"Being happy and at-peace is about more than just sitting. It's about how we live."

Personal One-on-One & Group-based Instruction


​Powerful and practical Buddhist dharma coaching for those who are serious about wanting to step-up their practice and spiritually level-up.

I offer direct one-on-one and group-based Buddhist instruction for those who would like to actually integrate the Buddha's teachings (i.e., the dharma/dhamma) into their daily lives to address the real-world obstacles that get in the way of their peace-of-mind, their happiness, and ultimately hinder their progress toward spiritual success.

Together we will work on new, more skilful ways to address old, unskilful problems using highly-practical and easily-applicable techniques that can be used right away to start generating perceptibly positive changes to the general state of your mind and to the overall level of your happiness and sense of personal safety.

Developing these kinds of Right views and skills will cultivate a resilient foundation to experience genuine and sustainable progress toward happiness and freedom from dukkha out here in the "real world," not in spite of life's inevitable challenges, but because of them.

Genuine Enlightenment Coaching


This is not about cultivating mindfulness or equanimity; it's about making progress—real and perceivable progress—toward Buddhist enlightenment; toward Nibbāna.

There are four clearly defined Stages of Enlightenment and it's my firm intention to help as many people as I can to successfully achieve their moment of awakening and to progress through the first two stages of Buddhist enlightenment, commonly referred to as Streamenterer (sotāpanna) and Once-returner (sakadāgāmin).  Progress beyond those two attainments will mostly depend on you and your determination to cultivate the Path.

You will learn to make progress toward and through the stages of enlightenment by way of pattern-, perspective-, thought-, and habit-transformations; by transforming life's ordinary and extraordinary problems into opportunities for the practical application of the dharma— because spiritual progress isn't made on the cushion, it's made out here in the real world.

Practical Dharma & Mind Training


What is on-offer here is very special.  I am a skilled Buddhist Ācariya and Ariya-puggala, and I am also a full-time Anagārika renunciant who is becoming Buddhist monk, scholar, and teacher.  There are few people outside of authentic Buddhist monasteries who can genuinely offer this kind of applied guidance and advanced teaching and coaching to lay practitioners.
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My focus is deeply-rooted in early Buddhism (e.g., emphasising ānāpānasati, the sutta piṭaka, and pure practice), coupled with some Tibetan mind-training and applied-dharma techniques to accelerate your progress toward streamentry and through the Stages of Buddhist Enlightenment.

I teach, coach, and train with a high degree of emphasis on the practical application of the Three Higher Trainings (i.e., sīla, samādhi, paññā), the Three Characteristics (i.e., aniccā, dukkha, anattā), the Four Brahmavihārās (a.k.a., the four immeasurables of loving-kindness, compassion, altruistic joy, and unbiased equanimity), the Five Aggregates, and the Ten Pāramīs (a.k.a., the ten perfections) coupled with a strong and stable ānāpānasati meditation practice as a practical and realistic path to the clearly defined stages of awakening, enlightenment, and Nibbāna in this lifetime.

Be prepared to let go of some long-held beliefs, views, and practices that are, in fact, keeping you from the success that you are looking to attain.  When it comes to developing the skills and practices that are required for actual spiritual progress, such as streamentry and once-returning, nothing that isn't true Dhamma-Vinaya or Right View should be held as sacred.
[ BUDDHIST MIND TRAINING FOR LIFE'S EVERYDAY PROBLEMS ]
Applied and Practical Dharma Coaching and Training
(Laying the Foundations for Measurable Progress and Integrating Dharma Practice into Everyday Life)
Building A Foundation for Actual Progress
Steering your practice toward getting you to your moment of awakening, 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 streamentry.

  • Deeply insightful applied-dharma training with a focus on directing your practice toward cultivating the views, skills, and practices that lead toward actual progress in your practice.
  • Explore and understand the role of meditation in the pursuit of streamentry 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 Dharma Book of Practices and off-the-cushion techniques.
DISCUSSION-based Teachings on Buddhist Texts
Do you have an interest in better understanding the suttas or your dharma books, and practically applying the 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.
Post-retreat, Real-world Reintegration
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 actually 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.
Custom Buddhist Coaching & Mind Training
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.
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  • Custom Practice Troubleshooting:
    • Understanding streamentry 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 Duration:
    • Sessions as short as 30 minutes (as appropriate for proper progress only).
    • Sessions up to 4 hours long are 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 streamentry and enlightenment.
    • Attaining streamentry (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.
[ ADVANCED BUDDHIST MIND TRAINING ]
Advanced Buddha-Dhamma 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.)
Advanced BrahmavihĀrĀ Coaching
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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