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Apr 2022
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La Sarmiento on Suffering to Acceptance

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About this episode

La Sarmiento has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1998. They are the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington’s BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Sanghas, a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and Cloud Sangha, a contributor to the Ten Percent Happier app, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader Training Program.

In this episode, Eric and La discuss how to move from suffering to acceptance and belonging through mindfulness practices.

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La Sarmiento and I Discuss Suffering and Acceptance and…

  • Finding connection and acceptance with someone who has very different beliefs
  • Their feeling of not belonging in the dominant culture
  • When they decided to claim their belonging
  • Their important work helping teens 
  • How they intentionally doesn’t prepare her Dharma talks ahead of time
  • The questions to ask when suffering 
  • How being mindful doesn’t mean doing it right, it’s being aware of what you’re doing
  • Taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and Sangha helps them to remember to mindful
  • The practice of learning to be more comfortable with being uncomfortable
  • How the dominant culture needs to better understand inclusion and assimilation
  • How their dog Casey opened her heart

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