Marc of Healing Book Club: "The Book of Joy" by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
Thu, Dec 07
|Berkley
Be apart of our casual monthly Community Book Club at Marc of Healing, as we discuss the book, The Book of Joy" by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu


Time & Location
Dec 07, 2023, 7:00 PM
Berkley, 541 Berkley St, Berkley, MA 02779, USA
Guests
About the event
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering?
They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a…