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Anja-Karina Pahl ~ Experiments in Gratitude: The 8 Gifts that Bring Joy to Your Mind & Peace to The World

You’re invited to join Anja to experiment with a new path to gratitude – a modern and very personal reframing of the traditional Buddhist Offering Practise in advance of her Christmas book release. During our evening, we’ll explore and share the 8 most simple, potent, gorgeous archetypes of gratitude, as gifts that all cultures understand. But in this experiment, we wonÕt receive gifts. We’ll give them. Millions of them.

Anja will share the exact set of skilful actions that is designed to rewire the brain, tackle the root of poverty-consciousness and heart-break, to stop it recurring in any form. We’ll then start testing how it might open the doorway to virtuous joy in our mind-heart, in the shortest possible time with the longest possible effects on everyone around us. Our aim after all, is not just to be grateful for things we receive, but to BE Gratitude itself – to embody it.

Anja-Karina Pahl inadvertently discovered mystic Christianity at an early age but has been a serious student of Vajrayana Buddhism since 2000, first with the Danish crazy wisdom teacher Ole Nydahl, and now with the Kagyupa lineage head, Thaye Dorje, H.H. the 17th Karmapa. For 25 years, she has been integrating their non-dual teachings and her own personal experience of applying them in daily life with research in modern physics and emerging philosophies of consciousness. She fervently believes we can re-envision and repair old conundrums in science and mind with this view – and vice versa, bring fresh Western insights into traditional Buddhist teachings. And, along the way, bathe in grace, gratitude & awe.

$10 – $20

Space is limited, so come early!

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