A Morning with Kuan Yin: the Refuge of Great Compassion
Key Info
This offering will be on Saturday Oct 3rd from 9am - 12pm PT
This is an online event for folks of all levels of practice and will be facilitated over Zoom.
Registration for this event will close on Friday Oct 2nd at 9pm PT
This offering is shared shared on a tiered based contribution scale to support some compensation to teachers and SMS' operational costs. There will be an opportunity to give dana and additional support to the teachers at the end of the offering.
This offering will be recorded and recordings will be shared with registered participants.
Offering Description
Many of us have found refuge in Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva of compassion. This relationship manifests in various forms and expressions, offering us different doorways that point us back to the heart’s refuge of compassion and deep listening.
Whatever your relationship to this Bodhisattva, we invite you to join us in exploring this connection. During our three hours together, we will engage in practices of chanting, meditation, and reflection. We will share stories of mysterious responses, how Kuan Yin appears within Buddhist teachings, and how we might strengthen our sense of refuge with the “one who listens to the cries of the world”.
Led by Elaine Yeh, emiko yoshikami, and Kareem Ghandour.
All are warmly welcome.
Facilitators
Elaine Yeh
During her 33 years as a Buddhist nun, Elaine (she/her) worked on translating Chinese Buddhist texts, served as principal at Instilling Goodness and Developing Virtue Schools, and taught at Dharma Realm Buddhist University. She holds an MA in Buddhist Classics from Dharma Realm Buddhist University, an MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Sonoma State University. In recent years she has been exploring how Buddhist and depth psychology approaches can work together to bring about meaningful self-transformation and lay the foundations for Kuan Yin's great compassion.
emiko yoshikami
emiko (she/they/ki/kin) is blessed to have many Dharma streams flow through their life. Ki was raised in the Western Insight tradition and ancestrally comes from a long lineage of Jodo Shinshu priests. She is a strong devotee of Kuan Yin and a graduate of East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership program, and Sacred Mountain Sangha’s Dharmapala Training. Ki currently resides in a Dharma home lovingly called the Weirdo Queerdo Monastery and aspires to co-create a place of refuge and engaged practice.
Kareem Ghandour (he/him) is a Lebanese/Palestinian teacher, facilitator, and artist based in the UK. His teaching is inspired by contemplative creativity, ritual, and devotional practice. He has worked with youth and in mindfulness based education projects for the last decade, including serving as managing director for iBme UK. He is a member of the collaborative staff team at Sacred Mountain Sangha and a graduate of the 2 year Dharmapala training. He is a co-founder of the Sacred Justice Coalition and the SWANA+ Sangha, co-creating new dharma cultures to meet times of genocide and collapse. His most recent work is in exploring ways of bridging dharma with Palestinian liberation theology and lineages of sacred activism