Rebecca Bradshaw in Person – South Hadley, MA

Rebecca Bradshaw in Person – South Hadley, MA

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in South Hadley, MA. Happening on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at Odyssey Bookshop. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Join us on Wednesday, January 29 at 7 PM as Rebecca Bradshaw presents her book Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart.

About the Book

Buddhist teachings and heart-centered practices from the “feminine paradigm” to embrace receptivity and bring more balance to your life, relationships, and the world.

With deeply thoughtful, lyrical prose, this book invites readers to engage with the world from a unique perspective that encourages feeling, intuitive understanding, embodiment, interdependence, and sacredness. Weaving together classical Theravada Buddhist teachings and mindfulness practices, the book teaches us when and how to channel our receptive and active orientations—sometimes called the feminine and masculine paradigms—to feel more at home in ourselves and the world and drop more deeply into the Buddhist teachings on suffering and happiness.

Rebecca Bradshaw, a respected Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation community, offers teachings that are simple yet require us to explore aspects of ourselves that go against much of our social conditioning that values goal-oriented busyness, productivity, independence, outgoing energy, and other “active” qualities. When overemphasized, this orientation can cause destructive emotions and behaviors, but we can counter them by embracing more receptive qualities. The receptive or feminine paradigm takes us deeper into the heart of the classical Buddhist teachings, leading to openness and freedom of the heart-mind.

Bradshaw illustrates her own resistance to letting go of her strong active orientation with relatable stories, like her efforts to be a perfect meditator. Drawing on our connectedness to nature, she offers guidance for grounded practices, including:

  • useless gazing,
  • getting lost,
  • sense-based reality,
  • practicing in the wildness,
  • accepting uncertainty, and more.

These Buddhist teachings are as comforting as they are thought-provoking. Bradshaw’s debut book helps us let go and nurture our ability to receive, listen, embrace vulnerability, and just be. Through this process, we heal the imbalances within ourselves and in our relationships to all beings and the natural world.

About the Author

REBECCA BRADSHAW is Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Insight Meditation Society and the Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts. She has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1983 and teaching since 1993. Bradshaw has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and has worked as a mental health counselor.

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Event ID - 1083176723739

Event Venue - Odyssey Bookshop

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Event City - South Hadley

Event State - MA

 

Date And Time

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 @ 07:00 PM (EST)
 

Venue

Odyssey Bookshop
 

Location

9 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075
 

Event Category

Massachusetts

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