The Innermost Gem The first warm weather in weeks has come to the New Dharma Center here in Washoe Valley, Nevada. Weeks and weeks of snow, rain and wind. The weather is now moving into the 70’s. This is perfect timing for the first Silent Weekend Retreat of the summer. We are hosting it in [...]

Introduction – the Three Paths  The Bhakti path is one of the three (3) main paths to the Supreme; Karma, the path of Action, Jnana, the path of Knowledge and Bhakti the path of Divine love. One can enter the spiritual journey via any one of these three but ultimately all three integrate if one [...]

The Avatar The movie, the ‘Avatar’, inspired me to explain the nature of spirit and the spiritual path in a very simple way. It is my experience that without understanding what is spirit you will not be able to recognize or realize it when it when you find it. You need to understand what you [...]

Dear all, I know some of you are considering attending the upcoming New Dharma’s Silent Retreat.  Now that the reality of cost and time are before you the usually considerations are coming up for people. The question is “why do this?” What we are in essence is the Sat. the “Truth” or that which “Real”. [...]

This is the first time I have felt to share with you something from this trip to India. Terry, Sasha and Satyapriti have joined me on what may be an annual pilgrimage to this land of saints and seers. This was my home for six years and in some ways will always be my spiritual [...]