Adam Stonebraker - The Freedom of Not Being a Separate Thing

Join us in person:
Adam will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Adam - Thank you

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

COURSE IS CLOSED

6-week online course with Maeve Hassett
Topic: Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together
Date: Wednesdays: September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom Only

Sliding Scale Registration Fees for the online course series:

Scholarship — $48 ($8/Class)
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income. 

Standard  — $90 ($15/Class)
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support 

Sustaining  — $120 ($20/Class)
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 

Steward — $180 ($30/Class)
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma

Course Description: This six‑session series introduces what are widely considered some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha, focusing on the Atthakavagga (The Book of Eights), an anthology of sixteen poems. The primary course text is Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha Before Buddhism; we will also examine a couple of other texts thought to be from the same period.

These early writings help clarify the essence of the Buddha’s teachings and connect them to direct experience in everyday life. The six one‑hour sessions include an overview and a discussion of four major themes. Each of the middle four sessions will focus on one theme; the final session will consider the teachings’ relevance to contemporary understandings of Buddhism and to our personal practice. We will also briefly review other early texts. Participants are encouraged to share resources that enrich our collective exploration.

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Maeve as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
MAEVE HASSETT DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mountain Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

Green Tara Circle
Date: Thursday, September 10
(repeats monthly on second Thursday)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
(future circles will be from 6:30 - 8:00 pm)
Facilitators: Monika Rose, Lauren Pittman and Lakshmi Prasad
Cost: Offered in the spirit of dana / generosity. Suggested donation: $15 - $30 per class.

Join us for a peer-led meditation and community sharing circle focused on the wisdom of Green Tara - a transformative practice that is central to Tibetan Buddhist traditions.  In a monthly group setting, we will meditate on the supportive energy of Green Tara and the divine feminine, and learn how to access Tara’s loving presence in times of turmoil through visualization and mantra. 

Circle Format (Future circles will have a different format.)

• Setting our intention and motivation

• Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana Practice

• Guided Green Tara Practice and Meditation

• Transmission and Instruction for the Green Tara Practice

• Sharing 

• Metta and Dedications

Green Tara is revered as the Great Wisdom Mother and Remover of Obstacles, offering support in both practical and spiritual matters. Together, we will explore the rich symbolism of the Brief Green Tara practice from the Shangpa Kagyu tradition, authorized by Lama Palden Drolma, founder of Sukhasiddhi Foundation - a female-led sangha whose lineage traces back to 11th-century female gurus, Niguma and Sukhasiddhi.

This circle will be the foundational practice for the study of the 21 Taras and their unique qualities in Spring of 2027.

*** You must receive the transmission during the September 10 or October 15 Circles to engage in this practice and attend future circles. If you cannot come in September or October, please reach out to Lauren (Lauren@mtstream.org) to arrange a time to receive it.***

Open to all practitioners.

Our center and meditation hall are open to all on Fridays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Come read in the library, connect with community in the foyer, or sit quietly in the hall. Most Fridays, a volunteer leads a silent meditation from 12:30 – 1:00 pm; some weeks it's self-guided.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Temple Care & Garden Care + Sitting Meditation
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is 12:00 - 12:30 pm)
Saturday dates remaining in 2026: 9/12, 10/3, 11/ 7 & 12/12

Temple Care is a chance to come together in community to care for the spaces that support our practice- both inside and out. This monthly event is lightly and joyfully held by Jen Scott, our landscaping team and our Eco Dharma Council.

We begin at 10:00 am with a short welcome circle in the foyer, grounding ourselves in shared intention. From there, we divide into two groups:
• Indoor crew – cleaning and organizing to the meditation hall and indoor spaces
• Outdoor crew – weeding, gardening, caring for the labyrinth, sweeping, and helping steward the land

At 12:00 pm, we come back together for a 30-minute meditation, held either in the hall or outdoors, depending on the day and weather.

There are many ways to engage in spiritual practice- one way is through service.  We hope you’ll join us!

For more information or to get on the text/email list for Temple Care, please reach out to Jen at Jen@mtstream.org

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

You are invited to a 3-session series with Bruce Pardoe

Topic: Feeling Clearly: A Direct Path of Practice for Working With Intense Emotions

Each session stands on its own — join one or all three:

• Monday, September 14, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: The Content and Context of our Emotions. The Language and Landscape for Healing.

• Thursday, September 17, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Emotional Regulation

• Saturday Daylong, September 19, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Feeling your Innate Capacity to Meet and Work with What Arises.
  Registration Required for Saturday daylong only. THE DAYLONG WILL BE CANCELLED IF LESS THAN 8 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED BY 10:00 AM THE DAY BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS. Registration & More Info

Location: In Person at the Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
or for Monday and Thursday, join our Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980 Password: 2656111 Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Series Description: The intense sensations of emotional wounds can rule your life. To work with them in ways that support balance and confidence, you need to know what they are, how they operate, and how they heal. Feeling Clearly offers an accessible, embodied path for you to directly feel how your ordinary human experience already includes the capacity to work with emotional wounds as a path towards well-being. Nothing to get right or be worthy of — just learning how to feel clearly and thoroughly.

In this series you will learn:

• A simple way to understand, feel, and navigate your emotions

• How to monitor and tend to your level of emotional activation

• How emotional wounds can become a doorway to greater freedom

Dana: During the series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Bruce as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. BRUCE PARDOE DANA (DONATION)

Bio: Bruce Pardoe is a member of Mountain Stream’s Teacher Council. His personal healing journey with complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to our essential well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of a healing awareness in an uplifting, heart-centered approach.

For more than 40 years Bruce has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing. After spending over two years on silent retreat he became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock’s Meditation Center’s 2 year Community Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy.

