Patrick Kearney is an independent dharma teacher in the lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw. He has trained extensively in the Mahasi approach to insight meditation, his principal teachers being Paṇḍitārāma Sayādaw and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen Buddhism. His original teacher was Robert Aitken Rōshi, and he is now studying with Paul Maloney Rōshi.

Patrick has a particular interest in the original teachings of the Buddha — Buddhism as it was before Theravāda or Mahāyāna were ever thought of. He studies Pāli, the language of the earliest surviving Indian recension of the Buddha's teachings, and seeks to bring his understanding of the early texts to the practice of dharma in the contemporary world.

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dhar.ma

1. fundamental nature of reality.
2. one's response to that nature; duty.
3. the teaching of the Buddha.

[Origin: 1790–1800; < Skt: custom, duty, akin to dharayati upholds, maintains]

sa.lon

1. a reception room in a house.
2. a hall or room for the practice of dharma.
3. an assembly of guests in such a room, esp. one consisting of those interested in society, philosophy, politics, Buddhism, etc.

[Origin: 1705 - 15; < F < It salone, equiv. to Skt & Pali sala hall]

dhar.ma sa.lon
A place where friends gather to practise and discuss the Buddha's Dharma.

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