The links below are to websites that offer teaching and practices that align with the practices we do each week.
Coming from different traditions, all have teachings that center on recognizing our true nature of wisdom, openness, and compassion.
All have some offerings available at no charge.
Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT)
Sustainable Compassion Training has been developed by John Makransky with Paul Condon and other teaching partners and collaborators. SCT has been adapted from practices of Tibetan Buddhism for people of all backgrounds, secular and religious. SCT teaches us how to become newly receptive to unconditional qualities of love and wisdom from the depth of our being, to settle into that depth, and to respond to others from there with more replenishing and expansive compassion and awareness. SCT is designed to support people in caring roles and professions, modern Buddhists, and people of other spiritual traditions who want to access a power of unconditional love, compassion and wisdom for living, service and action.
The Essence of Non-Duality: Rupert Spira
Non-duality is the recognition that underlying the multiplicity and diversity of experience there is a single, infinite and indivisible reality, whose nature is pure consciousness, from which all objects and selves derive their apparently independent existence. The recognition of this reality is not only the source of lasting happiness within all people; it is the foundation of peace between individuals, communities and nations, and it must be the basis for any sustainable relationship with the environment.
Awakening Heart Practice Community
This community engages in practices that support awakening and compassionate action in the world. They are grounded in Buddhist and other wisdom traditions, inspired by the teachings of Lama John Makransky, Lama Willa Baker, Rupert Spira, and other teachers. Our community welcomes those beginning to explore contemplative practice and experienced meditators. People of all faith traditions, as well as those who do not identify with any faith, are invited to join.
This site is dedicated to the art of meditation. Doug is a writer and Buddhist meditation teacher as well as a minister and psychotherapist. On this site you’ll find Doug’s general understanding of the Buddha’s approach to life and spiritual practice and where the phrase “easing awake” comes from. Sifting through the earliest records of the Buddha’s talks (as compared to later commentators), we find a simple, elegant, and powerful practice. Compared to the versions of his teachings most widely known, his original meditation emphasized: Tranquility, Simplicity, Stages, and Ease.
Natural Dharma Fellowship is an organization of Buddhist practitioners dedicated to bringing the practices of Tibetan Buddhism into the contemporary world in accessible, relevant, and creative ways. Their teachings and practices emphasize the innate wisdom and compassion of one’s inherent being, as taught and transmitted via the Tibetan traditions of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Within this context, our areas of focus include transmitting lineage teachings; developing practices in and with the natural world; exploring the power of the divine feminine; and connecting with the innate wakefulness of the body as our vehicle to liberation.
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