What are the inner and outer expressions of healing from Buddhist and Jewish perspectives? What do these wisdom traditions share in their teachings about moving from a place of suffering to a path to peace? Join us for an evening of innerfaith exploration, dialogue and meditation.

Presented by The Seattle Jewish-Buddhist Dialogue with the Center for Spiritual Living

Suggested Donation: $7

Participants have the option of sitting in chairs or bringing their own cushions for meditation.

Venerable Thubten Chodron is Spiritual Director of Dharma Friendship Foundation. Ordained as a Tibetan nun in 1977, she travels the world as a teacher of Buddhism and meditation, including most recently her third trip to Israel. Her books include Open Heart, Clear Mind, What Color is Your Mind? and Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun.

Rabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D is rabbi of Bet Alef Meditational Synagogue and a practicing psychotherapist. Founder of two synagogues for Jewish Meditation, and rabbi for 31 years, he travels extensively teaching Kabbalistic approaches to Jewish identity and tradition. He is author of A Journey of Awakening: 49 Steps from Enslavement to Freedom.

The Seattle Jewish-Buddhist Dialogue (SJBD) is a community-based innerfaith and cross-cultural project dedicated to an educational and spiritual exploration of common ground shared between the religious traditions of Buddhism and Judaism and the cross-cultural connections between Tibetan and Jewish experiences. The SJBD was founded by Bet Alef Meditational Synagogue, Dharma Friendship Foundation, and Tibet Education Network at Global Source. Ven. Thubten Chodron and Rabbi Ted Falcon are spiritual leaders of The Seattle Jewish-Buddhist Dialogue.