Mountain Stream Meditation

Mountain Stream Meditation 6:00-7:30 pm Monday night sittings Mountain Stream was founded by John M. Travis, who has been a student of vipassana meditation since 1969.

His work and teaching have been important to the growth and development of Buddhism in the Northern Sierra Nevada region. Visit MSM's website, www.mtstream.org, for full calendar of sittings, events and retreats offered.

Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together 🌿A 6 Week Online Course with Maeve HassettWednesdays, September 2 throug...
09/01/2026

Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together 🌿
A 6 Week Online Course with Maeve Hassett
Wednesdays, September 2 through October 7 | 6 to 7:30pm PT
Zoom Only

Some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha are found in the Atthakavagga, the Book of Eights, a collection of sixteen poems. This six session course takes up those poems using Gil Fronsdal's The Buddha Before Buddhism as our primary text, alongside a few other writings believed to come from the same early period.

These teachings clarify something essential about the path, and connect directly to how we live day to day. The middle four sessions each focus on a major theme, and the final session considers what these early writings mean for our practice today.

Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years and has been part of the Mountain Stream community since 2004.

Offered on a sliding scale. Pre-registration encouraged by noon Tuesday, September 1.

Link in bio to register.

Our attachment to self keeps us from noticing the miraculous beauty of this life. Let it go, even for a moment, and ever...
09/01/2026

Our attachment to self keeps us from noticing the miraculous beauty of this life. Let it go, even for a moment, and everything opens up.

Adam 🤍🙏🏽🤍

08/27/2026

Being a seeker is crucial, but eventually we must stop, look inward, and end the search.

Adam 🤍🙏🏽🤍

It's easy for spiritual practice to turn into just more doing, one more thing we're trying to get right. Meditation is a...
08/25/2026

It's easy for spiritual practice to turn into just more doing, one more thing we're trying to get right. Meditation is a natural undoing. We become more and more aware, until we recognize our true nature.

Adam 🤍🙏🏼🤍

Monday Night Sangha 🌿August 24 | 6–7:30pmWith guiding teacher Adam StonebrakerWe sit for years sometimes, and the mind s...
08/22/2026

Monday Night Sangha 🌿
August 24 | 6–7:30pm
With guiding teacher Adam Stonebraker

We sit for years sometimes, and the mind still wanders. Old patterns still surface. Nothing feels finished. So why do we keep practicing?

This Monday we sit with that question honestly, and look at what actually sustains a practice over the long haul, when the reasons we started no longer feel like enough.

All are welcome. Come early for tea and community.

🧘 Meditation at 6pm
📖 Dharma talk around 6:40pm
📍 Mountain Stream Meditation, Nevada City CA
💻 Also on Zoom
Link in bio for Zoom details.

08/20/2026

“Intention, practitioners, is what I call karma (action). For having intended, one acts by body, speech, or mind” Buddha

Even the emotions we usually push away can be a doorway into recognizing the vast, open nature of mind itself.Adam 🤍🙏🏽🤍...
08/17/2026

Even the emotions we usually push away can be a doorway into recognizing the vast, open nature of mind itself.

Adam 🤍🙏🏽🤍

Monday Night Sangha 🌿August 17 | 6–7:30pmWith guiding teacher Adam StonebrakerKarma gets misunderstood often, sometimes ...
08/15/2026

Monday Night Sangha 🌿
August 17 | 6–7:30pm
With guiding teacher Adam Stonebraker

Karma gets misunderstood often, sometimes as fate, sometimes as cosmic punishment. The Buddha taught something more precise and more useful: that our actions shape the conditions we practice within, moment by moment.

This Monday we explore karma and the ground of practice, what it actually means to work skillfully with cause and effect in a way that opens rather than confines us.

All are welcome. Come early for tea and community.

🧘 Meditation at 6pm
📖 Dharma talk around 6:40pm
📍 Mountain Stream Meditation, Nevada City CA
💻 Also on Zoom
Link in bio for Zoom details.

08/12/2026

Are we leaving ourselves out when we practice for other beings?

Practicing with the Suttas 🌿A 3-Week Course with Adam StonebrakerWednesdays, August 12, 19 & 26 | 6:30 to 8pmIn Person &...
08/12/2026

Practicing with the Suttas 🌿
A 3-Week Course with Adam Stonebraker
Wednesdays, August 12, 19 & 26 | 6:30 to 8pm
In Person & Zoom

The early discourses can feel difficult to approach. The repetition, the long names, the sense that you need a scholar beside you to make any of it land.

This series is meant to open that door slowly.

Each week we take up a single short sutta and read it aloud, contemplatively, letting the words settle before we reach for their meaning. We sit, chant, read, and discuss. The emphasis stays on embodiment and direct experience, in the spirit of the Thai Forest tradition.

These texts were never meant to be studied from a distance. Read slowly, they describe our own experience back to us.

No background with the texts needed. Drop-ins welcome. Come for one evening or all three.

Offered in the spirit of dana. Suggested donation $15 to $30 per class.

📍 Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City CA
💻 Also on Zoom
Link in bio for Zoom details.

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710 Zion Street
Nevada City, CA
95959

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Monday 6pm - 8pm

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