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A four-week live series · Begins August 12
Fearless Foundations: The Four Faces of Courage in the Dharma
With Eileen Tupaz
Courage isn't about being aggressive, daring or headstrong—it's about cultivating the capacity to face reality, relinquish attachments, open the heart and meet impermanence with equanimity.
What you'll practice and learn
Why this series?
This four-session series explores classical teachings that illuminate courage as a path of wisdom and compassion.
Through reflection, meditation and dialogue, participants will discover how courage arises naturally when we see clearly, release clinging, extend compassion and embrace the truth of mortality.
The arc of the series
Four weeks of 1-hour sessions
Week 1 — The courage to see clearly
August 12th, 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern
Here, we explore how the path teaches us to face reality with awareness and insight.
Week 2 — The courage to let go
August 19th, 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern
Here, we examine how to renounce clinging and meet change with compassion.
Week 3 — The courage to be compassionate
August 26th, 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern
Here, we explore how to open the heart to all beings.
Week 4 — The courage to face death
September 2nd, 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern
Here, we examine how to meet mortality with equanimity and resolve.
What each session looks like
Session format
Each session is one hour long.
A guided meditation (15–20 minutes)
To settle into the week's quality directly and experience the teaching in an embodied way.
Journaling
An opportunity to relfect on the teachings more deeply with a journaling prompt
A dharma talk (10-15 minutes)
The heart of each session, where your teacher unpacks the material and how to carry it into everyday life
Sharing and discussion
Space to ask, share, and hear how the practice is landing for others.
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Meet your teacher
Eileen Tupaz
I’ve been supporting people in the life-long labor of growing lotuses from mud, transforming poisons into antidotes and turning arrows into flowers since 2011—and I love providing this support in the form of teaching, mentoring and coaching.
I’m passionate about helping people feel safe (enough) with themselves and in the world so that they can embody and express their highest intentions. I tend to lean on mindfulness-based, body-centered and psychotherapy-inspired approaches in doing this work—but I’ll rhapsodize unabashedly about the dharma if I’m given the chance (so be duly warned!).
Outside of the Triple Gem, I take refuge in music (which I play badly), poetry (which I read avidly) and writing (which I indulge regularly).
Join this series, or become a member
Four live sessions, all recordings, and practices you'll return to for years — $80.
Want to commit to this and future series? Banyan Commons members get this series — and a new series every month, plus live meditation every weekday — for just $20/month. You'll retain access as long as you're a member.
Dharmette: Fearless Foundations
Four live one-hour sessions with Eileen Tupaz. Wednesdays: Aug 12 · Aug 19 · Aug 26 · Sep 2
All session recordings — yours to keep
Guided meditations you can return to anytime
