Dharma Seed - Dharma Teachers

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Hugh Byrne teaches with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC and is a co-founder of the Washington Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He teaches classes on Buddhism and meditation for the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program.

Jack Engler

Jack Kornfield

Over the years of teaching, I've found a growing need for profound lovingkindness and compassion--a transformation of the heart--to underlie the insights and understandings that come out of the practice. An opening of the mind needs to be supported by compassion from the heart if the practice is to be integrated, fulfilled, and lived in our lives.

The value of mindfulness practice is discovered in the freedom we find through awareness. Without awareness, we repeat the patterns of fear and conditioning that keep us entangled individually and collectively. Without awareness, we suffer. With awareness, we can see the contractions of the mind, how the mind gets caught and how we can learn to let go. With awareness we can reawaken to the purity of joy and freedom that is fundamental to our true nature.

As a Dharma teacher, I simply remind others how it is possible to live in this world and find freedom. I listen to practitioners and try to remind them that it is truly possible to be free.

Jacques Verduin

“Insight-Out” run by Insight Prison Project's Founding Director Jacques Verduin, is Jacques’ new community initiative that employs former life-sentenced prisoners that were trained during their incarceration at San Quentin. These 'Change Agents' offer programs to at risk youth and their brothers and sisters still in prison. Insight-out also runs the California Prison Mindfulness Network (CPMN), which supports prison sanghas in California through retreats and classes in yoga and meditation.

You can make a donation to:
Peace Development Fund
(On the memo line of the check write: ISO/CPMN)
P.O Box 888, Woodacre, CA 94973

Jake Dartington

James Baraz

I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.

I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.

The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.

James Baraz and Bob Doppelt

Janet Keyes

Janet Keyes has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1987, when she took James Baraz’s introductory class; she remains one of his senior students. Janet has done many months of intensive practice. She is a member of several Kalyana Mitta groups and participated in the first Dedicated Practitioners Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. A graduate of the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, she is a volunteer chaplain for the Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley as well as for the larger East Bay community.

Janice Clarfield

Janice Gates

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