VIRTUAL TASTE OF BUDDHISM:
COVID 19 and the Chronic Fear Virus
with Lennie Kronisch
Sunday, April 12, 10:30am - 12pm
Facebook Livestream
Living in this time of the national and global emergency of COVID-19, we are stunned and alarmed by the daily barrage of news bulletins, recommendations and cancellations of what we know as normal life. Many of us are feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and fear that threatens to become chronic as we are forced to live with long-term uncertainty. Buddhist philosophy offers a framework to rationally hold whatever is happening, and a multitude of practical methods of working with an out-of-control state of mind. Using everyday events as ‘grist for the mill’, we can move out of mindsets that block our ability to respond to even a pandemic in the most helpful way, while maintaining a calm mind that will only benefit ourselves and others.
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About Lennie
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi ), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home . She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
Facebook Livestream
Living in this time of the national and global emergency of COVID-19, we are stunned and alarmed by the daily barrage of news bulletins, recommendations and cancellations of what we know as normal life. Many of us are feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and fear that threatens to become chronic as we are forced to live with long-term uncertainty. Buddhist philosophy offers a framework to rationally hold whatever is happening, and a multitude of practical methods of working with an out-of-control state of mind. Using everyday events as ‘grist for the mill’, we can move out of mindsets that block our ability to respond to even a pandemic in the most helpful way, while maintaining a calm mind that will only benefit ourselves and others.
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About Lennie
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi ), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home . She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
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Your generous donations are essential for the continuation of online teaching programs in these challenging times. Of course, tickets are not necessary and all are welcome to attend online. Thank you!
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