"Enlightenment is about more than just sitting. It's about how we live."

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I offer direct one-on-one Buddhist enlightenment training: powerfully practical applied-dharma coaching coupled with advanced meditation guidance with a special focus on developing your ability to directly and quickly attain stream-entry through Buddhist mind training, analytical meditation, practical applied-dharma, and insight coaching.  This is not about cultivating equanimity; it's about making progress—real progress—toward actual enlightenment.
This is serious Buddhist enlightenment training and applied dharma life coaching for those who seriously want to step-up their practice and level-up.

There are four clearly defined Stages of Enlightenment and I help people successfully achieve their moment of awakening through the first two stages of enlightenment, commonly referred to as Stream-enterer (sotapanna) and Once-returner (sakadagamin).  Progress beyond those two attainments will depend mostly on you. 

This is important: stream-entry is a very big deal: once stream-entry is achieved, full enlightenment and freedom from samsara become an inevitability.
It is worth noting that what is on-offer here is very special.  There are few people outside of Buddhist monasteries who can genuinely offer this kind of applied guidance and advanced coaching, especially to lay practitioners.
Photo of a meditating dog. This dog is skilled in insight, vipassana, and calm-abiding practices and is quite peaceful and happy.
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Enlightenment Training & Dharma Life Coaching.

Stream-entry and progression through the stages of enlightenment by way of pattern-, perspective-, thought-, and habit-transformations; transforming life's ordinary and extraordinary problems into the source of resilient-motivation and practical application of
the dharma and mindfulness.

In regard to both my intermediate and my advanced enlightenment training, I instruct with a high degree of emphasis on the practical application of the Three Higher Trainings (i.e., sila, samadhi, panna), the Three Characteristics (i.e., anicca, dukkha, anatta), the Four Brahmaviharas (a.k.a., the four immeasurables), and the Ten Paramis (a.k.a., the ten perfections), coupled with a strong and stable meditation practice, as a practical and realistic path to the clearly defined stages of awakening, enlightenment, and nirvana in this lifetime.
[ COURSE 1: INTERMEDIATE BUDDHIST TRAINING ]
Applied Intermediate Dharma Coaching:
Laying the Foundations for Stream-entry
and Integrating Dharma Practice into Everyday Life
(This service is appropriate for intermediate-level+ dharma practitioners.)
I. Building The Foundation for Enlightenment
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Actually getting you to your moment of awakening and stream-entry, the first Stage of Buddhist Enlightenment.

Standard subjects and techniques covered include leveraging and integrating the Buddhist approach to problem-management, resilience, and compassion into your day-to-day life. 

Additionally, we will work on leveraging meditation and the dharma to address issues such as guilt, anxiety, conflict, and all sorts of other day-to-day issues that cause you stress or displeasure.  This develops the foundations for stream-entry.

  • Deeply insightful applied-dharma life coaching with a focus on directing your practice toward stream-entry and into the stages of Buddhist enlightenment.
  • Explore and understand the role of meditation in the pursuit of stream-entry and full enlightenment.
  • Learn how other meditation techniques can enable more stable mind states and support your spiritual progress.
  • Practical mind training to develop your internal sources of happiness, resilience, and a secure sense of well-being.
  • Applied dharma coaching and problem-solving leveraging mindfulness, dharma, and logical analysis.
  • Integrating the techniques, tools, and practices for day-to-day practical application of the Buddhadharma (e.g., cultivating skilfulness, focus, and wisdom) in every day life.
  • Using the three higher trainings and the three characteristics in your daily practice.
  • Mindful use of technology in a technologically-saturated world, and using technology to make progress toward Enlightenment rather than away from it.
  • Techniques to living life without attachments, aversions, resentment, and resistance.
  • Transitioning to an urban life of non-violence and cultivating true peace-of-mind.
  • An approach to learning how to be content and present in everyday life, regardless of your conditions:
    • Taming anger, impatience, fear, anxiety, pain, illness, anguish, in addition to all other forms of day-to-day and mundane irritations and aggravations.
    • Optionally, working through quality-of-life altering personal issues such as isolation and end-of-life concerns.
  • Developing your own personal Book of Practices and off-the-cushion techniques.
II. Commentary-based Teachings on Buddhist Texts
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Do you have an interest in better understanding your dharma books and practically applying lessons contained within them?

As appropriate for your level of practice, we may optionally work our way through specific source materials to help you progress along the path toward awakening.  Be it an agreed-upon favourite dharma book, or one that I recommend that supports or enhances your practice and your current position along the path: reading the materials together, discussing the key points, relating the teachings and instructions to your real-world experiences and challenges, and guiding you on how to take your practice from theory to practical application.
III. Post-retreat, Real-world Reintegration (if applicable)
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Are you going on retreat or coming back from one?

Many practitioners go on meditation retreats, and some of those who spend their time there skilfully experience profound insights and realisations, or actuate highly-definable meditative attainments, but sadly, they don’t make the necessary changes to their lives when they get back to the “real world" to support and cultivate those attainments; they don't respect that it's not always easy to transition back to the real world after an extended period in a sanctuary of noble silence and peaceful tranquillity...and so, unsurprisingly, they fall right back into old habit patterns and routines, wasting all that time, money, and effort to go on retreat.  This coupled with other reasons is why, retreat-after-retreat, so many practitioners still haven’t reached the even first Stage of Enlightenment.

If you are going on retreat, I will work with you to help you plan how you can best utilise the precious time that you spend on retreat to min-max your experience and increasing your chances of bringing home sustainable progress.

If you are coming back from retreat, I will work with you to help you retain the insights, realisations, and attainments you experienced while you were on retreat. 

