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Insight Out Refuge – LGBTQI Sangha – Consolations of the Triple Gem
2021-10-25 Insight Out Refuge – LGBTQI Sangha – Consolations of the Triple Gem 27:23
Jay Michaelson
The Buddhadharma has many applications: liberation, ethical refinement, and also, in challenging times especially, refuge (sarana). Unlike secular modalities, the Dharma is not a set of tools; it is meant also to be a shelter from the storm that offers and emotional, even embodied, consolation. Building on the framework of the triple gem — the refuges in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha — this talk explores how the Dharma can console all of us, particular LGBTQ+ and allied folks, in the contexts of climate anxiety, pandemic trauma, and political polarization.
New York Insight Meditation Center

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