Dharma Sunday

In Heart Advice for Practitioners, Patrul Rinpoche advises:
“Whether you practice the Dharma of sūtra, tantra, terma, or pure vision, train in every part, from beginning to the end, until you achieve confidence.”
But what is the kind of confidence that arises through Dharma practice? Is confidence the same as certainty? Does it come from accumulating information or receiving teachings?
Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol writes that, through “training in the power of recognition,” we can come to a “deep-seated, heartfelt confidence.” In this Dharma Sunday, Camille and Shemaleiah will explore what it may mean to cultivate this heartfelt confidence for ourselves.
What is the difference between information and knowingness? How do we move from ideas about the view toward realizing it? What does it mean to be honest and authentic? What keeps us on the path? Where do we direct our devotion? What would it be like to stop trying to attain something outside ourselves and instead belong to what is already here?
Perhaps we may discover that heartfelt confidence is not based on having answers, but on being open to the questions. We hope you will join us for this exploration.

This class combines body-oriented meditation practice with a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to gently and wisely re-educating the neuro-muscular system. Alternating meditation, a Feldenkrais movement lesson and discussion will allow the techniques to complement and empower each other and to enhance mind-body connections and general well-being.
Many new and long-time meditators discover that Feldenkrais practices can help them feel greater physical ease and less pain, both in meditation and in everyday activities, by freeing up habitual patterns embedded in the neuromuscular system.
For this program, you will need a place to lie down and a chair to sit on. A resource handout will also be available for participants.

If you had the opportunity to devote 6 months, full time, to teaching a Dharma-inspired program for 25 special forces soldiers who might someday be in a position to start – or stop – the next world war, what would you teach them? Join Joel & Michelle Levey as they share practices and insights from their new book, A MANUAL FOR THE AWAKENING WARRIOR, revealing a glimpse of their historic, once-secret, Mind-Body-Spirit training program for the U.S. Army Green Berets, supported by Kalu Rinpoche and many other Dharma teachers. 

This talk highlights the Buddha’s teaching about harm doing—how to understand it and relate to wisely it in our own life and Buddhist practice.
In what ways do we minimize the harm we have done, or exaggerate it? In what ways do  we confuse our own distress as others’, or vice versa?
In this talk we will cover what the Buddha offered as wisdom in relation to harmdoing, recovery from harm being done to, or by, us and adjustments we can make in our perspectives to have more confidence that our future actions will be harmless to life. We will specifically explore how the perfections of character (Paramitas) can be seen as corrections to our tendencies towards harm-doing.

Lama will continue his teaching on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (Tibetan: Gyalse Laklen Sorma), which is a famous 14th-century Mahayana text composed by the Tibetan scholar and monk Gyalse Tokme Zangpo. It serves as a practical, step-by-step guide for cultivating compassion, wisdom, and the awakening mind (bodhicitta) to ultimately benefit all sentient beings. All are welcome – no prerequisites.
Here is the link to The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva he will be teaching about.

We will spend this Dharma Sunday in the company of the women who first fought to be included in the audience when Buddha taught. Damchö will narrate that little known story, opening spaces for collective reflection on its implications for the seat women take in Dharma communities today.
We might imagine that Buddha’s teachings were directed to all people from the beginning, but that is not the case. Sanskrit sources contain a detailed account of the interventions that women needed to make in order to be able to receive the Dharma from the Buddha. Drawing on material she encountered during research for her doctoral dissertation, Damcho will narrate that story, opening spaces for collective reflection on its implications for the seat women take in Dharma communities today.

Dharma Sunday | The 21 Semdzin Online Event With Lama Karma Justin Wall July 19, 2026 The 21 Semdzin are a series of practices found in the Dzogchen Upadesha tantras, using visualization, sonification, and embodiment to release effort and rest in non-meditation. Originally found in the “Reverberation of Sound” and the “Union of the Sun and Moon” tantras of the Upadesha class of Dzogchen, the 21 Semdzin were codified by Longchenpa in the 14th Century. Each semdzin, “lit. holding the mind” is a practice of using light, sound, and embodiment to release grasping and rest in unfabricated presence. This will be the first of a two-part series.

The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (Tibetan: Gyalse Laklen Sorma) is a famous 14th-century Mahayana text composed by the Tibetan scholar and monk Gyalse Tokme Zangpo. It serves as a practical, step-by-step guide for cultivating compassion, wisdom, and the awakening mind (bodhicitta) to ultimately benefit all sentient beings.