David McKay
David McKay (he/him) entered a Zen Buddhist monastery at the age of twenty-nine and spent the next eighteen years training there in silence. Over time he became a skilled facilitator and counselor, offering retreats and workshops at the monastery and across the country. David left the monastery in the fall of 2014 to further explore life and practice back in the world. He currently resides in the mountains of North Carolina, where he offers and supports awareness practice in the form of online and in-person meditation and discussion groups, workshops, one-on-one guidance, and retreats.
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Upcoming Programs by David McKay
[DAYLONG] Spiritual Practice in a Confused and Troubled World
It is easy to see the confused and troubled state our world is in. We humans have a remarkable capacity to create suffering for ourselves and for the other beings who share this planet with us, and an even more remarkable capacity to ignore that fact. It can be difficult and painful to observe the violence, the prejudice, […]
With Awareness Comes Choice
We suffer from that which we cannot see. We each have been trained to accept automated processes of thought within our minds, and the self-defeating 'reality' which these thought patterns create. The result is that we suffer in separation from our authentic nature. Someone who is 'unconscious', who identifies with these thought patterns and cannot […]