Event Description
The Drexel Meditation Group and A Healthier U would like to invite you to join us for a talk and workshop on meditation. This event is appropriate for beginners and experienced meditators alike.
Come experience a brief introduction to some basic meditation techniques followed by a discussion of why we meditate and what we are hoping to achieve. Is meditation "useful?" What if we abandoned the idea of usefulness and just meditated instead? Why meditate at all if we may never achieve anything? This workshop and discussion session will provide participants with an introduction to meditation as well as an open-ended inquiry into why we meditate in the first place. While this workshop might not "solve" anything or clear up our doubts, it will provide a basis for looking carefully at what we expect from our meditation practice in our daily lives.
Our speaker Glenn Wallis holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University's Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies He. is currently associate professor and chair of the Applied Meditation Studies program at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies. Perhaps more notably, Glenn is amongst the founders of RUIN, a legendary music sensation hailed as the first "Buddhist punk rock band"
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