Tranquility meditation (also known as Shamatha or Calm Abiding) is the bedrock of the path of meditation. Start here.

Here’s some help for planning a personal retreat. Remember—structure is freedom on retreat.

52 practices for mindful seeing. Good for adults, teens and kids. Print, store in a notebook and savor one exercise for a week for a whole year.

20 Shamatha meditations, each with a brief basic Buddhist teaching and very concise instructions for the mediation. (Watch this site for audio recordings of these coming soon to our podcast page.)

Tonglen is a profound practice with many benefits including the gradual cultivation of wisdom and compassion for yourself, those you love, people you don’t know and those with whom you have challenges. It’s also much, much more.

This PDF has the information and the links you need to prepare to chant The Mahasutra on Entering the City of Vaishali. The music is beautiful. The translation is faithful.

Riwo Sangcho is a mountain smoke-incense offering in the Tibetan tradition. This booklet has a translation by Ken McLeod.

Poetry and recitation are part of my practice. Watch this space for a forthcoming unit on writing and recitation as part of practice. This poem was written in 2022, in the time of many devastating fires in Oregon.

Don’t waste the experience of a broken heart. Turn your broken heat into the fuel for awakening compassion. Part of the Seamless Practice Series.

A handful of slides explaining a 3-year householder dharma training program, emphasIzing mediation, contemplation and study, organized into 6 streams of learning, to create well-balanced practitioners.

Writing can be a way for students to learn to attend carefully to experience and then express it through recitation. This gives a powerful and wholesome experience of one’s voice in the world. These files might be useful in teaching workshops on the topic.