Dzogchen Center Orange County is delighted to be hosting special guest teacher Dr. Roger Walsh for an evening of dharma teaching and guided meditation on Tuesday, July 31st at 7.00 pm.

There will be no charge for this event; optional donations in support of the teacher and/or the room rental.

Please see the event page for further details.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday weekend, there will be no meditation group meeting at the Village Church in Brentwood/Westwood the evening of Sunday, May 27th.

The group will resume meeting on Sunday June 3rd.

Adam Seward of Awakened Life interview with Lama Surya Das will air via streaming radio online at Adam Seward's Radio page.

On Tuesday, April 17th, Buddhist Geeks will host a live teleconference with Lama Surya Das on:

The Future of Buddhism and Awakening: Is Wisdom an Endangered Natural Resource?

Further details and online registration are available by clicking here.

Registration is on a sliding scale from $10 to $30.
Anything above the base rate helps others to attend for less.

Lama Surya Das will be giving an evening talk from 7 to 9 pm on Monday April 2nd at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco. Attendance is by donation, but registration in advance is required: click here for more information

Due to high response for Lama Surya's public teaching/workshop for InsightLA in Santa Monica this Saturday, the venue has been changed to First Presbyterian Church, 1220 Second Street, Santa Monica, CA.

A number of us from Dzogchen Center's Southern California groups will be attending.

To register or for more information, click here.

You can also read Rev. Danny Fisher's recent interview with Lama Surya in Buddhadharma Magazine, talking about the teachings he will be giving this weekend.

Dzogchen Center's annual Spring one-week meditation retreat will be held the last week in March (which is auspiciously also Spring Break for UC schools and many other colleges in Southern California!) at the wide open campus of the Institute for Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree, CA - only just over two hours from LA.

Space is still available for most kinds of accommodations, from camping to cottages and everything in between. Scholarships may be available to reduce the cost in case of need

Further details and links can be found on the event page.

To watch a trippy time-lapse video experience of the Joshua Tree area, click here

POTLUCK DINNER and MEDITATION

Blossom new friendships, connections and support for meditation practice by joining in the fun, right before our regular weekly meditation group meeting on Tuesday, February 7th. Meet new people, get to know one another better and generally have a chance to practice the gift of gab - and EAT some delicious food! All are invited and always welcome, always free. If you can't bring a dish, no problem ... there is always plenty of food to go around.

Tuesday, February 7th:
Neighborhood Community Center (Fairview Room), 1845 Park Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA.

Enquiries: oc@dzogchen.org

Space is still available ... register at the door.

Lama Surya Das has two teaching events scheduled in Costa Mesa this weekend:

His topic is "CATCHING YOURSELF BEFORE THINGS CATCH YOU: The Secrets of Tibetan Mindfulness".

For full details, please click on the following links:

Friday January 20th (evening presentation)

and

Saturday January 21st (one day retreat)

Secure online registration for these events is now closed.

Credit cards are only accepted via online registration. Registration on the day by cash or check only.

Students free with ID.
Scholarships available - nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

We are delighted to announce that the LA weekly meditation group will resume meeting on the West Side on Sunday 15th January 2012. Thanks to the efforts of one of Dzogchen Center Southern California's long-time supporters, the LA group has a new home at the Village Church in Westwood every Sunday evening from 7pm to 9pm.

This location is extremely convenient for the entire West Side, just off the 405 Freeway near the Montana Avenue exit (if coming from the South) or Sunset Boulevard exit (if coming from the North). It is less than a mile from UCLA, and no more than 10 or 15 minutes from Santa Monica.

Meetings will be listed in the Events section of this site.