Peter Bolland

Join me at the beautiful San Diego Vedanta Monastery for my lecture presentation on the wisdom of Nisargadatta Maharaj, the surprisingly down-to-earth Guru of the Advaita Vedanta darshana. Free and no registration required.

After his near-fatal car accident, Mexican physician Don Miguel Ruiz became an apprentice of a Nagual or shaman in the Toltec tradition. His groundbreaking book The Four Agreements, a distillation of that indigenous American wisdom, has been translated into 48 languages and remained on the New York Times bestsellers list for ten years. At the heart of his work is the idea that our assumptions (our agreements) shape the quality of our lives, and when we craft new ways of thinking we greatly increase our freedom and power. Join us for this close look at each of the Four Agreements, and their intersections with philosophy, psychology, and world spirituality.

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Join us as we explore India’s most beloved sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita. Composed around the time of Christ, the Gita is the plain-talking culmination of the rich philosophical traditions begun in the earlier Vedas, Upanishad, and Buddhist texts. Like all literature, it is best approached in layers. What does the Bhagavad Gita teach about God, duty, ethics, war, society, consciousness, human nature, violence, and the beauty of being alive? A favorite book of Gandhi who carried chapter two in his pocket his whole life, and of Thoreau who brought only one book to Walden Pond, his copy of the Gita borrowed from his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Very few books have had this long a reach or this profound an impact. Let’s find out why. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BECAUSE OF REMODELING AT GROSSMONT OASIS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN SWITCHED TO ZOOM. CONTACT SAN DIEGO OASIS FOR DETAILS.

Join Peter Bolland and Joe Rathburn for an evening of beloved John Denver classics. Watch live in the room, or stream live online. Click here for tickets: https://visioncsl.breezechms.com/form/20261203

What happens when you set these two ancient wisdom teachers alongside one another? Let’s find out. By comparing their origin stories, the process of their transformation into Teachers, and the principles and practices of the paths they left for us, remarkable alignments arise as well as startling contrasts. Back before there was Buddhism and Christianity, who were Buddha and Jesus? SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BECAUSE OF REMODELING AT THE GROSSMONT OASIS LOCATION THIS EVENT HAS MOVED TO ZOOM. PLEASE CONTACT SAN DIEGO OASIS FOR DETAILS.

In this philosophical investigation of the nature of forgiveness we explore multiple perspectives on a series of age-old questions: What is the best way to repair the damage done by wrong-doing? Is some damage too great to repair? Does the wrong-doer need to take responsibility for their harms to be forgiven, or can the victim of their wrong-doing forgive them unilaterally? What are some of the different ways various religions approach the problem of forgiveness? What does it mean to forgive oneself, and why is it so difficult? THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT