limited engagements through 2026 🙏
limited engagements through 2026 🙏
The Mind of No Conflict
Inspired by a phrase used by Sayadaw U Jagara during a recent retreat, we will take “a mind with no conflict” as the starting point for our meditation at this Friday Dharma Gathering, and follow the thread to see what such a mind might reveal. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
How to Ask For What You Want: A 6-week Wheel of Consent Course
I’m excited to assist Max Pearl and Sasha Lasdon for their upcoming 6-week guided practice laboratory that is BIPOC & gender-expansive centered to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®.
Restoring Connection: A LGBTQIA2S+ Community Dhamma Retreat in Nature
A 7-day silent meditation retreat with Victoria Cary, René Rivera, and Kuan Luo for the LGBTQIA2S+ community at Vallecitos, NM from Septemeber 1-7, 2024. Supported by the natural world, the Dhamma, practice and each other, we will reconnect with our belonging and essential goodness as LGBTQIA2S+ people.
BIPOC Nature Dharma and Insight Retreat with bruni dávila, Ram Appalaraju and Kuan Luo
A 5-day nature retreat with bruni dávila, Ram Appalaraju and Kuan Luo for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in the northern Sierra Mountains in a rural retreat center. Each day will include meditation, earth-based practices, deep discussions on our relationship to the natural world, and guided exploration of the surrounding 170-acre forested lands.
Coming Home: A Meditation Backpacking Pilgrimage with Kirsten Rudestam and Kuan Luo
A 5-day meditation backpacking pilgrimage with Kirsten Rudestam and Kuan Luo in the in the Gifford Pinchot Wilderness, lands long stewarded by the Cayuse, Yakama, Umatilla, Walla Walla peoples and many others.
Uposatha: Moon Days Practice (online)
Through the rest of the year, we will continue gathering on new moon and full moon days to observe Uposatha days. See event detail for the dates and times. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
New Moon Practice (online)
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of practice on the new moon on Monday, July 17. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Dharma Questions and Responses
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of dharma questions and responses. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
New Moon Practice (online)
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of practice on the new moon on Sunday, May 21. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Full Moon Practice (online)
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of practice on the full moon on Friday, May 5th. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Dharma Gathering: Conditions of Samadhi
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of practice on Conditions of Samadhi on Friday, April 14th. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Dharma Gathering: Wise Effort
You’re warmly invited to join for an hour of practice on Wise Effort on Friday, March 31st. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Dharma Gathering: Wise Intention (online)
You’re warmly invited to join for a half-day of practice and to start the new year with Wise Intentions on Saturday, January 7th. The gathering will be hosted online via the Buddhist Geeks Network, and will be offered freely.
Equanimity as Path and Realization with White Oaks Sangha (online)
What is equanimity? What are the different types of equanimity in the Buddhist teaching? How relevant is equanimity in our time? In this Friday's Dharma Gathering, we will explore equanimity as the path and the fruit of practice through a short dharma talk, a social practice and some time for discussion.
“What I do here matters. Everybody lives downstream”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass