Online: Insight Out Refuge – LGBTQI Sangha – Consolations of the Triple Gem
with Jay Michaelson
Monday, October 25th, 2021 | 7:30pm-8:30pm ET
All friends and allies are invited to join the Insight OUT Refuge for this evening.
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.
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Teacher(s)
Jay Michaelson
Jay Michaelson has taught meditation for twenty years in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts. He is currently an editor at the Ten Percent Happier meditation startup, as well a columnist for New York Magazine. Jay was a member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Board of Directors for six years, and is authorized to teach in the lineage of Ayya Khema by his teacher, Leigh Brasington. He is also an ordained rabbi.
Jay is a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ Studies in Religion who worked as a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years. He holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University and a JD from Yale Law School.