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

COURSE IS CLOSED

You are invited to a 6-week online course with Maeve Hassett
Topic: Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together
Date: Wednesdays: September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom Only

Sliding Scale Registration Fees for the online course series:

Scholarship — $48 ($8/Class)
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income. 

Standard  — $90 ($15/Class)
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support 

Sustaining  — $120 ($20/Class)
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 

Steward — $180 ($30/Class)
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma

Course Description: This six‑session series introduces what are widely considered some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha, focusing on the Atthakavagga (The Book of Eights), an anthology of sixteen poems. The primary course text is Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha Before Buddhism; we will also examine a couple of other texts thought to be from the same period.

These early writings help clarify the essence of the Buddha’s teachings and connect them to direct experience in everyday life. The six one‑hour sessions include an overview and a discussion of four major themes. Each of the middle four sessions will focus on one theme; the final session will consider the teachings’ relevance to contemporary understandings of Buddhism and to our personal practice. We will also briefly review other early texts. Participants are encouraged to share resources that enrich our collective exploration.

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Maeve as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
MAEVE HASSETT DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mountain Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

You are invited to a 3-session series with Bruce Pardoe

Topic: Feeling Clearly: A Direct Path of Practice for Working With Intense Emotions

Each session stands on its own — join one or all three:

• Monday, September 14, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: The content and context of our emotions. The language and landscape for healing.

• Thursday, September 17, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Emotional regulation

• Saturday Daylong, September 19, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Feeling your innate capacity to meet and work with what arises.
  Registration Required for Saturday daylong only. THE DAYLONG WILL BE CANCELLED IF LESS THAN 8 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED BY 10:00 AM THE DAY BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS. Registration & More Info

Location: In Person at the Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
or for Monday and Thursday, join our Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980 Password: 2656111 Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Series Description: The intense sensations of emotional wounds can rule your life. To work with them in ways that support balance and confidence, you need to know what they are, how they operate, and how they heal. Feeling Clearly offers an accessible, embodied path for you to directly feel how your ordinary human experience already includes the capacity to work with emotional wounds as a path towards well-being. Nothing to get right or be worthy of — just learning how to feel clearly and thoroughly.

In this series you will learn:

• A simple way to understand, feel, and navigate your emotions

• How to monitor and tend to your level of emotional activation

• How emotional wounds can become a doorway to greater freedom

Dana: During the series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Bruce as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. BRUCE PARDOE DANA (DONATION)

Bio: Bruce Pardoe is a member of Mountain Stream’s Teacher Council. His personal healing journey with complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to our essential well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of a healing awareness in an uplifting, heart-centered approach.

For more than 40 years Bruce has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing. After spending over two years on silent retreat he became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock’s Meditation Center’s 2 year Community Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy.

Our center and meditation hall are open to all on Fridays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Come read in the library, connect with community in the foyer, or sit quietly in the hall. Most Fridays, a volunteer leads a silent meditation from 12:30 – 1:00 pm; some weeks it's self-guided.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Join Mountain Stream for Feeling Clearly, a 3-session series with Bruce Pardoe More Info

On Saturday, please join us for the final session, a Daylong Retreat with Bruce
Topic: Feeling Clearly: A Direct Path of Practice for Working With Intense Emotions
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Pre-registration is required. THE EVENT WILL BE CANCELLED IF LESS THAN 8 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED BY 10:00 AM THE DAY BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS.
To register, please visit https://square.link/u/1CI0Ud5G
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided once registered and paid in full.

Sliding Scale Registration Fees:

• Scholarship - $50
  Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income
  Helps cover basic operating costs for the program like utilities, flowers and supplies
  Standard — $80
  For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support social and spiritual activities.
  Covers program expenses for the day
  Sustaining — $108
  For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 
  Helps sustain Mountain Stream’s ongoing offerings
  Covers operating expenses for the day, as well as program expenses
  Steward — $150
  For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma
  Helps Mountain Stream break even, provide ongoing dana-based programming and builds the foundation for us to grow and thrive
  Covers operating and program expenses and helps provide scholarships for others

  Service Trade
  For those who are unable to pay, we offer a service trade option where volunteer hours are traded for attending the program.
  For those with physical limitations or disabilities, full scholarships are available without offering service- reach out to lauren@mtstream.org.

  If you are interested in sponsoring lunch for the teacher or offering flowers, please email lauren@mtstream.org

  If you would like to contribute to our scholarship fund, please donate here.

Series Description: The intense sensations of emotional wounds can rule your life. To work with them in ways that support balance and confidence, you need to know what they are, how they operate, and how they heal. Feeling Clearly offers an accessible, embodied path for you to directly feel how your ordinary human experience already includes the capacity to work with emotional wounds as a path towards well-being. Nothing to get right or be worthy of — just learning how to feel clearly and thoroughly.

In this series you will learn:

• A simple way to understand, feel, and navigate your emotions

• How to monitor and tend to your level of emotional activation

• How emotional wounds can become a doorway to greater freedom

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE REGISTERING: The daylong retreat offers a contemplative, meditation-based approach to working with emotions. It is not a substitute for psychotherapy, counseling, or medical treatment. Bruce Pardoe is not a licensed therapist and does not diagnose or treat psychological issues. If you are currently in crisis, under psychiatric care, or working with an active trauma diagnosis, please check in with Bruce at bpardoe@heartfluency.com before registering to make sure this offering is a good fit. 

Dana: During the series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Bruce as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. BRUCE PARDOE DANA (DONATION)

Bio: Bruce Pardoe is a member of Mountain Stream’s Teacher Council. His personal healing journey with complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to our essential well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of a healing awareness in an uplifting, heart-centered approach.

For more than 40 years Bruce has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing. After spending over two years on silent retreat he became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock’s Meditation Center’s 2 year Community Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy.

Dzogchen Circle, Afternoon with Ken Bradford

Dates: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Description: This Dzogchen Circle is the last in the series of afternoon gatherings meeting throughout 2026, focused on recognizing and more fully embodying the mind’s natural wakefulness. Designed as a follow-up to Dzogchen retreats, and for those drawn to the direct path of nondual presence, these circles will integrate a range of practices, including tonglen and shamatha–vipassana. Together, we will explore how conditioned mind states can open into their intrinsically lucid, already free nature.
The afternoon involves informal discussion (Q&A) and practice.

Suggested donation: $15 - $30. Temple Dana (Donation)

Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk via Zoom ~ or join us in the Meditation Hall

Kirsten Rudestam - topic TBD

Join us in person:
We will livestream the Dharma talk into the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to our teacher - Thank you

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT DONATION (DANA)
Or offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: Kirsten Rudestam is an environmental educator, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied political ecology, sense of place, and environmental justice. Kirsten has fifteen years of experience teaching environmental field courses, nature-based meditation programs and guiding wilderness expeditions. She is trained as a vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects. Kirsten has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2001 and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program in 2005.

Fall Equinox Outdoor Gathering at Sitting and Sangha, presented by the Eco Dharma Council.
Tuesday, September 22, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
More to come.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

COURSE IS CLOSED

You are invited to a 6-week online course with Maeve Hassett
Topic: Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together
Date: Wednesdays: September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom Only

Sliding Scale Registration Fees for the online course series:

Scholarship — $48 ($8/Class)
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income. 

Standard  — $90 ($15/Class)
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support 

Sustaining  — $120 ($20/Class)
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 

Steward — $180 ($30/Class)
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma

Course Description: This six‑session series introduces what are widely considered some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha, focusing on the Atthakavagga (The Book of Eights), an anthology of sixteen poems. The primary course text is Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha Before Buddhism; we will also examine a couple of other texts thought to be from the same period.

These early writings help clarify the essence of the Buddha’s teachings and connect them to direct experience in everyday life. The six one‑hour sessions include an overview and a discussion of four major themes. Each of the middle four sessions will focus on one theme; the final session will consider the teachings’ relevance to contemporary understandings of Buddhism and to our personal practice. We will also briefly review other early texts. Participants are encouraged to share resources that enrich our collective exploration.

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Maeve as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
MAEVE HASSETT DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mountain Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

Our center and meditation hall are open to all on Fridays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Come read in the library, connect with community in the foyer, or sit quietly in the hall. Most Fridays, a volunteer leads a silent meditation from 12:30 – 1:00 pm; some weeks it's self-guided.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation Practice Circle
Peer-led, In Person Only
We meet every last Sunday of the month, 10:00 - 11:30 am - All are welcome
Facilitated by Dharma Practitioners Tim Cardoza and Priscilla Barton

Description: Metta (lovingkindess) meditation practices are a powerful part of the Buddha’s legacy. These practices have the ability to substantially deepen our feelings of love and connection with others and to help us transform difficult mind states such as fear and anger into more wholesome states of caring and kindness.  Scientific studies on metta meditation practices have shown they can increase feelings of wellbeing and improve both mental and physical health.

The group format will include reading/chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta, Monthly Topic, Guided Meditation and Discussion

Suggested reading:  Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg

Dana (Donations) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$25 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TEMPLE DANA (DONATION)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

Constance will be teaching in-person at the Nevada City Insight Center! As always if you can’t make it in person, you can join via Zoom ~ link below.

Constance Washburn - TBD

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to our teacher - Thank you

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT TEACHER DONATION (DANA)
Or offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: Constance Washburn, MA, is a facilitator, educator and community organizer. She is currently co-director of the Spiral Journey- a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects and is a founder and core member of the Weavers Team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She began studying with Joanna Macy in 1994. She started studying Zen in 1968, since 1984 has been part of the Vipassana community at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is a community dharma leader in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition under the guidance of Lama Palden.

She is a founding member of the Elders Action Network and she developed and facilitates their Empowered Elder Workshop. She is a trainer of the Community Resilience Model of the Trauma Resources Institute.

She served as Education Director at the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) and Marin Organic for almost 20 years educating the public about the value of local food and farms. She has a MA in Education and Theater and taught and directed multi – cultural theater companies as her first career.
Learn more about Constance: https://www.constancewashburn.com/

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

COURSE IS CLOSED

You are invited to a 6-week online course with Maeve Hassett
Topic: Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together
Date: Wednesdays: September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom Only

Sliding Scale Registration Fees for the online course series:

Scholarship — $48 ($8/Class)
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income. 

Standard  — $90 ($15/Class)
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support 

Sustaining  — $120 ($20/Class)
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 

Steward — $180 ($30/Class)
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma

Course Description: This six‑session series introduces what are widely considered some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha, focusing on the Atthakavagga (The Book of Eights), an anthology of sixteen poems. The primary course text is Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha Before Buddhism; we will also examine a couple of other texts thought to be from the same period.

These early writings help clarify the essence of the Buddha’s teachings and connect them to direct experience in everyday life. The six one‑hour sessions include an overview and a discussion of four major themes. Each of the middle four sessions will focus on one theme; the final session will consider the teachings’ relevance to contemporary understandings of Buddhism and to our personal practice. We will also briefly review other early texts. Participants are encouraged to share resources that enrich our collective exploration.

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Maeve as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
MAEVE HASSETT DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mountain Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

There is no Sound Healing for October. Please join Miyu in November. read more

More information about Miyu: www.yuhealingarts.com

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Temple Care & Garden Care + Sitting Meditation
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is 12:00 - 12:30 pm)
Saturday dates remaining in 2026: 10/3, 11/ 7 & 12/12

Temple Care is a chance to come together in community to care for the spaces that support our practice- both inside and out. This monthly event is lightly and joyfully held by Jen Scott, our landscaping team and our Eco Dharma Council.

We begin at 10:00 am with a short welcome circle in the foyer, grounding ourselves in shared intention. From there, we divide into two groups:
• Indoor crew – cleaning and organizing to the meditation hall and indoor spaces
• Outdoor crew – weeding, gardening, caring for the labyrinth, sweeping, and helping steward the land

At 12:00 pm, we come back together for a 30-minute meditation, held either in the hall or outdoors, depending on the day and weather.

There are many ways to engage in spiritual practice- one way is through service.  We hope you’ll join us!

For more information or to get on the text/email list for Temple Care, please reach out to Jen at Jen@mtstream.org

Adam Stonebraker - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Adam will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Adam - Thank you

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

COURSE IS CLOSED

You are invited to a 6-week online course with Maeve Hassett
Topic: Exploring the Early Buddhist Teachings Together
Date: Wednesdays: September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom Only

Sliding Scale Registration Fees for the online course series:

Scholarship — $48 ($8/Class)
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income. 

Standard  — $90 ($15/Class)
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support 

Sustaining  — $120 ($20/Class)
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 

Steward — $180 ($30/Class)
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma

Course Description: This six‑session series introduces what are widely considered some of the earliest teachings of the Buddha, focusing on the Atthakavagga (The Book of Eights), an anthology of sixteen poems. The primary course text is Gil Fronsdal’s The Buddha Before Buddhism; we will also examine a couple of other texts thought to be from the same period.

These early writings help clarify the essence of the Buddha’s teachings and connect them to direct experience in everyday life. The six one‑hour sessions include an overview and a discussion of four major themes. Each of the middle four sessions will focus on one theme; the final session will consider the teachings’ relevance to contemporary understandings of Buddhism and to our personal practice. We will also briefly review other early texts. Participants are encouraged to share resources that enrich our collective exploration.

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Maeve as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
MAEVE HASSETT DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mountain Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk in the Meditation Hall or via Zoom.

Gavrila Nikhila: Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Gavrila will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio: Gavrila Nikhila is a dedicated dhamma practitioner, singer, and contemplative dreamer. Her journey through grief and the complexities of being human inspired her to study suffering and its cessation, leading her to teach mindfulness for over a decade and become a somatic psychotherapist. Working with diverse individuals, she believes that embodiment and mindfulness are accessible to everyone. Gavrila emphasizes awareness, ancestral wisdom, and innate wholeness in her collaborative approach to transformation. She co-founded the Trauma Aware Mindfulness Collective and is a guest teacher for various sanghas. Gavrila offers meditation series for youth with Spirit Rock Meditation Center and young adults with Dharma Gates. In collaboration with Lotus Compass, Gavrila serves as the mindfulness guide on annual trips on the Camino de Santiago. Gavrila identifies as a queer, Ashkenazi Jewess.
For more on Gavrila's therapeutic work visit connectedrootstherapy.com.
For more on trainings and insights, visit wholecompleteperfect.com.

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Gavrila - Thank you!

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk via Zoom ~ or join us in the Meditation Hall

Devin Berry - topic TBD

Join us in person:
We will livestream the Dharma talk into the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to our teacher - Thank you

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT DONATION (DANA)
Or offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: Devin Berry is an Insight Meditation teacher and Core Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society. A practitioner since 1999, his teaching is rooted in the classical foundations of Buddhist practice and informed by many periods of silent retreat practice. He teaches residential retreats, daylongs, and community gatherings throughout the United States.

​Known for a warm and grounded teaching style that often includes humor and storytelling, Devin invites a direct and compassionate meeting with life as it is. His work reflects a deep respect for the traditional path of awakening while remaining responsive to the conditions of contemporary life and the shared human world we inhabit together.

​He teaches retreats and programs with communities and centers including Insight Meditation Society, Forest Refuge, Spirit Rock, and other Dharma communities.

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

The Eco Dharma Council invites you to join us for a special
Smoke Offering and Sacred Offerings Practice
with Khenpo Karma Tenkyong
5:30 - 7:30 pm
In Person Only: 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Because of the season and current fire conditions, our smoke offering will be done safely using incense sticks rather than an outdoor fire. Khenpo will begin by sharing a teaching on the meaning and purpose of smoke offerings—why we make them, what our intention should be, and how this ancient practice can deepen our connection with Mother Earth. 

We will also explore the traditional Buddhist altar and offerings. Khenpo will explain how to set up an altar, what the offering bowls represent, and the meaning behind each offering, connecting these practices with the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space.

This will be an interactive gathering, with practice stations where everyone can participate firsthand—learning how to arrange the offerings, understand their symbolism, and discover how to make these practices personally meaningful rather than simply ceremonial.

As part of our EcoDharma conversation, we will also begin exploring the idea of creating a children’s garden and ways Khenpo might help guide us in developing a space where children can learn about nature, interdependence, compassion, and caring for Mother Earth.

Our hope is that this gathering helps us see that making offerings is not only something we do on an altar; it is also a way of cultivating gratitude, generosity, reverence, and a deeper awareness of our relationship with Mother Earth and all living beings around us.

Dana/Donations: All dana collected will be split between Mountain Stream and Land of Bliss Meditation Center, Khenpo’s local affiliation. Participants will also have an opportunity to offer Dana directly to Khenpo and his projects.

Offerings: If you would like to bring offering substances like flowers, saffron, incense, fruit, or cookies (without eggs) please reach out to Lauren@mtstream.org.

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Join Mountain Stream Meditation for a special daylong with Khenpo Karma Tenkyong

Topic: A Day of Embodied Practice
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: In Person, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Pre-registration is required. THE EVENT WILL BE CANCELLED IF LESS THAN 8 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED BY 10:00 AM THE DAY BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS.

To register: link coming soon
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
What to bring: There will be a one-hour lunch break. Please bring a bag lunch and a bottle of water to refill as needed.

Sliding Scale Registration Fees:

Scholarship - $50
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income
Helps cover basic operating costs for the program like utilities, flowers and supplies
Standard — $80
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support social and spiritual activities.
Covers program expenses for the day
Sustaining — $108
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable 
Helps sustain Mountain Stream’s ongoing offerings
Covers operating expenses for the day, as well as program expenses
Steward — $150
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma
Helps Mountain Stream break even, provide ongoing dana-based programming and builds the foundation for us to grow and thrive
Covers operating and program expenses and helps provide scholarships for others

Service Trade
For those who are unable to pay, we offer a service trade option where volunteer hours are traded for attending the program.
For those with physical limitations or disabilities, full scholarships are available without offering service- reach out to lauren@mtstream.org.

If you are interested in sponsoring lunch for the teacher or offering flowers, please email lauren@mtstream.org

If you would like to contribute to our scholarship fund, please donate here.

Daylong Description: This experiential retreat will offer several different avenues of practice, inviting us to work with body, speech, and mind while deepening our connection with the Mother Earth. Khenpo will guide us through gentle Tibetan movement yoga practices, helping us become more present and connected with our bodies. We will explore shamatha and vipassana meditation, learning ways to settle our busy “squirrel minds” and cultivate greater awareness, clarity, and inner peace. We will also practice walking meditation with and without chanting, bringing mindfulness into movement while engaging the power of speech and sacred sound.

During quieter periods of the day, we will have time for personal reflection on interdependence—our connection with one another, all living beings, and Mother Earth.

Khenpo has a profound respect for nature, and this retreat will offer an opportunity to experience Dharma practice not only on the meditation cushion, but through movement, sound, silence, contemplation, and our relationship with the earth beneath our feet.

Each part of the day will open a different doorway into practice, offering tools that can support us in cultivating greater presence, compassion, wisdom, and peace in our everyday lives.

Dana: Khenpo Karma Tenkyong requests that donations be made to Land of Bliss Meditation Center, his local affiliation.
LAND OF BLISS DONATION (DANA)

Bio: Khenpo Karma Tenkyong is a devoted Buddhist teacher known for his ability to bridge ancient wisdom with contemporary life. Deeply committed to protecting the natural world, he brings a strong ecological ethic into his teaching, grounded in compassion and mindful action. Skilled in meditation, yoga, and cultivating reverence for nature, Khenpo Tenkyong meets students where they are, helping them build strong foundations for sincere and engaged practice. His warmth, energy, humility and love of life are felt clearly in his teachings, which aim to benefit both individuals and the wider world.

Ordained as a monk at a young age, Khenpo Tenkyong received extensive classical training in the Karma Kagyu tradition across Nepal, India, and Sikkim, including more than a decade of advanced philosophical study at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute. He was awarded the title of Khenpo in 2002 and has since served in numerous educational, administrative, and teaching roles including environmental initiatives within monastic communities. Since being sent to Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in 2014, he has served as president and continues as resident teacher, offering guidance to centers and sanghas around the world. Learn more about Khenpo Tenkyong

Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation Practice Circle
Peer-led, In Person Only
We meet every last Sunday of the month, 10:00 - 11:30 am - All are welcome
Facilitated by Dharma Practitioners Tim Cardoza and Priscilla Barton

Description: Metta (lovingkindess) meditation practices are a powerful part of the Buddha’s legacy. These practices have the ability to substantially deepen our feelings of love and connection with others and to help us transform difficult mind states such as fear and anger into more wholesome states of caring and kindness.  Scientific studies on metta meditation practices have shown they can increase feelings of wellbeing and improve both mental and physical health.

The group format will include reading/chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta, Monthly Topic, Guided Meditation and Discussion

Suggested reading:  Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg

Dana (Donations) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$25 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TEMPLE DANA (DONATION)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Topic: Dependent Origination - How Suffering Comes Together and Falls Apart
Five Sundays with Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Sundays, October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
Times: Weeks 1 to 4, 2:00 to 3:30 pm PT
Closing half-day, 12:30 to 3:30 pm PT

Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price) 
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class) 
$125 ($25/Class) 

Pre-registration is required.
To register: Square online payment link coming soon.
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to everyone once registered and paid in full.

Course Description: The Buddha called dependent origination the heart of his teaching, and he warned his student Ananda in the same breath that it only looks simple. It's the map of how suffering assembles itself, moment by moment, and the map of how it can come undone.

Over five Sundays we'll take our time with it, one turn of the wheel at a time, until it moves from abstraction into something we can work with directly in our own experience. The whole purpose of this teaching is to be able to work with it, moment to moment.

The workshop stays rooted in the Buddha’s teaching from the Suttas and the down-to-earth, experiential approach of the Thai Forest teachers (Ajahn Chah and those who carried his lineage forward). We'll also borrow from the Tibetan wheel of life as a map for the journey. 

Because the teaching builds week by week, this series is offered as a whole. Every session will be recorded and shared, along with articles, suggested practices, and other resources to work with between Sundays, so missing a week isn’t a problem.

• Week 1. The Whole Wheel. An overview of the teaching and why the Buddha placed it at the center of everything.

• Week 2. How Experience Arrives. The senses, contact, and feeling, and how a moment puts itself together before we've consciously done anything.

• Week 3. The Turning Point. Where craving takes hold, and the small gap where practice reaches in.

• Week 4. The Birth of a Self. How an "I" gets built, again and again, throughout an ordinary day.

• Week 5. The Way Through. A closing half-day. How the whole process comes apart, with time to sit with it and let it ripen, and the movement from suffering toward freedom.

The first four Sundays run 2:00 to 3:30 pm. The closing session on November 22 runs longer, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, with a tea break, giving us room to practice together and let the teaching settle.

A little meditation experience helps but not required, and the teaching stands on its own for newer practitioners as well.

Teacher Support: During the course series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

Adam Stonebraker - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Adam will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Adam - Thank you

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Topic: Dependent Origination - How Suffering Comes Together and Falls Apart
Five Sundays with Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Sundays, October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
Times: Weeks 1 to 4, 2:00 to 3:30 pm PT
Closing half-day, 12:30 to 3:30 pm PT

Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price) 
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class) 
$125 ($25/Class) 

Pre-registration is required.
To register: Square online payment link coming soon.
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to everyone once registered and paid in full.

Course Description: The Buddha called dependent origination the heart of his teaching, and he warned his student Ananda in the same breath that it only looks simple. It's the map of how suffering assembles itself, moment by moment, and the map of how it can come undone.

Over five Sundays we'll take our time with it, one turn of the wheel at a time, until it moves from abstraction into something we can work with directly in our own experience. The whole purpose of this teaching is to be able to work with it, moment to moment.

The workshop stays rooted in the Buddha’s teaching from the Suttas and the down-to-earth, experiential approach of the Thai Forest teachers (Ajahn Chah and those who carried his lineage forward). We'll also borrow from the Tibetan wheel of life as a map for the journey. 

Because the teaching builds week by week, this series is offered as a whole. Every session will be recorded and shared, along with articles, suggested practices, and other resources to work with between Sundays, so missing a week isn’t a problem.

• Week 1. The Whole Wheel. An overview of the teaching and why the Buddha placed it at the center of everything.

• Week 2. How Experience Arrives. The senses, contact, and feeling, and how a moment puts itself together before we've consciously done anything.

• Week 3. The Turning Point. Where craving takes hold, and the small gap where practice reaches in.

• Week 4. The Birth of a Self. How an "I" gets built, again and again, throughout an ordinary day.

• Week 5. The Way Through. A closing half-day. How the whole process comes apart, with time to sit with it and let it ripen, and the movement from suffering toward freedom.

The first four Sundays run 2:00 to 3:30 pm. The closing session on November 22 runs longer, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, with a tea break, giving us room to practice together and let the teaching settle.

A little meditation experience helps but not required, and the teaching stands on its own for newer practitioners as well.

Teacher Support: During the course series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sound Healing with Miyu Tamamura
6:00 to 7:00 pm
An indoor, in-person evening with crystal bowls.

A suggested Donation of $15 - $30 to be shared equally between Miyu and Mountain Stream. Thank you!
To make a donation in advance, you can either mail a check made out to:
Mountain Stream Meditation, PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
or use a credit card by opening this link below:

Safety protocols and guidelines for participating:
We kindly ask that participants agree to follow the safety protocols and guidelines. In the spirit of non-harming, safety is achieved with everyone’s mindful participation.
Masking is optional. We ask that participants refrain from attending if they have had any respiratory or flu symptoms, including any of the following symptoms of Covid-19: loss of taste and smell, fever, chills, extreme fatigue, nausea or vomiting, dry cough, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, dizziness or confusion, sore throat, muscle aches. If you are experiencing seasonal allergies, please be sure and take an at home rapid test before attending - Thank you.

We also ask that you refrain from attending if you have had contact with anyone in the past 10 days that has been diagnosed with Covid-19 or was exhibiting any of the above symptoms unless you have passed two negative Covid tests since contact. 

If you have any questions, please consult with Miyu at (530) 205-8610 before attending.

About Miyu Tamamura: Miyu’s commitment to transformation and healing is the very energy that plays her orchestra of Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, returning us to the silence within. Miyu has been teaching the monthly program of Sound Healing Meditation at Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, California since 2019, as well as collaborating with various yoga, Qigong and meditation teachers, musicians and artists holding retreats, workshops and concerts in the U.S. and Japan.

Miyu was born and raised in Kyoto Japan, graduated from Kyoto University of Art with a bachelor degree in Modern Art before she moved to the U.S. in 2000. As a certified Shiatsu Therapist, Miyu’s practice is deep listening, holding a healing space for one to integrate and harmonize all aspects of self. Miyu established YU Healing Arts with her husband in Nevada City, California, the clinic has been dedicated to the healing arts including Sound Healing, Shiatsu Therapy, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine since 2004. 

Miyu’s eclectic background and experiential approach to truth and Japanese heritage are infused in all her practices and artistic expressions.

More information about Miyu: www.yuhealingarts.com

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Temple Care & Garden Care + Sitting Meditation
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is 12:00 - 12:30 pm)
Saturday dates remaining in 2026: 11/ 7 & 12/12

Temple Care is a chance to come together in community to care for the spaces that support our practice- both inside and out. This monthly event is lightly and joyfully held by Jen Scott, our landscaping team and our Eco Dharma Council.

We begin at 10:00 am with a short welcome circle in the foyer, grounding ourselves in shared intention. From there, we divide into two groups:
• Indoor crew – cleaning and organizing to the meditation hall and indoor spaces
• Outdoor crew – weeding, gardening, caring for the labyrinth, sweeping, and helping steward the land

At 12:00 pm, we come back together for a 30-minute meditation, held either in the hall or outdoors, depending on the day and weather.

There are many ways to engage in spiritual practice- one way is through service.  We hope you’ll join us!

For more information or to get on the text/email list for Temple Care, please reach out to Jen at Jen@mtstream.org

Topic: Dependent Origination - How Suffering Comes Together and Falls Apart
Five Sundays with Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Sundays, October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
Times: Weeks 1 to 4, 2:00 to 3:30 pm PT
Closing half-day, 12:30 to 3:30 pm PT

Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price) 
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class) 
$125 ($25/Class) 

Pre-registration is required.
To register: Square online payment link coming soon.
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to everyone once registered and paid in full.

Course Description: The Buddha called dependent origination the heart of his teaching, and he warned his student Ananda in the same breath that it only looks simple. It's the map of how suffering assembles itself, moment by moment, and the map of how it can come undone.

Over five Sundays we'll take our time with it, one turn of the wheel at a time, until it moves from abstraction into something we can work with directly in our own experience. The whole purpose of this teaching is to be able to work with it, moment to moment.

The workshop stays rooted in the Buddha’s teaching from the Suttas and the down-to-earth, experiential approach of the Thai Forest teachers (Ajahn Chah and those who carried his lineage forward). We'll also borrow from the Tibetan wheel of life as a map for the journey. 

Because the teaching builds week by week, this series is offered as a whole. Every session will be recorded and shared, along with articles, suggested practices, and other resources to work with between Sundays, so missing a week isn’t a problem.

• Week 1. The Whole Wheel. An overview of the teaching and why the Buddha placed it at the center of everything.

• Week 2. How Experience Arrives. The senses, contact, and feeling, and how a moment puts itself together before we've consciously done anything.

• Week 3. The Turning Point. Where craving takes hold, and the small gap where practice reaches in.

• Week 4. The Birth of a Self. How an "I" gets built, again and again, throughout an ordinary day.

• Week 5. The Way Through. A closing half-day. How the whole process comes apart, with time to sit with it and let it ripen, and the movement from suffering toward freedom.

The first four Sundays run 2:00 to 3:30 pm. The closing session on November 22 runs longer, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, with a tea break, giving us room to practice together and let the teaching settle.

A little meditation experience helps but not required, and the teaching stands on its own for newer practitioners as well.

Teacher Support: During the course series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Topic: Dependent Origination - How Suffering Comes Together and Falls Apart
Five Sundays with Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Sundays, October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
Times: Weeks 1 to 4, 2:00 to 3:30 pm PT
Closing half-day, 12:30 to 3:30 pm PT

Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price) 
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class) 
$125 ($25/Class) 

Pre-registration is required.
To register: Square online payment link coming soon.
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to everyone once registered and paid in full.

Course Description: The Buddha called dependent origination the heart of his teaching, and he warned his student Ananda in the same breath that it only looks simple. It's the map of how suffering assembles itself, moment by moment, and the map of how it can come undone.

Over five Sundays we'll take our time with it, one turn of the wheel at a time, until it moves from abstraction into something we can work with directly in our own experience. The whole purpose of this teaching is to be able to work with it, moment to moment.

The workshop stays rooted in the Buddha’s teaching from the Suttas and the down-to-earth, experiential approach of the Thai Forest teachers (Ajahn Chah and those who carried his lineage forward). We'll also borrow from the Tibetan wheel of life as a map for the journey. 

Because the teaching builds week by week, this series is offered as a whole. Every session will be recorded and shared, along with articles, suggested practices, and other resources to work with between Sundays, so missing a week isn’t a problem.

• Week 1. The Whole Wheel. An overview of the teaching and why the Buddha placed it at the center of everything.

• Week 2. How Experience Arrives. The senses, contact, and feeling, and how a moment puts itself together before we've consciously done anything.

• Week 3. The Turning Point. Where craving takes hold, and the small gap where practice reaches in.

• Week 4. The Birth of a Self. How an "I" gets built, again and again, throughout an ordinary day.

• Week 5. The Way Through. A closing half-day. How the whole process comes apart, with time to sit with it and let it ripen, and the movement from suffering toward freedom.

The first four Sundays run 2:00 to 3:30 pm. The closing session on November 22 runs longer, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, with a tea break, giving us room to practice together and let the teaching settle.

A little meditation experience helps but not required, and the teaching stands on its own for newer practitioners as well.

Teacher Support: During the course series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Topic: Dependent Origination - How Suffering Comes Together and Falls Apart
Five Sundays with Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Sundays, October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
Times: Weeks 1 to 4, 2:00 to 3:30 pm PT
Closing half-day, 12:30 to 3:30 pm PT

Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price) 
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class) 
$125 ($25/Class) 

Pre-registration is required.
To register: Square online payment link coming soon.
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to everyone once registered and paid in full.

Course Description: The Buddha called dependent origination the heart of his teaching, and he warned his student Ananda in the same breath that it only looks simple. It's the map of how suffering assembles itself, moment by moment, and the map of how it can come undone.

Over five Sundays we'll take our time with it, one turn of the wheel at a time, until it moves from abstraction into something we can work with directly in our own experience. The whole purpose of this teaching is to be able to work with it, moment to moment.

The workshop stays rooted in the Buddha’s teaching from the Suttas and the down-to-earth, experiential approach of the Thai Forest teachers (Ajahn Chah and those who carried his lineage forward). We'll also borrow from the Tibetan wheel of life as a map for the journey. 

Because the teaching builds week by week, this series is offered as a whole. Every session will be recorded and shared, along with articles, suggested practices, and other resources to work with between Sundays, so missing a week isn’t a problem.

• Week 1. The Whole Wheel. An overview of the teaching and why the Buddha placed it at the center of everything.

• Week 2. How Experience Arrives. The senses, contact, and feeling, and how a moment puts itself together before we've consciously done anything.

• Week 3. The Turning Point. Where craving takes hold, and the small gap where practice reaches in.

