Happy New Year.
I hope you’re finding moments of strength and clarity amidst as we begin this new year.
This January marks one year since the beginning of Clear Dharma Sangha, my weekly online practice community. I started the group to create a place where people could meditate together with honesty, depth, and care in a time that often feels overwhelming.
Over the past year, “CDS” has become a steady container for reflection, meditation, inquiry, and conversation. It’s a place to slow down, be real with one another, and engage with life rather than retreat into numbness, burnout, or cynicism.
Our focus is on the direct experience of what helps us suffer less and love more. I see Buddhism as a living technology for liberation—a path of freedom that unfolds through awareness, ethical care, and relationship.
So as the year gets under way, I want to invite you to join CDS for eight weeks to explore a focused theme together: Foundations of the Dharma: Living the Buddhist Path. This series lays the groundwork for Buddhist practice—both for those newer to the path and for long-time practitioners seeking a fresh take on the essentials.
Over these eight weeks, we’ll explore core elements of the path as living principles: refuge, right view, mindfulness, intention, integrity, and transformation. We’ll look at how suffering arises, how freedom becomes possible, and how awareness, ethics, and compassion support one another.
Rather than presenting Buddhism as a set of beliefs or techniques, we’ll emphasize understanding how the path actually works—and how it can be lived in the midst of ordinary responsibilities and a rapidly changing world.
Folks who join for the whole eight-week series (which starts February 4) will also receive high-quality recordings of the course at the end.
In a time when certainty is scarce and the future feels unstable, how we show up matters. Clear Dharma Sangha is an invitation to practice being human together, with sincerity, steadiness, and care, one week at a time.
If this resonates, I’d love to see you there. Learn more, join as a member, or drop in for a session anytime here.
Upcoming Events
Foundations of the Dharma: Living the Buddhist Path
Feb 4 – Mar 25, online, 4–5:30 pm PT
8-week course through Clear Dharma Sangha
Learn more and enroll here.
Responding to Change and Upheaval with a Strong Heart
January 20, online + by donation
3:00–4:30 pm PT / 6:00–7:30 pm ET
Explore how contemplative practice can help us respond wisely to the challenges of our times—not by reacting, but by reestablishing our center in the midst of it. The path reminds us that awakening is possible even amidst upheaval, and that we can nurture strength in ourselves, our communities, and the world we share. Learn more & register here.
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