Dharma Academy

Dharma Academy offers transformative teachings of wisdom and compassion rooted in the Zen Buddhist Lineage Tradition. We offer an accessible curriculum and a supportive community that will help you integrate ancient wisdom teachings into the details of your lived life.  

The Dharma Academy provides a path for seekers, who cherish intellectual precision, open-mindedness, and the possibility of embodied spiritual transformation. We are dedicated to creating a space, in which views can be opened and compassionately shaped in relationship to the pressing global and societal challenges of our time.  

Explore the foundations of your mind, emotions, and actions through Zen teachings. Our offerings include: 
• Dharma Talks & A Wisdom Curriculum: We’ve developed a curriculum of Zen teaching and practice designed to support you - systematically - in feeling, embodying, and enacting the Dharma. 
• Community - Practicing Together:  The genius of monasticism lies in the discovery of mutuality. At the Academy, you’ll find companions to practice alongside. 
• Online Zendo - Daily Meditation: Every morning and evening, we’ll stream live from the meditation halls of our two practice centers — one in Europe, one in the US. You’re invited to sit with the residents. 
• Library - Self Study: Step by step, we’ll make available an archive of over 60 years of Baker Roshi’s teachings. The archive will be interactive, so you can explore and research at your own pace. 

We actively engage in dialogue with scientific institutions, societally engaged individuals, and experts in the fields of therapeutic methods to merge ancient wisdom with contemporary knowledge. 
The teachings we are drawing from have evolved in response to three timeless questions that echo through human history: 

• What is suffering and how can we be free from it? 
• How can we cultivate clarity, insight, and reliable ways of knowing? 
• How can we live ethically and naturally respond to our circumstances in beneficial ways? 

As a Dharma Academy student, you will learn how to explore, live, grow within these questions in the context of your daily life. 
Through practice, you will find restorative pauses while you are working or going about your day, and you will notice transformative change in your thinking, feeling, and actions. 
And as students meet each other, companionship is born: Here you will meet others with whom to share the wonder and mystery of being alive.