Ubuntu and Brahma Viharas: Weaving Ancient African Spirituality and Buddhism
Join Original Medicine 4-Part Series and guest teacher Nobantu Mpotulo for an introduction to the age old African Wisdom of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is about inter-connectedness and inter-beingness. Ubuntu promotes non-duality and using the heart to connect with all beings seen and unseen. We will explore how to use Ubuntu to bring the Brahma Viharas alive.
About The Original Medicine 4-Part Series
This program is a psycho-spiritual cross-cultural mindfulness approach to the teachings that weave together Indigenous Wisdom, Mindfulness, and Earth-based practices in order to integrate seasons and the transitions between the seasons as cross-cultural mindfulness tools. In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silence, being in nature, and conducting rituals to acknowledge the coming changes in the world around them and within themselves.
Prior participation in previous OM 4-Part Sessions not required.
This event registration is for the Original Medicine 4-Part Series - Winter Season on Saturday, January 20 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific Time).
A Zoom Link will be sent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, prior to the event. Please check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the zoom link.
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.
Nobantu Mpotulo has been a Buddhist practitioner and a teacher for over 20 years. She is trained in the insight mindfulness practices. She is also an Insight Dialogue Teacher and integrates Insight Dialogue with Ubuntu an ancient African Indigenous Wisdom which emphasizes interdependence and non-duality. Nobantu is also a Diamond Approach student and in her practice of Diamond Approach she uses Enneagram to support her. She is a certified Enneagram Teacher. Nobantu is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leadership Programme (CDL 4 Cohort), she has also completed the Dharmapala Programme under the tutelage of Kittisaro and Thanissara. She is a Trustee at Dharmagiri. Nobantu promotes Afro-dharma in her Buddhist teachings by integrating Ubuntu. Nobantu is an internationally acclaimed coach, mentor, facilitator and leads peace circles.
Her favorite quote is by Victor Frankl,
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom."