The Dzogchen Center Orange County group now meets regularly from 2 pm to 4 pm on Sunday afternoons at Fit for One, on the peninsula in Newport Beach. Details can be found here.

Our popular Tuesday evening meetings also continue to be held at the Neighborhood Community Center in Costa Mesa.

On Sunday, February 17th, the Dzogchen Center Orange County group will be at the Universalist Unitarian Fellowship of Laguna Beach from 2 pm to 4 pm. We will be trying out this new venue (and time) before deciding on whether to continue meeting there on future Sundays.

Further details for this Sunday's group can be found here. We hope you can join us at this new location!

Regular Tuesday evening meetings will continue to be held at the Neighborhood Community Center in Costa Mesa.

Save the date - Saturday, March 5th - for another day of meditation practice and teachings in Irvine, CA.
Further details can be found on the event page and all are welcome, regardless of meditation experience or religious affiliation (if any).

"Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. It lifts the fog of our ordinary lives to reveal what is hidden; it loosens the knot of self-centeredness and opens the heart; it moves us beyond mere concepts to allow for a direct experience of reality. Meditation embodies the way of awakening: both the path and its fruition. From one point of view, it is the means to awakening; from another, it is awakening itself."

          ~ Lama Surya Das, "The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation"

For more information, see our FAQ

Please note that this evening's meeting with be in the HARPER Room at Neighborhood Community Center, Costa Mesa, CA (not the usual Fairview Room).

Lama Surya Das online live

Today Tuesday, September 25th

from 6:00 to 6:30 pm Pacific Time (9 pm to 9:30 pm Eastern)

LIVE interview on the Spirit Seeker Weekly Radio Show with host Cynde Meyer

To listen via phone and call in with questions call 347-884-9914

To listen via the internet go to www.blogtalkradio.com/cyndemeyer

Watch Lama Surya's guided meditation and presentation at the Young Minds Conference in Sydney, Australia at the end of June: "Awakening the Good Heart Together"

View, download and/or print a copy of the schedule for the day.

Further details and free online registration

All are welcome, we hope to see you there!

Dzogchen Center Southern California will be holding a day of meditation practice and teachings from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday 25 August in Irvine, CA.

See further details about this event and/or register to attend

All are welcome, whether newcomers to meditation or experienced practitioners. There is no charge: optional donations to support teachings and/or venue rental.

See further details about this event

Lama Surya Das is in Colorado this week. After teachings at packed-full venues in Durango last Saturday and Sunday, he will give a talk at the Integral Center in Boulder on Wednesday evening: Enlightened Leadership and the Bodhisattva Way.

On Thursday evening at 7:15 pm Mountain Time (9:15 pm Eastern, 6:15 pm Pacific), Lama Surya will deliver the keynote address at the second annual Buddhist Geeks Conference. His topic is "The Future of Buddhism, Which is Now: Does Buddhism Have to Die to Be Reborn in the West?". Lama Surya's keynote speech - and the entire Buddhist Geeks Conference - can be watched free via live video stream from Sounds True. This is a wonderful opportunity to catch Lama Surya "live and in concert"!

You can sign up here to watch this event.