VIRTUAL TASTE OF BUDDHISM:
Pearls of Buddhist Wisdom, Episode 2
with Lennie Kronisch
Sunday, December 6th, 10:30am - 12pm
Facebook Livestream
Buddhist philosophy and psychology are filled with gems of reasoning, logic and helpful advice for navigating the roller coaster of life. A veritable toolkit of methods to improve one’s mind and attitude towards problems is at our fingertips, eloquently phrased, accessible skillful means that lead to increased happiness.
In this talk, we will examine opening the way for looking at things differently from our habits and assumptions, with suggestions to begin loosening rigid thinking.
About the Presenter:
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
Buddhist philosophy and psychology are filled with gems of reasoning, logic and helpful advice for navigating the roller coaster of life. A veritable toolkit of methods to improve one’s mind and attitude towards problems is at our fingertips, eloquently phrased, accessible skillful means that lead to increased happiness.
In this talk, we will examine opening the way for looking at things differently from our habits and assumptions, with suggestions to begin loosening rigid thinking.
About the Presenter:
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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