Summer is here. Join us in the Guan Yin Retreat and experience a practice based on thousand of years of Buddhist tradition. August 5 to 11, 2012.
Join us at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery for a one-day course on the practice of Chan meditation on February 26, 2012.
Develop your innate wisdom through the study, practice, and presenting of Buddhist texts. February 21, 22, 28, 29 and March 1, 6, 7, 2012.
The Spring Guan Yin Session is on March 11-17. Sign-up and join us for a week of recitation and contemplation.
Explore a selection of Spring 2012 course offerings.

A previous post of mine, Warning: This Post May Deterritorialize Your Symbolic Construct, was a stream of ideas inspired largely by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze has some thoughts about the world...
Part 2 of 2 of my personal reflections on an eleven-day stay in Amaravati Work was not something people generally love. But by now, I have become quite a workaholic, especially when working for a monastic...
Part 1 of 2 of my personal reflections on an eleven-day stay in Amaravati For me, it was my summer vacation – to continue to look for more freedom. Freedom – we all want that; we want it dearly. To the point...
Some years ago, while driving friends to Humboldt State University in the early morning mist, the road began to wind through majestic redwoods enveloped in fog. I was still sleepy and had to pay serious...