Christin's Behind-the-Scenes Sunday 🎥
Helping people of Asian descent succeed in the workplace with their authentic selves, modernizing the eightfold path
Dear Ones,
Can you believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving (for the US) already?! 2021 has really flown by.
3-Bullets* Update:
Christine (my co-founder) and I have been working on “niche-ing down” our first course for Compassion Accelerator.
After an invigorating jam board session, we realized that we really want to focus on helping people of Asian descent succeed in the workplace with their authentic selves.
Our next step is finding potential users to understand their perspectives (so we actually build something useful, as they say.) Does this topic resonate with you or someone you know? Please *reply* to this email and we would love an opportunity to listen to you (~15-20 min interview, 5 questions!)
3-Bullets Up-Close**:
I’m taking a Sati Center for Buddhist Studies course on Wise Speech, one of the components of the Noble Eightfold Path. (Live Notes here!)
It reminded me of my interest in modernizing the language of the Buddha’s core teachings so that more usable for me. I had written it as part of my Codex Vitae about 2 years ago. For example, “wise speech” in Pali is samma vaca, and “vaca” means words/sentences literally. So what it really means in modern parlance is “wise communication,” and can encompass writing and digital communications too. There’s so many possibilities on making the teachings more relatable to modern people!
It felt preposterous to think that I, a non-Buddhist scholar, can attempt a modern interpretation of the fundamental tenets of Buddhist teachings…and yet I feel a calling to do so. It would be wiser of me to be more active on the Sutta Central forums (where monastics and really Buddhist people hang out) to test whether this attempt will be appreciated…or should I just go ahead and do it? What will this even look like? (A little website? A very short book?) Part of me just wants to MAKE something without caring too much about who’s going to read it. Yet another part is pointing at her calendar and the to-do list…
What all is on your to-do list before the year ends???
Warm Wishes,
Christin
*I have more updates but this newsletter is getting kind of long and I want to keep it short-and-sweet. So I’m changing this to a 3-bullet update instead of a 3-item update. Thanks for your understanding!
** I renamed this because apparently the word “vulnerability” has a negative connotation to some…let me know if you disagree though!