• Week 4. The Birth of a Self. How an "I" gets built, again and again, throughout an ordinary day.

• Week 5. The Way Through. A closing half-day. How the whole process comes apart, with time to sit with it and let it ripen, and the movement from suffering toward freedom.

The first four Sundays run 2:00 to 3:30 pm. The closing session on November 22 runs longer, 12:30 to 3:30 pm, with a tea break, giving us room to practice together and let the teaching settle.

A little meditation experience helps but not required, and the teaching stands on its own for newer practitioners as well.

Teacher Support: During the course series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm - In Person Only

Queer Sangha is a peer-led meditation and community group for all who find affinity in queerness. We come together to practice meditation and build community, resilience, and solidarity through Sangha- a Buddhist word for the community who practices together.

Our gatherings include a 30-minute meditation (seated, laying down, or standing all very welcome), a time to share and listen to each other, a metta (loving kindness) blessing, and walking meditation.

We are a peer-held, collective space. Meditation guidance is available for those whom it would be supportive. 

Join us! This space is open to Queer identified folks, as well as all who are exploring the possibility of queerness as a part of their identity.

This group is offered freely. Donations are gratefully received and support the Center. Temple Donations (Dana)

Sitting and Sangha is a weekly meeting for group practice and discussion of dharma topics. Meetings are facilitated by senior dharma practitioners and community leaders. The group is inspired by the framework of a Kalyana Mitta (spiritual friendship) group, and the intention is to create a supportive and friendly environment for sharing and spiritual connection. The emphasis on the third jewel (Sangha) as a vehicle for practice provides the opportunity for sharing wisdom and building community. Meetings are held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Format: 

-     Period of sitting Meditation with Guidance 

-     Short Break (5 min)

-     Introduction of Dharma Topic 

-     Council Practice (with talking stick)

-     Metta/sharing of Merit

Guidelines for Sitting & Sangha

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday
Center Open: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Silent Meditation: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, jen@mtstream.org to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation Practice Circle
Peer-led, In Person Only
We meet every last Sunday of the month, 10:00 - 11:30 am - All are welcome
Facilitated by Dharma Practitioners Tim Cardoza and Priscilla Barton

Description: Metta (lovingkindess) meditation practices are a powerful part of the Buddha’s legacy. These practices have the ability to substantially deepen our feelings of love and connection with others and to help us transform difficult mind states such as fear and anger into more wholesome states of caring and kindness.  Scientific studies on metta meditation practices have shown they can increase feelings of wellbeing and improve both mental and physical health.

The group format will include reading/chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta, Monthly Topic, Guided Meditation and Discussion

Suggested reading:  Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg

Dana (Donations) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$25 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TEMPLE DANA (DONATION)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Sound Healing with Miyu Tamamura
6:00 to 7:00 pm
An indoor, in-person evening with crystal bowls.

A suggested Donation of $15 - $30 to be shared equally between Miyu and Mountain Stream. Thank you!
To make a donation in advance, you can either mail a check made out to:
Mountain Stream Meditation, PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
or use a credit card by opening this link below:

Safety protocols and guidelines for participating:
We kindly ask that participants agree to follow the safety protocols and guidelines. In the spirit of non-harming, safety is achieved with everyone’s mindful participation.
Masking is optional. We ask that participants refrain from attending if they have had any respiratory or flu symptoms, including any of the following symptoms of Covid-19: loss of taste and smell, fever, chills, extreme fatigue, nausea or vomiting, dry cough, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, dizziness or confusion, sore throat, muscle aches. If you are experiencing seasonal allergies, please be sure and take an at home rapid test before attending - Thank you.

We also ask that you refrain from attending if you have had contact with anyone in the past 10 days that has been diagnosed with Covid-19 or was exhibiting any of the above symptoms unless you have passed two negative Covid tests since contact. 

If you have any questions, please consult with Miyu at (530) 205-8610 before attending.

About Miyu Tamamura: Miyu’s commitment to transformation and healing is the very energy that plays her orchestra of Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, returning us to the silence within. Miyu has been teaching the monthly program of Sound Healing Meditation at Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, California since 2019, as well as collaborating with various yoga, Qigong and meditation teachers, musicians and artists holding retreats, workshops and concerts in the U.S. and Japan.

Miyu was born and raised in Kyoto Japan, graduated from Kyoto University of Art with a bachelor degree in Modern Art before she moved to the U.S. in 2000. As a certified Shiatsu Therapist, Miyu’s practice is deep listening, holding a healing space for one to integrate and harmonize all aspects of self. Miyu established YU Healing Arts with her husband in Nevada City, California, the clinic has been dedicated to the healing arts including Sound Healing, Shiatsu Therapy, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine since 2004. 

Miyu’s eclectic background and experiential approach to truth and Japanese heritage are infused in all her practices and artistic expressions.

More information about Miyu: www.yuhealingarts.com

Temple Care & Garden Care + Sitting Meditation
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is 12:00 - 12:30 pm)

Temple Care is a chance to come together in community to care for the spaces that support our practice- both inside and out. This monthly event is lightly and joyfully held by Jen Scott, our landscaping team and our Eco Dharma Council.

We begin at 10:00 am with a short welcome circle in the foyer, grounding ourselves in shared intention. From there, we divide into two groups:
• Indoor crew – cleaning and organizing to the meditation hall and indoor spaces
• Outdoor crew – weeding, gardening, caring for the labyrinth, sweeping, and helping steward the land

At 12:00 pm, we come back together for a 30-minute meditation, held either in the hall or outdoors, depending on the day and weather.

There are many ways to engage in spiritual practice- one way is through service.  We hope you’ll join us!

For more information or to get on the text/email list for Temple Care, please reach out to Jen at Jen@mtstream.org