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The Practice of “Sending and Taking”

with Gaylon Ferguson, PhD

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What you'll learn

  • Learn how the ancient practice of “sending and taking” can help you meet others’ suffering with compassion and bolster your own confidence to be present with the pain you see in the world
  • Experience a guided practice session of “Sending and Taking” and learn from Dr. Ferguson’s decades of experience
  • Hear ways you can bring this practice into your life and cultivate your innate compassionate heart

About the speakers

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, has led group mindfulness-awareness meditation retreats since 1976. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Stanford and has taught Religious Studies for 15 years at Naropa University. He is the author of Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With and Natural Bravery: Fear and Fearlessness as Path to Awakening, and contributed the foreword to Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom.

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  • Thank you so very much for this tender, powerful exercise to strengthen and expand the heart’s very kernel – the hearts gyroscope of the human journey.

  • I am curious about ‘may all beings be free from suffering’ is suffering an inevitability of caring?
    (i.e., there is little grief without love for those we lose)
    and a rough road to wisdom that we might not otherwise arrive at?
    I feel in my work may all suffering have earliest release and reward with wisdom.
    Thanks for your work, I want to align with loving kindness and compassion in my work, I wish you well in your great work Gaylon.

  • Beautiful presentation, Gaylon. Your words helped me embody more fully in this practice.— greetings from Halifax

  • Thank you so much, my daughter (23) and I were listening to your meditation, she said its a life changing attitude🌻

  • It is a great honour to have had the chance to listen to someone who is radiating so much warmth and kindness. Thank you!

  • Very soothing using Pemas projecting to those we hope to be healed while easing pain in both directions. Thanks for hope.

  • Thank you for your compassionate gentle fierce tenderness. Your presence speaks the practice. I am grateful for the time you have put in on the cushion and for your sharing the results with us. Blessings.

  • Such a gift to hear and learn. I plan to use this in practice and hope to share with others in my family and professional sphere.

  • Thank you Gatlin for offering everyone who tuned in a daily practice to help uplift the world. Much love appreciated, Sue, Australia 🇦🇺

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