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Sunday Sangha – 9th November 2025

This session is led by Diana Winston.

Start Time: 11 am PST (LA) / 2 pm EST (NY) / 7 pm GMT (London) / 8 pm CET (Paris). 90-minute live session.

This week’s theme: Becoming a Bodhisattva

This talk will explore the archetype of the Bodhisattva- a being dedicated to waking up and cultivating wisdom and compassion for the sake of all beings. We will first see how it manifests itself in Buddhist history and teachings, and then tackle important questions: How is it relevant to the suffering in our current times? Might we be one already? Or do we want to become one? If so, how?

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Diana Winston

Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health. She is the author of The Little Book of Being (2019), Wide Awake for Teens (2003), and the co-author, with Susan Smalley of Fully Present (2022).

Called by the LA Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” Diana has taught mindfulness since 1993 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. Additionally, she has been teaching retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California since 2004.

A sought-after speaker, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation, which trained over 500 mindfulness teachers worldwide.

She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma.

Diana can be found on the UCLA Mindful, Waking Up, and Happier apps. Click here to learn more about Diana Winston.

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