Online meditation group

A 3-week DharmaWeb course preparing for summer retreat This three-week course introduces three core meditation practices that support the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings we will work with during the summer retreat. Together, we will focus on three essential stages of practice: bringing the mind to rest (shamatha) looking into the nature of mind (vipashyana) learning how to rest in the natural state These are the practical foundations that allow retreat instructions to become workable and meaningful. Our primary guide will be Rinpoche’s Secret Path of the Siddhas, together with supporting instructions from the 9th Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning on…

A 6-week DharmaWeb course with Dan McNamaraMay 24 – June 28 | Sundays at 4pm Pacific In this six-week course, Dr. Dan McNamara will guide us through a short but profound text by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo presenting the Five Great Madhyamaka Arguments. These arguments are among the most important reasoning methods used in the Buddhist tradition to examine how things truly exist and how confusion about that question becomes the root of suffering. Four of the five arguments come directly from Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, which many of us have already encountered through Rinpoche’s teachings. The fifth draws on Śāntarakṣita’s synthesis of…