Events

Our 2025 Winter Zoom Program Series with Paul Weiss,   beginning December 5 and 7, includes our regular Thursday evening talk paired with our regular Saturday morning meditation group.  You're welcome to either or both.

      **Watch for other new programs in the new year.**

At the Heart of Everything

Zoom Talk and Study Group                                                         

Thursdays at 7pm EDT-- begins December 5   

 Saturday meditation at 8am EDT-- begins December 7

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Our spiritual practice is ultimately nothing less than........

Our spiritual practice is ultimately nothing less than learning to look, listen, and feel into the heart of everything.

And to discover that we – each of us – are none other than the conscious heart of a responsive universe.. At this challenging time, in which many are disheartened by the prospects for our country and for our human future; when we see violence, oppression, and dehumanization still so prevalent, and humane response seemingly so weak; when discouragement and despair so easily find their convincing way into our lives, and we are victimized by our own sense of helplessness – it is more important than ever to know Who We Are!

Our nervous systems are structured so that our moods, feelings, and mental states easily become defined by externalized events, past and present – distorting our inherent sense of an integral and compassionately empowered self.

But that is a mirage. A mirror image of the truth. And we can only dispel that mirage by learning to see through our structures of projection and separation that disempower us; and to see into the open, awake, unified, and responsive nature of our true being.

This is not a weekend event or a vague ideal. It is a passionate life commitment to learning, clarity, and practice. And one which we can support in each other. Then our seeing becomes open and penetrating; potent and ever more humane.

Then our grief becomes activated as passionate and compassionate grief.

And our despair becomes Fierce Despair – wild with the fire and commitment of our true nature. Just as a heat pump extracts heat from the seeming cold, our fierceness extracts fire from the ice of our despair.

Then we are not identified with our feelings, inadequacies, and sufferings.

Nor do we bypass our feelings, inadequacies, and sufferings. We learn to become fiercely available to them. Because the One who is available is not the one who is suffering!

The One who is available is our innate presence, awareness, and willingness – our essential nature of Being at the heart of everything..

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This will be a complete and many sided training and practice together. And we will cut no corners.

It begins by learning and practicing seeing into and listening into. And it concludes with the recognition and liberation of our responsive being.

This will be a sustained Zoom program event interweaving both our Thursday evening and Saturday morning programs; and we'll soon be sharing a bit of an outline of its extensive content.

Thursday evenings at 7:00 will incorporate both teachings and meditation.

And Saturday mornings at 8:00 will take our practice and meditation deeper.

We will be continually practicing and re-integrating.

So whether you can join us right away, or whether you need more lead time to arrange your schedule, you will not lose out.

Our intention is to provide nothing less than a complete, painstaking, and direct path to enlightened living – interweaving in a practical and wholly informal way the fundamental teachings of Buddhist vajrayana and all of the wisdom traditions.

We hope many of our old friends can regather. And we ask that you share this coming event with a relevant mailing list, if you happen to have one; or with at least one other person who might be interested.

Let's be fierce together.

As much as we are able, we wish to make our online programs freely available to all.  If you are not able to contribute at this time – or if you are 'just testing the waters' – you are still welcome to join either or both Thursday and Saturday programs.

But we also need your support to continue our work.  If you are in a position to commit and to contribute, here are three options:

1.$175 for this full training program, which will go through the winter

2.Become a subscribing member, entitling you to all programs at one of these monthly rates:

         $25 monthly

         $40 monthly

         $60 monthly

         other

3. A single donation

We thank you in advance.  And in all cases, we look forward to you joining us.