The Medicine of Hope

The Medicine of Hope:
Discovering Hope through Meditation on Emptiness
with Guest Teacher Gen Samten Kelsang

We live in an age of profound disconnection. Beneath the noise of a troubled world, many of us carry a quieter suffering - a feeling of isolation, of being separate, of being alone with our pain. Yet the Buddha taught that this sense of separation is not a fixed reality. It is a mistake - and one that can be undone.
This one-day seminar explores how meditation on emptiness gently dissolves the boundary we feel between ourselves and others. As that boundary softens, something unexpected arises in its place. Not just understanding, but warmth. Not just insight, but love. And where genuine love for others takes root, hope becomes not a wish but a living experience.
Come and discover why emptiness - perhaps the most misunderstood word in Buddhism - is not a teaching about nothingness, but about openness. The openness of your own mind. The openness of the future. And the possibility, closer than you think, of a life and a world transformed by love.

Session times:
10-11:15am
11:45-1pm
2:15-3:30pm (includes Q & A)
$25 / $15 for members