What's New

We will give a dharma talk at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010 in Sacramento, California from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. For details, please visit our Events page. We will offer two events in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next year. The first is a the Introduction to Concentration Meditation Dana-only Daylong, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm in Tiburon, CA. This event is offerred on a donation basis. Pre-registration is required. We are also offerring a 3-day Retreat, June 23-26, 2011, at Vajrapani Retreat Center in Boulder Creek, CA. For more information or to register for these events, visit our Events page.   We have posted a new dharma talk, which was recorded in November, 2009 when Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw invited us to teach at the Theravada Dhamma Society near San Francisco, California.  Please visit our Dharma Tallks page for the hotlink(s). Our year-long mentoring program is full. We are now taking applications for the 2011 mentoring program. For more information, or to schedule a one-on-one session with one of us, see our Mentoring page.  The new version of our book, entitled Practicing the Jhanas, published by Shambhala Publications, was released in December 2009. We have been told by the publisher that it is selling about 100 copies a week at this point. Use this hotlink to read more or purchase a copy. http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-733-5.cfm. The book is available in major bookstores and most internet booksellers. We were honored to present a copy to Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw in person in October 2009. Our original book, Jhanas Advice from Two Spiritual Friends, was purchased by more than 550 people in 31 countries on six continents in a two year period. Our new book contains one additional chapter on "First Sit to First Jhana", as well as an expanded section on Purification of Mind. Several wonderful reviews of our book have been released, including Yoga Journal UK, Wisdom Quarterly and Buddhadharma. Check this one out at http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2009/11/practicing-jhanas-book-review.html. Our next retreat will be held from Dec. 27. 2009-Jan 9, 2011, a 13-day retreat. To register, please visit www.CloudMountain.org. We are offerring 5 retreats between now an the end of 2011, so please visit our Events page for details. We were recently interviewed by Vince Horn at BuddhistGeeks.com. It was a lot of fun talking with Vince about the "Jedi Warrior Training" the yogis described experiencing at our last retreat. Click here for the hotlink:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/BuddhistGeeksPodcast.  Scroll down to see our interviews--note that there are two parts to the interview.