Embracing the Unwanted
How to Work with Challenging People and Situations
Sunday, March 10, 2024
1:30pm – 3:30pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
in person and online
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Whether at work or in our social lives, we inevitably have
to face difficult people and undesired situations, and yet,
according to Buddhist teachings, these challenges have the
potential to become a wellspring of opportunity to deepen
our practice and enhance our wellbeing.
In this session we will examine how to modify our perception
of such difficult circumstances and thus deepen our
awareness of the dimensions for learning that are not
immediately evident to us. We’ll also examine the practical
steps we can take to apply that new understanding to welcome
and respond more effectively to those things we usually find
unwelcome.
Don Handrick has been a full-time touring teacher for the
FPMT since 2021, sharing the Dharma with centers and study
groups in North America and other parts of the world, both
in-person and online. From 2006 through 2020, he served as
the resident teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling Center in Santa
Fe, NM. During that time, he also taught regularly at
Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center in Taos, NM, and
volunteered for the Liberation Prison Project, teaching
Buddhism once a month at a prison in nearby Santa
Rosa. Beginning in 2016, Don became a touring teacher for
half of each year, visiting and teaching at other centers
around the world. Since 2012 he has been an active member of
the Interfaith Leadership Alliance of Santa Fe.
Don has received teachings from many esteemed lamas in the
Tibetan Buddhist tradition including His Holiness the Dalai
Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ribur Rinpoche, Choden Rinpoche,
and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. In 1998 he attended the FPMT's
Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra and Tantra, a
seven-year residential study program conducted at
Lama Tzong Khapa Institute
in Tuscany, Italy, and taught by Geshe Jampa
Gyatso. He successfully completed all five subjects of this
program in 2004, receiving an FPMT final certificate with
high honors. In 2015, he had the honor of being selected to
lead the renowned November Course, a one-month teaching and
meditation retreat held annually at Kopan Monastery in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
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