Three-hour practice sessions with sitting and walking meditation, teaching, and time for questions and/or discussion.

Themes over the season include:

• Stress, emotional balance, and loving kindness

• Burnout, fatigue, and meaning in life

• Craving and compulsive habits

• Foundations of meditation and daily practice

• Calm and insight working together in daily life

We look honestly at how world conditions and personal pressures affect the heart and practice ways to find genuine relief, clarity, joy, and kindness. Suitable for newer meditators and long-term practitioners.

The Lotus Path is a weekly online Dhamma group for those who wish to live meditation as the path of Awakening and skilfulness.

Each session includes:

• Guided meditation

• Dhamma reflection

• Time for questions and dialogue

Themes may include:

• The Brahmavihāras (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity)

• Calm (samatha) and insight (vipassanā) together

• Renunciation and simplicity

• Recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha

• Walking the Noble Eightfold Path in ordinary life

We acknowledge the pleasure and pain of the world while cultivating the wisdom and compassion that lessen suffering and increase happiness. 

A weekly hour devoted to loving-kindness, happiness, and emotional steadiness in modern life.

We will:

• Practice guided mettā and related contemplations

• Reflect on working with stress, anxiety, and emotional turbulence, including what arises from following the news and world events

The aim is not to ignore suffering, but to meet it in a way that softens the heart and strengthens our capacity to respond wisely.

Thursday evenings focus on clear foundations in Buddhist meditation and bringing practice into everyday life.

Sessions often include:

• A short guided meditation

• Teaching on:

  • Posture (esp. first session)

  • Foundational themes and mindset of meditation

  • Beginning or renewing daily practice

  • Working with hindrances

  • Ethics and emotional clarity

  • Mindfulness in work, family, and daily routines

These sessions offer a friendly entry point for those new or returning to practice, while still providing depth for experienced meditators.

An inspiring evening of Buddhist worship and meditation in the style of Thai Buddhism.

We gather for:

• Refuges and precepts

• Chanting in English

• Quiet sitting meditation

In a time of heavy and divisive news, we recollect the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, calm the heart, and renew confidence in the path. We end by sharing any goodness of the practice for the welfare of all beings.

Typically we will use the Amaravati Chanting Book, Vol. 1, but we may occasionally draw on Bhavana Vandana, especially the "Discourse on the Characteristics of Selflessness," page 107. 

A special daylong retreat to honor the Buddhist holiday Magha Pūjā, remembering great disciples and the Buddha’s "Exhortation on the Entryway to Liberation (Ovāda Pāṭimokkha)."

The day will include:

• Morning worship, recollection, precepts, and meditation (8:00–10:30 a.m. ET)

• Afternoon sitting and walking practice, stories of the disciples, and reflections on the Ovāda Pāṭimokkha (1:00–5:00 p.m. ET)

• A Magha-Pūjā-themed Lotus Path session--our usual Sunday night group--including a worship service (7:00–8:45 p.m. ET)

You are welcome to participate in the entire day or in whichever portions you can attend. 

Three evenings dedicated to open questions and Dhamma dialogue with Ajahn Wade.

Each will include:

• A brief quiet sit

• Space for questions about:

  • Meditation practice

  • Working with fear, anger, and grief around world events

  • Integrating the path with family, work, and daily responsibilities

  • Anything related to Buddhism