Love Your Enemies
Challenging Assumptions & Breaking Bias
Sunday, September 29, 2024
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
Registration is closed.
What does it really mean to love your enemies? What is the promise of breaking bias? In a world that seems increasingly governed by enmity, lovingkindness often isn’t seen as a power but as a terrible weakness. To the untrained heart and mind, lovingkindness may be associated with giving in, being subservient, or having no boundaries. But when we investigate the energy of love, it has a real strength to it.
In this online workshop, we invite you to explore human identities and identity-based biases and use lovingkindness to dismantle learned bias within ourselves and in the world around us. From that understanding we can take steps away from the rigid, prevailing "Us-versus-Them" animosity, embrace intensified interconnection and celebrate our true human diversity. We can transcend the notion that rejecting enmity implies weakness and seek creative solutions to conflicts.
Through discourse, discussion and meditation practice, we will reflect on how we view lovingkindness, adversity, and our own assumptions about ourselves and others.
Meet Your Teachers
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com
Anu Gupta
Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology benefit corporation that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors to advance DEIB and wellness by breaking bias. A gay immigrant of color, Anu is a trained meditation and yoga teacher with over 10,000 hours of meditation practice and has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in International Relations and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from NYU. Rooted in his ancestral Buddhist and Kriya yoga lineages, he is also a student of Sufi, Daoist, Christian, and animist wisdom. He lives in New York City with his partner.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com
Anu Gupta
Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology benefit corporation that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors to advance DEIB and wellness by breaking bias. A gay immigrant of color, Anu is a trained meditation and yoga teacher with over 10,000 hours of meditation practice and has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in International Relations and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from NYU. Rooted in his ancestral Buddhist and Kriya yoga lineages, he is also a student of Sufi, Daoist, Christian, and animist wisdom. He lives in New York City with his partner.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com
Anu Gupta
Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology benefit corporation that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors to advance DEIB and wellness by breaking bias. A gay immigrant of color, Anu is a trained meditation and yoga teacher with over 10,000 hours of meditation practice and has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in International Relations and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from NYU. Rooted in his ancestral Buddhist and Kriya yoga lineages, he is also a student of Sufi, Daoist, Christian, and animist wisdom. He lives in New York City with his partner.
More Information
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Equity Pricing Model
As one part of our ongoing effort to expand access to the teachings of the Buddha, all IMS Online programs feature equity-based registration fees, including the opportunity to self-select a low-cost scholarship rate. No-fee enrollment is available for those who request a fee-waiver at imsonline@dharma.org, no questions asked. Our system supports the cultivation of a dynamic and inclusive community and is made possible by our generous donors and those who choose to support other students by contributing at the “Benefactor” level.
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Registration Deadline
Registration for this program closes on September 29, 2024 at 12 pm ET.
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Program Recordings
This program will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing after the live sessions. On-demand videos will be available to registered participants only for 90 days.
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Additional Questions
If you have additional questions please contact us at imsonline@dharma.org.