Learn more about your teachers for this exploration of nirvāna, and why they are passionate about bringing this topic out into the light.

Meet Your Teachers

Christina Feldman

"When I began to practice myself in Asia in the early 1970s, there was a lot of discussion about nirvana. This was a normal conversation. I think it was made very clear from the outset to me that this was the goal of the path, and very few people were shy about talking about it. I have found it very odd, almost mysterious, that in Western cultures it seems to be a discussion that's almost taboo. This has made me very curious about why that is."

Jake Dartington

"I am really inspired to explore this with colleagues and to find a way through these excessively romantic notions of nirvana on the one hand, and reductionist ideas on the other. We can understand Nirvana as a path of freedom in the midst of our lives."

John Peacock

"I'm very interested in helping people think their way into the material rather than taking it on a mere belief that this is the end of the goal, and we happen to call it nibbāna. Let's see what the content is. Let's see how it affects our lives and see how it affects our aspirations. Let's see what living a life which has nirvana at its center looks like rather than as an end goal. What would my life look like then?"