While it is important for us to know our potential for enlightenment, practicing the Dharma properly must also include becoming familiar with our seeming limitations. Finding the Middle Way, we are able safely and effectively traverse the path to awakening.

Lama Adam introduces the foundational technique of shamata (calm-abiding meditation) with particular attention to it’s utility in daily life.

The first step toward finding true happiness is to understand suffering. We’ll explore how equality, illusion, and intention can be used to increase genuine happiness.

The life story of the Buddha is illustrative of much we seek to discover ourselves, especially how to find balance via clearly identifying our own extremes.

Ourselves and everything we experience are both vivd and insubstantial. Lasting happiness can be achieved through cultivating stable awareness of the inseparability of vividness and insubstantiality as it aligns with our relative view with the way things really are.

Our lives are a process, fully of change and uncertainty. Forgetting this, we suffer. One method the Buddha taught to help us wake up to our situation was the commitment to doing no harm.

Our lives can feel so spread out. Stretched from the distant past into a far uncertain future. Can't we just have a moment in the moment? Using the foundational Buddhist meditation of shamata, or calm-abiding, we’ll explore how the simplicity of a meditation session can come along with you throughout your day, positively impacting your experience and everyone around you.

Lama Adam talks about our potential to experience the awakened mind, the self-created habitual obscurations which cause our suffering, and the skillful means we can apply to unravel our confusion and unfold our potential.

We know how inspiring those "a-ha!" moments can be when something we read or hear really clicks with us, but we also know we can’t study our way to enlightenment. So how can we balance practice and study in order to achieve our goal of full awakening?

Lama Adam teaches from a chapter of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s book "Into the Heart of Life". This teaching explores how attachment is the cause of our suffering, how we can spot attachment by being aware of the eight worldly concerns, and how we can make our lives more workable by cultivating openness and awareness.

Lama Adam explores ways in which we can support our practice of mindfulness in the course of a single day, with a focus on building strong positive habits.

Generosity is a primary teaching of the Buddha because it helps us tackle attachment head-on, which is what is necessary to transcend suffering.

With the cultivation of mindfulness and patient inquisitiveness, we can reveal the universal needs underneath our words—and those of others—developing a practical means for compassionate communication and common ground.