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 Cultivating Awe
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our continuing exploration of the self-transcendent emotions, we turned to awe—the feeling that arises when we encounter vastness, mystery or majesty. Awe resonates with… Continue reading
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On Navigating Self
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we continued our exploration of the teaching of non-self (anattā). As I shared previously, the truth of non-self can be summarized… Continue reading
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On Minding the Body
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we continued our explorations of how the body can be a support for meeting stress and anxiety, focusing specifically on interoception… Continue reading
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On Radical Reciprocity
Dearest Friends, It was such good medicine to be in your gracious company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued our explorations of the self-transcendent emotions, i.e., the emotions that reduce our preoccupation with ourselves and shift… Continue reading
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On the Truth of Non-Self
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we continued our exploration of the breath as a support for generating liberating insight (vipassanā), focusing specifically on how the breath… Continue reading
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On Breathing for Tranquility
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we continued our explorations of how the body can be a support for meeting stress and anxiety, focusing specifically on the breath and why… Continue reading
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On Bodhisattva Vows
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we began a series of explorations on what psychologists refer to as the self-transcendent emotions, i.e., expansive emotions that reduce our… Continue reading
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On the Truth of Impermanence
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we began our exploration of the breath as a support for generating liberating insight (vipassanā), focusing specifically on how the breath can offer us… Continue reading
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On Embodied Awareness
Dearest Friends, Thank you for the gift of your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we began our exploration of how the body can be a profound support for meeting stress and anxiety—starting with a… Continue reading
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On Transforming Shame
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we explored our experiences of ecological guilt, focusing on the suffering that arises when we’re acutely aware of our ongoing… Continue reading
