Ethical maturity is the second waypoint on the Evolving Ground Fundamentals Journey. New video on the eG Youtube with some excerpts from one of our virtual meetups on ethical maturity and Vajrayana: youtube.com/watch?v=419NJW…

Our community-wide summer Colorado retreat is just around the corner! evolvingground.org/24-summer-retr…

Pure View video sample on Evolving Ground Youtube. It's from a while back, May 2022. It's interesting to watch videos from a year ago in the eG core community and see how our model has, er, evolved...

I am hosting Discovering Vividness with Evolving Ground At the Berkeley Alembic on Sunday, July 21st from 3pm-5pm It is part of a monthly series at least through the end of the year, presenting a program on behalf of Charlie Awbery and Jared Janes. RSVP: eventbrite.com/cc/discovering…

This coming Saturday morning, I’m leading an online Vajrayana Q&A session. How to participate, and other details: meaningness.substack.com/p/confusions-g…

📺 Introducing Vajrayana: a five-minute video from my Q&A with the Evolving Ground community. Vajrayana Buddhism is fascinating and beautiful; but enormously complex, and apparently contradictory. It's best understood as a meta-system of diverse principles and functions.

Why I write: the ultimate underlying theme 📺 A two-minute video from my Vajrayana Q&A with the Evolving Ground community. Inasmuch as the problem our society and culture faces is the inseparability of nebulosity and pattern, Vajrayana ought to be able to cast light on that.

🧘 Why do tantric deity practice ("yidam") when you could be doing mindfulness meditation, or formless sitting meditation such as in Zen, Mahamudra, or Dzogchen? One reason: it feels fantastic! [Three minutes with Marie Ramos, from my Evolving Ground Vajrayana Q&A]

4 spaces left for Liberating Shadow weekend course 14th/15th September, in person, Manhattan. Read more and reserve a place here: buff.ly/3SZ3i82 Also...

this book addresses pretty much every problem i’ve ever had with meditation, clearly and compassionately. wow. gonna use it to restart my practice after years of neglect. much thanks to Charlie Awbery 🙏

🎂🎂Happy Birthday Opening Awareness book! One year old. 🎂🎂 I never dreamed it would sell into the thousands. 🤯😲 It's deeply gratifying that it has reached and touched so many people's lives. It offers a friendly, life-affirming way to practice meditation: how to find a

Had a fascinating talk with the ever-interesting Charlie Awbery the other day about the meaning of their practice name Rin’dzin Pamo, Tantra, curiosity, new developments in the Evolving Ground community, the role of play and spontaneity in Vajrayana, a special invocation (written by

I’m returning to Berkeley Alembic ⚗️ next weekend for two events! On Saturday 11th in the evening @meaningness and I will be in conversation about yidam practice. Then all day Sunday, 11am to 5pm, I’ll host a mini-retreat, introducing some contemporary Vajrayana practices.

I’m co-facilitating an online Evolving Ground discussion of three level of Buddhist vows for paying members, starting this coming Saturday. We’ll be doing the lay vows first, then the bodhisattva and tantric vows. meaningness.substack.com/p/questioning-…

Only 2 places left on Evolving Ground's Community retreat in Germany, first week of May!

🌅 Approaching Vividness: a new online course in perception, appreciation, energy, and freedom for action. Four sessions on successive Saturdays, starting in a week! 🔗Details and sign-up link in reply tweet⤵️

࿇ Today is the last day to register for the Evolving Ground Vajra Retreat, coming up in a month at the glorious Drala Mountain Center in Colorado. ࿇ I'll be co-leading the second part of this with Charlie Awbery and Jared Janes. 🔗 Link for info and registration in reply tweet!

I co-authored a post with Andrew Blevins, Choices in Feeling. The "choices" part is about different ways that we can relate to emotional reactivity. The post covers self-regulation (the mainstream approach) and Liberating Emotion (an unconventional approach) the contemporary