You are invited to a 3-week course with Adam Stonebraker
Topic: Practicing with the Suttas
Date: Three consecutive Wednesday evenings: August 12, 19, and 26, 2026
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Location: In Person at the Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959 or
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
Cost: Offered in the spirit of dana/generosity. Suggested donation: $15 - $30 per class.
Drop-ins welcome
Course Description: The early discourses can feel difficult to approach. The repetition, the long names, the sense that you need a scholar beside you to make any of it land. This series is meant to open the door to these profound teachings slowly.
Each week we take up a single short sutta and read it aloud, contemplatively, letting the words settle into the body before we reach for their meaning. We sit, we chant, we read, we discuss and we break the teaching open just enough to feel it speaking to our own lives. These texts were never meant to be studied from a distance. They were spoken to living people, in real places, about this feeling, this seeing, this fathom-long body. Read this way, they describe our own experience back to us.
In the spirit of the Thai Forest tradition, our emphasis stays on embodiment and direct experience. You come away not only knowing a few suttas, but trusting your own capacity to pick one up, read it slowly, and let it touch you.
No background with the texts is needed. Come for one evening or all three.
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