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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Christine Kupfer – Week of February 26, 2024

Christine Kupfer

Christine Kupfer

We’re fortunate that Christine Kupfer has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions this week. To find out more about Christine, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s topic is “Fear and Fearlessness in the Midst of Uncertainty”

 

We try to secure our lives by any means necessary. We do our best, we tend to our business, and boom!, a crisis occurs.

 

Whether it’s an ecological, political, pandemic, professional, relational or spiritual crisis…  life does not leave us settled, bringing up a whole procession of fears and worries.

 

So how can we find peace? How can we become fearless? This is the theme we will explore this week on Sangha Live

Presence as the antidote to fear

February 26, 2024

Working with fear-based thoughts: 6 helpful steps

February 27, 2024

Daring to feel what we feel

February 28, 2024

Crossing the threshold of not knowing

February 29, 2024

Taking refuge

March 1, 2024

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