Teaching Schedule

Vesak 2568: Celebrating the Buddha, our Root Teacher
May
12
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Vesak 2568: Celebrating the Buddha, our Root Teacher

Monday Night Meditation & Talk
May 12
6:30-8:30pm Pacific
Spirit Rock, Online and On Land!

For over 35 years, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

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Vesak 2568: The Radical Message of Siddhattha Gotama 
May
18
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Vesak 2568: The Radical Message of Siddhattha Gotama 

Sunday, May 18 | 11am-12:30pm Pacific
Saṅgha Live, Online

I’m delighted to return to Saṅgha Live’s Sunday Saṅgha, with a guided meditation, Dharma teaching and Q&A. In celebration of Vesak (May 11) this year—Buddhist year 2568—I’ll tell some stories from the Buddha’s life and reflect on his extraordinary contribution to world culture, especially in support of nonviolence, justice, and equitable societies.

Freely offered on a donation/dāna basis.

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Seeing the Dhamma: How Practice Leads to Understanding
May
22
to Jun 19
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Seeing the Dhamma: How Practice Leads to Understanding

5 Thursdays, May 22 – June 19 | 4-5:30pm Pacific
New York Insight, online

Path Class 3 | In this series we will explore the core analytical lists of the marks, defilements, aggregates, and sense bases. The heart of this study is the practice of applied mindfulness, where we bring persistent, loving attention to the world as we experience it, with the aim to see how it works and be free of its snares.

You do not have to have taken the other courses in the series to take this one, and beginners are welcome.

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Breath, Body, and Awakening: Practicing the Ānāpānasati Sutta
Aug
7
to Sep 4
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Breath, Body, and Awakening: Practicing the Ānāpānasati Sutta

5 Thursdays, Jul 10 – Aug 7 | 1-3pm Pacific
Spirit Rock, Online

The class is part of our ongoing Pāli Canon study series, The Refuge of Dhamma: Exploring the Buddha’s Discourses. In this series we’ll read and practice with the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118), the Buddha’s original instructions for the practice of mindfulness of breathing.

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Heart Free as a Wild Deer: Meditation & Somatic Practice Retreat
Oct
1
to Oct 5

Heart Free as a Wild Deer: Meditation & Somatic Practice Retreat

Wed-Sun, Oct 1 – 5 , 2025
Shelterwood Retreat
Cazadero, CA

Our fall retreat this year is at the beautiful Shelterwood Collective in Cazadero, CA, in collaboration with Off Grid Retreats. Practicing largely outside, we will meditate in stillness and movement, and explore the Buddha’s teachings on the power of deep relationship with the wild, and solitude immersed in the forest.

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Monthly Book Club
Apr
18
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Monthly Book Club

Friday, April 18 | 8:30-10am Pacific
Online

Group study of the Buddha’s teachings in the Pāli Canon. Currently reading the Dīgha Nikāya, The Long Discourses of the Buddha. Included with Sangha membership.

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Monthly Book Club
Mar
28
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Monthly Book Club

Friday, March 28 | 8:30-10am Pacific
Online

Group study of the Buddha’s teachings in the Pāli Canon. Currently reading the Dīgha Nikāya, The Long Discourses of the Buddha. Included with Sangha membership.

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The Dharma talk by Sean Oakes was one of the best and most insightful that I have heard in a very long time. His presentation was so clear and it presented a new point of view that I had not thought about.  Not all suffering is the same.

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