Making the transition from a quiet sanctuary back to the hustle-and-bustle of regular life can be a jarring  and challenging experience and I can help make the experience a more productive and long-lasting one.
[ COURSE 2: ADVANCED BUDDHIST TRAINING ]
Advanced Buddha-dharma Coaching for the Partially-Enlightened
(This service is only available for advanced-level dharma practitioners, i.e., practitioners who have already directly experienced awakening and at least one of the early Stages of Enlightenment.)
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Assisting with the understanding and practice of more advanced concepts that are not appropriate for unprepared minds.  Please contact me directly for more information.
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Meditation & Analytical Mind Training.

Core Specialties: across all of the various meditation techniques that I instruct on, I provide guidance and practice in properly identifying, applying, and balancing (1) concentration, (2) effort, (3) focus, and (4) mindfulness in order to teach you how to find and hold the object of your meditation with stability, consistency, and reliability.  This is the stuff of Enlightenment. This is much, much, deeper than it sounds and you will not find this anywhere else (except perhaps from one of my students).
Buddhist Meditation Training:

Anapanasati Meditation (stabilising/breath)
Analytical Meditation (cogitation)
Lamrim Meditation (structured analytical)
Samatha Meditation (blissful concentration)
Metta Meditation (lovingkindness/bodhicitta)
Tonglen Meditation (exchanging)
Maranassati Meditation (death)
Lojong Meditation (mind-training)

...and some other analytical practices and esoteric methods.
Note: I provide these meditation training services by special-request only and I exclusively work with intermediate and advanced practitioners guiding them through the Stages of Enlightenment.  There are many teachers for beginners and very few for the advanced practitioner, so I must make my time available in ways that can generate the most benefit to those who are close to attaining liberation from Samsara and need my help to do so.
[ OPTION 1: INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION TRAINING ]
Intermediate Meditation Training Beyond Mindfulness and into Altered States
(This service is not appropriate for beginner-level meditation practitioners.)
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There are many different meditation techniques that are taught and applied in traditional Eastern Buddhism, and moving beyond the the introductory breathing and awareness meditations is critical to the long-term success of the time you spend on the cushion.  Together we will explore some of these other techniques to find the ones that are most in-line with your skills and practices, and those that would be beneficial (e.g., filling skill or knowledge gaps) to helping you achieve tangible and practical on- and off-the-cushion results.  We will identify the techniques that will flesh-out your practice and fill the gaps that aren't being addressed in your current practice (e.g., the ones that are holding you back).  This develops the foundations for stream-entry.

You will learn how and when to use differing meditation techniques as specific antidotes to the inevitable challenges and difficulties that you will encounter in life; for example, that using tonglen is best for being stuck in a disgusting hotel room, while practicing metta is better if you're ego-tripping after a win/loss situation. 

You're not going to find this out in a book or at your local dharma center.

On top of that, this is more than just about providing you with a stable foundation from which to develop a well-rounded, productive, and stable meditation practice, it's about developing the skills needed to realise awakening, attain stream-entry, and make your way down the path toward full enlightenment.
[ OPTION 2: ADVANCED MEDITATION TRAINING ]
Advanced Meditation Training: Through Enlightenment and Toward Nirvana
(This service is appropriate for intermediate-level+ meditation practitioners.)
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Time to take your meditation to the next level and apply a purposeful direction to your time on the cushion: awakening and realistically entering into the clearly defined Stages of Enlightenment as you learn to make highly-measurable progress toward Nirvana.  We will explore various natural states of altered consciousness and the direct realisation of Emptiness (sunyata) by way of attaining deeper levels of sustained concentration (jhana) or high-velocity insight (vipassana).
Can't decide?
Want to mix-and-match?
Want something else?

Custom Training & Coaching Services.

Many students opt to establish a personal curriculum, and if that is of interest to you, we can work together to develop a personalised schedule and a custom format that will work best for your particular skills, goals, and budget.
[ CUSTOM DHARMA LIFE COACHING / MEDITATION / ENLIGHTENMENT TRAINING ]
Customised/Personalised Services
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  • Custom Practice Troubleshooting:
    • Understanding stream-entry and enlightenment.
    • Building your motivation.
    • Over-coming a meditation rut.
    • Finding purpose in your practice.
    • Over-coming specific doubts and issues about your practice.
    • Putting your practice into practical context and application.
  • Custom Session Durations:
    • Sessions as short as 10 minutes (as appropriate for proper progress only).
    • Sessions up to 4 hours long available for advanced students.
  • Custom Session Frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.):
    • Available for ad-hoc and Impromptu sessions as schedule permits.
  • Custom Discussion Content, Meditation Formats, and Support Models:
    • Discussion-only sessions and meditation-only sessions available.
    • Email-only and weekly phone check-in-only packages available.
  • Custom Platforms:
    • Phone, live streaming, video chat, email, etc.
  • Custom Focus, examples:
    • Laying the practice foundations for stream-entry and enlightenment.
    • Attaining stream-entry (sotapanna) or once-returner (sakadagamin).
    • Dharma on- and off- the cushion.
    • Structured lessons and teaching based on appropriate root texts and dharma books
    • Approaching and working with life's inevitable stressors:
      • Anger, anxiety, stress, fear, relationships, work, loss, isolation, et cetera.
    • Exploring Intermediate and Advanced Buddhist meditation techniques.
What is listed above are but a subset of the services I readily provide to clients.  So if you don't see what you are looking for or want something else, that's actually the norm.  Let's work together to craft a practice that targets your needs so we can accelerate your progress to achieving your personal and spiritual goals.
I offer authentic and transformative steam-entry training and dharma life coaching and I encourage you to message me to learn more.
Schedule a first-discussion now! It's free.
Opportunities to meet someone who can teach stream-entry don't come by often.