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 Releasing Isolation
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presence and participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued our exploration of how the Buddhist teaching on the The Three Marks of Existence can help us release stress and… Continue reading
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On the Myth of More
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company at our most recent gathering. As we begin our exploration of the Buddhist teaching on the Five Hindrances and how it can be fruitful in relating to the ecological… Continue reading
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On Wanting More
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we focused our attention on the first of the Five Hindrances, which is the hindrance of sensual desire (kāmacchanda). Broadly speaking,… Continue reading
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On Pooling Wisdom
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again at our most recent gathering. Over the years, we’ve explored a multitude of ways to meet, release and transform stress and anxiety, drawing on sources ranging from classical Buddhism… Continue reading
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On Artificial Intelligence
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company at our most recent gathering. Since our sangha was founded, our conversations have focused largely on the ecological crises of our times and what they ask of us as… Continue reading
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On the Five Hindrances
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again at our most recent gathering. Having explored the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta’s exercises on the body (kāya), the feeling tones (vedanā) and the mental states (citta), we directed our attention in… Continue reading
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On Cultivating Trust
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation at our most recent gathering. In last week’s session, we explored what it might mean to befriend uncertainty and how trusting ourselves, other human beings and life itself can be… Continue reading
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On Divine Play
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation at our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued working with the question that was posed weeks ago by one of the members of our sangha: “How do… Continue reading
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On Mental States
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. Having explored the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta’s exercises on the body (kāya) and the feeling tones (vedanā), we shifted our attention in our last session towards its… Continue reading
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On Befriending Uncertainty
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again at our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued our explorations of how the Buddhist teaching on The Three Marks of Existence can support us in meeting… Continue reading
