In 2010 I was invited to resume teaching Buddhist meditation at the Biblioteca (Library) in San Miguel de Allende in the heart of Central Mexico. I had been a senior Dharma Teacher at the Vajradakini Buddhist Center in Dallas for about ten years. When I retired from Teaching Art and moved to Mexico, I became involved in The Shambala Center here in SMA and conducted a short-lived Dharma Art Group. And after that, I started to facilitate the class at the Biblioteca and continued that for about five years. I had a regular group of students who were passionate about the Dharma. I soon realized that most of the folks, mostly ex-pat, were not all that interested in following anyone's particular tradition. I eventually began to feel a similar disinterest and felt called to work with all of my spiritual experiences and resigned from the Buddhist teaching position. I wanted to continue to offer meditation instruction and several of my Buddhist students wanted that also, so we began to hold sessions in my art studio here in San Miguel. In our first session, we looked at a book entitled “The Dude and the Zen Master” by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glasman. Seems “the Dude” was a long time Zen practitioner! We looked at the  Ten Ox Herding Pictures and many other source materials. The feeling of freedom was exhilarating and the members of the group shared that. Eventually, I was introduced to the teachings of Adyashanti and I realized that my Buddhist path had taken me to Non-Duality. The Mahamudra practices and the meditations on emptiness were perfectly in line with the non-dual view. Adyashanti shared that he had awakened out of his Zen practice and I realized that I had done the same with Tibetan Buddhism.

Eventually, we had to leave my studio and held the class at The Empowerment Center, which was outside of San Miguel in Los Frailes. In time many of the students found it difficult and requested we find another venue. We ended up at LifePath Center here in SMA in 2017 and had a very lovely experience until just recently when  Life Path had to close. We plan to resume the sessions in a private home.

The group had grown from a dedicated group of six or seven to an average of eleven members. We have regular full time residents, part-time people and people just visiting. We have several members who visit yearly and they are the ones who have inspired this site!