Weekly Dharma Classes
Pathway to Presence:
Exploring Mindfulness through the Middle Way
Description: This class integrates ancient and contemporary perspectives on the Buddha’s Middle Way to deepen our capacity for awareness and to rest in it as a foundation for happiness, freedom and well-being.
Schedule: Mondays 5:45 pm PT / 8:45 pm ET
Web of Wakening: Expanding from Personal to Planetary Selfhood
Description: This class explores how we can reawaken and revision our belonging to the vast web of life and respond to the ecological crises of our times with lucid awareness, liberating compassion and luminous wisdom.
Schedule: Tuesdays 4:45 am PT / 7:45 am ET
Calm in Chaos: Steadying the Heart-Mind amid Stress and Anxiety
Description: This class blends classical Buddhism and contemporary neurobiology to support settling the body, soothing the heart and steadying the mind in the face of personal and collective sources of stress and anxiety.
Schedule: Thursdays 4:45 am PT / 7:45 am ET
Weekly Dharma Class Fee
The monthly fee for each class is USD27.50! Participants have the option to contribute more—in keeping with the Buddhist practice of generosity or dana.
Other Offerings
Daily Meditations
Description: Join a global community of mindfulness practitioners who sit together daily. Teachers offer live guided meditations six times a week.
Schedule: Daily 11:00 pm PT / 2:00 am ET
Individual Mentoring
Description: Cultivate a space for in-depth personal exploration where I accompany you as you walk your own path to happiness, freedom and well-being.
Schedule: By appointment
Group Workshops
Description: Have tailored group sessions that invite collective explorations of mindfulness, compassion and wisdom in ways that fit your organization’s needs.
Schedule: By appointment
Latest Posts
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On Rejoicing Vicariously
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we concluded our exploration of the expressions of joy in the dharma by focusing on muditā—the joy that we feel when we… Continue reading
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On Contemplating Decay
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we moved to the final exercises listed under the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta’s section on mindfulness of the body, which involve contemplating the body in the… Continue reading
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On the Limits of Agency
Dearest Friends, In our last gathering, we concluded our exploration of the Five Remembrances by turning our attention to the Fifth: “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the… Continue reading
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On Inviting Tranquility
Dearest Friends, It was deeply nourishing to be in your gracious company again at our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued exploring the expressions of joy in the dharma as a way of expanding our capacity to meet, hold… Continue reading
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On the Four Elements
Dearest Friends, It was a pleasure to be in your gracious company again in our last gathering. In our last session, we moved to the fifth exercise listed under the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta’s section on mindfulness of the body, which involves reflecting on its… Continue reading
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On Honoring Loss
Dearest Friends, In our ongoing journey through the Five Remembrances, we turned our attention to the Fourth Remembrance in our last gathering: “Everything and everyone dear to my heart, I will be parted from someday.” For many practitioners, this particular… Continue reading
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On Inviting Rapture
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued exploring the expressions of joy in the dharma as a way of expanding our ability to meet, hold and transform… Continue reading
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On Bodily Contemplations
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we moved to the fourth exercise listed under the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta’s section on mindfulness of the body, which involves the somewhat unusual practice… Continue reading
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On Honoring Death
Dearest Friends, It’s always a gift to gather in shared reflection with all of you. In our ongoing exploration of The Five Remembrances, we turned to the Third Remembrance in our last session: the truth of dying. The Upajjhatthana Sutta… Continue reading
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On the Varieties of Joy
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again at our most recent gathering! In our last session, we began a new series of explorations focused on the expressions of joy in the dharma. Like I shared in… Continue reading
