Live from Southern Dharma: Sister Clear Grace
July 4, 2022
Southern Dharma has expanded its program offerings to include live sessions with local Dharma teachers, as well as offerings from our residential retreat teachers. Live from Southern Dharma episodes may include meditation and meditation instructions, chanting, Dharma talks from our teachers and other practices they may have to share.
Live from Southern Dharma is offered to the public on a Dana (generosity) basis, and there is no fee for registration. Donations for the teacher are greatly appreciated. Participation in each session is limited to the first 100 users to join the call.
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The Dharma calls us to be more than Buddhists; more than activists, more than mindful, and more than practitioners. It points us somewhere in the middle. If we are going to be truly present in the world, with its suffering, and with its beauty, we should be both and neither. Indeed, much is required of us by way of compassionate action. We have been practicing for these forever unprecedented times, and the dharma gives us the tools we need to be in the world but not of the world.
This is why Ven. Clear Grace Dayananda left the brick-and-mortar monastery to answer a calling that has led them on this journey toward what they call “barefoot Buddhism.” But they are taking the monastery with them!
Please join Ven. Clear Grace as they share their profound practice of “Giving That Which is Hard to Give” and the rich insights gained while traveling around the country as a black, gender-nonbinary “Traveling Nunk.”
Sister Clear Grace is a Buddhist Monk who received novice ordination in 2018 as Sister True Moon of Clear Grace in the Plum Village Vietnamese Zen tradition headed by the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2020, she received higher ordination and carries forward both the Theravada and Mahayana lineages of her preceptor, Venerable Dr. Pannavati Karuna of whom she was transmitted the name Dayananda.
The Dharma has been her greatest source of insight and transformation to heal from injustice and suffering of all kinds. She shares these learned truths to help others unlearn deeply embedded beliefs that have kept them away from the liberation of such sufferings in daily life. She shares these integrative skills, understandings, wisdom traditions and worldviews to help alleviate suffering for self and all beings.
Formerly a successful executive managing corporate operations, key people training and systems development, she now manages her mobile monastery operations and TravelingNunk.org as she continues to provide spiritual guidance and training to lay persons and monastics in her travels across the country.
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