Virtual Events


Daily Morning Meditation

Dates: Every day 8:00-9:00am PT
Cost: Gift Economy / aka on Donation
Location: Virtual via Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/370125244
Zoom Password: meditation
Registration: None needed / just show up!

 

Brief Summary:

We gather in community 365 mornings a year for a short teaching, meditation, and discussion.  Usually, around 20 to 30 people join.  You are welcome to have your video on or off, and stay for as little or as long as you like.

Morning Flow (Monday to Friday):

8:00 – 8:15am  — a short talk
8:15 – 8:45am — silent meditation
8:45 – 9:00am — group discussion

Morning Flow (Saturday & Sunday)

8:00 – 8:55am — silent meditation
8:55 – 9:00am — “lightning round,” sharing intentions for the day or one-sentence reflections

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Home Practice Immersion — A Day of Mindfulness

Date: Saturday, June 21 — three sessions
Location: Zoom / virtual
Cost: Gift economy / aka donation
Registration: email me via David AT Pathofsincerity DOT com

 

Brief Summary:

The purpose of this home practice immersion is to tear down the wall between our “meditation practice” and our “life.”  We’ll have three practice sessions on Zoom, focused on relaxed awareness, and then use the in-between periods to experiment with being mindful in our daily life — whether we’re with other people, doing chores, working, lounging, or whatever else we choose to do on a Saturday.

Feel free to come for as much or as little of the day as you like, whether that’s all three sessions, just one, or even half of one.   Here’s the schedule for the day:

  • 8:00-9:15am PT — Short Talk + lightly guided meditation
  • 2:00-3:00pm PT — Short talk + lightly guided meditation
  • 7:30-8:45pm PT — Short talk + lightly guided meditation + group discussion

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Local Events in Portland

 

Monday Night Sangha — Twice-a-Month

Dates: 2nd & 4th Mondays, 7-8:30pm+
Location: Awakenings Wellness Studio @ 1016 SE 12th Avenue Portland, OR 97214
Cost: Gift Economy / Donation
Registration: None needed / just show up!

Evening Themes:
6/9/25 — Foundations of Buddhist Mindfulness
6/23/25 — Mindfulness of the Body
7/14/25 — Mindfulness of Feeling-tone
7/28/25 — Mindfulness of Mind
8/11/25 — Mindfulness of the Hindrances

Brief Summary:

We’re a Portland-based Buddhist community that puts special emphasis on deep dharma, the integration of practice into daily life, the relevance of both liberating meditation & heartful ethics, as well as creating the conditions for a real sense of sangha / community.

After the sit and a short talk, roughly half the evening is spent in meditative co-contemplation, including 1-on-1 conversations that go beyond the surface, large group discussions, and Q&A.

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Food Pantry Sorting – Community Service Day

What: Food Pantry Sorting Shift w/ Lift Up
Dates: June 14th, 2:30-4:00pm (optional lunch at 1:15pm)
Location: 1838 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR 97201
Registration: Required!  Email me to join.

Brief Summary:

We’re joining Lift Up at their SW Portland Food Pantry to help sort and unload donated food.

Their mission is to combat food insecurity and improve the lives of low-income residents in Portland.  They provide nearly 1 million pounds of free food a year to local residents in need!

Visit herefor more info and registration.

 

From Self-Comparison to Self-Compassion: An Evening Workshop

When: Wednesday, 6/25 from 7-9pm
Where: The Flander’s House in NE Portland
Registration: Required — Via Eventbrite
Cost: Gift Economy / Donation

Brief Summary:

This workshop will explore the Buddha’s teachings on the three types of comparison/judgement, as well as the two primary alternatives which are much more wonderful and life-giving: emptiness and compassion. We’ll also discuss how this crosses with Dr. Kristen Neff’s teachings on self-esteem and self-compassion.

Our time together will feature a combination of guided meditation, journaling, brief lecture, and small & large group discussion.

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Four Elements — A Daylong Buddhist Meditation Retreat

Date: Saturday, 7/26/25, from 10:00am to 4:00pm+
Location: A riverside horse ranch in Canby, OR
Cost: Gift economy / aka donation
Registration: RSVP required; email me via David AT Pathofsincerity DOT com

Brief Summary:

Join us for our annual daylong at the Lotus Herd Horse Ranch, where we’ll meditate outdoors, in the shade, and nearby a creek, horses, and gently swaying trees.

Our emphasis will be a simple present moment awareness, experiencing the elements of nature, our “inner elements,” and how the two are not so different.

In other words, the invitation will be to put down our conventional stories and reactivities to look more closely into our true nature, discovering a sense of harmony & interconnection with the world we inhabit.

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Past & Future Courses

I usually teach four multi-week courses a year live in Portland, rotating through the following, and often adding in new ones.

Sign up for the newsletter if you want first notice about these — they generally fill up.

For longer-term explorations (both Zoom only):

 

 

Community Discussion

For both the local & online communities, I host a free virtual Discord forum, for ongoing discussion in a more informal way.

There are sub-forums for the local sangha, the morning meditation group, wholesome living, general discussion, and also a fairly active daily gratitude forum.

Visit here for the sign-up link and some instructions on how to have it be a seamless, less-than-one-minute process.