday Concert

Staying Home for Christmas | Free Virtual Holiday Concert

Hosted by the Lobero Theatre and Opera SB. Available online at lobero.org on Dec 23 at 7:30pm (PT) through Dec 26 at midnight.

Join us for classic and surprise performances of holiday favorites and original songs by favorite artists from across Santa Barbara’s rich musical scene, hosted by Lobero Theatre Executive Director David Asbell and Opera Santa Barbara Artistic and General Director Kostis Protopapas.

Available online at lobero.org on Dec 23 at 7:30pm (PT) through Dec 26 at midnight.
https://www.lobero.org/events/staying-home-for-christmas/

Youth Mental Health First Aid (Online)

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern.
Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or until the crisis is resolved.

Tuesday evening meditation

Are you looking…
To develop a calm, stable and joyful mind?
For support to maintain your meditation practice?
For a spiritual home and community?
To learn what Buddhism teachings are all about?
The Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers a high quality curriculum of instruction in Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy. The Center was founded in 1997 at the direction of Shamar Rinpoche. Since then, hundreds of students have come to learn and practice in a modern, non-sectarian environment focused on authentic Buddhist teachings taught and practiced by authentic teachers. We are a diverse community of practitioners encompassing all ages and levels of practice. Dawa Tarchin Phillipsis the resident teacher, and we regularly host visiting teachers.
Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers …
•Weekly Dharma teachings
•Weekly meditation session led by sangha members
•Frequent "Introduction to Meditation" classes
•Weekend workshops on topics such as advanced practice, overcoming adversity, working with emotions, compassion and loving kindness, and Buddhist philosophy
•Biannual 5 day residential retreats
•Opportunities to take Refuge, Bodhisattva and Householder vows
Come join us. All are welcome.

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.

Adult Studio Art Workshop (via Zoom): Drawing

Start off the new year by creating loose, gestural drawings of Ganesha, the Hindu deity believed to be the remover of obstacles. Practice 2 to 5-minute sketches, drawing from a photo of SBMA’s 11th-century dancing Ganesha carved from sandstone.

View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection here.

Required supplies

Prismacolor ebony pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
Meet your instructor
Tina Villadolid has been a Teaching Artist for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for over 22 years. Connecting with the people in her community through art has brought her so much joy! Tina loves to paint with oils, sculpt with clay, create installation art, draw portraits with charcoal, and write songs. She is conversational in Spanish, has two grandchildren, is originally from New York City, and lives with her cat, Chappie James, Jr.

Ticket Cost:
Workshop via Zoom: FREE

Draft SB City Telecom Ordinance Public Comment Deadline! SafeTechSBC Community Zoom Meeting

Happy New Year!

Come meet the SafeTechSBC team and environmental attorney, Mark Pollock who will be negotiating on our behalf with the SB City Attorney to amend the ordinance.

This is very important and everyone should know about this ordinance if they want to protect their homes from radio-frequency radiation antennas being installed in their front yards.

Tell your family, friends and neighbors about our website.

Before you attend, learn more on our website, review the talking points and send in your written public comment by Friday, January 15, 2021 on the "Take Action" page for City of Santa Barbara at: https://safetechsbc.org/take-action/city-of-santa-barbara/

Register for the zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduCvrzssE9KHMVY-Fib_3JTpGqJeOA97

Get a jump start. Here is a link to the Environmental Health Trust website with 10 STEPS TO SAFE TECH: https://ehtrust.org/educate-yourself/ten-steps-to-safe-tech/

Thank you!
SafeTechSBC

Finding Freedom with Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Jan 7 and Jan 14 (Thursday 7-9 PM) Finding Freedom with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Appreciated by students for his joy, insight, and clarity of presentation, Dawa Tarchin Phillips embodies the unique perspectives of Western scholarship and neuro-scientific research and the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama.

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