Life as Dhamma Practice
A 6-Week online Series for Young Adults 18-35
led by Ron Browning and Paul Vincent Cable
Weekly on Sundays
February 1st-March 8th, 2026 8am-10am PST / 11am-1pm EST
About this Series
Fully Living the Dhamma is a six-week live series that invites us to explore the alive edge of our practice—to touch what is most real and vital in our lives. Rather than standing back as viewers or consumers of our own experience, this is an invitation to step fully in: to inquire deeply, to care, to feel. Together, we’ll discover how the Dhamma comes alive when we meet it directly, with curiosity and sincerity.
Over Ron and Paul’s combined 75 years of Dhamma practice—including more than 11 years in intensive meditation retreats—their paths have continually brought them back to the heart. Rooted in the early Theravāda teachings of the Buddha and expressed through the direct experience of their own lives, their practice and teaching both arise from the understanding that Dhamma is not abstract philosophy—it’s alive in every moment, in every relationship, and in the way we meet our own minds and hearts.
Together, they’ve come to recognize five essential insights—each of which, had they understood them sooner, could have accelerated their practice, spared years of uncertainty, and opened their hearts to a deeper, steadier, more powerful and integrated ways of living the Dhamma.
These insights are not shortcuts, nor promises of quick results. They are keys of the heart—understandings that bring clarity, compassion, and discernment to practice, and if fully applied, have to potential to accelerate a deepening of insight and wisdom. When integrated and lived, they naturally guide us toward freedom while keeping our practice grounded in the realities of life.
This highly interactive and relational program is for those ready to fully engage with the Dhamma as a living practice—to weave meditation, insight, and compassion into the fabric of their lives, and to cultivate a clear, skillful, and sustainable path of awakening.
Program Format: The series will be structured in a way that weaves together, teachings, discussions, practice / guided meditations , and practices and contemplations to investigate in your daily life.
Ron and Paul will bring in suttas (teachings from the Buddha) throughout the series, curated in response to what you share about your life, practice, and the obstacles you’re meeting. The intention is to offer source teachings that speak directly to where you are—bridging ancient wisdom and present-moment experience. In this way, the suttas come alive not as relics of the past, but as living conversations between your own wisdom and the Buddha’s
This series will be held over Zoom weekly on Sundays from Feburary 1st-March 8th, 8am-10:00am PST / 11am-1:00pm EST.
The series is offered by-donation in the spirit of generosity, or dāna. Find out more about the practice of dāna here
Our Teachers
Paul Vincent Cable
Paul has been in the Dhamma for over 20 years, practicing in monasteries and forests in Europe, the US and Asia, and with many leading teachers. He has wide knowledge of the suttas as well as of different meditative traditions. He has conducted a 10-year experiment with his own lay life to optimize it for Dharma practice. An educator and coach by background, Paul has a passion for bringing wise and compassionate living to everyone's upbringing and has worked extensively with young people. He has also worked for decades with children and is the creator of a loving-kindness program for kindergarten, which runs in slums and refugee camps. Paul also mentored his son, Ayrton, a multi-award-winning social change youth leader, who introduced a new Bill to the UK Parliament aged 9 to end factory farming. He is author of the blog on wise and fulfilled living, Crossing the Stream. Paul lives in the English countryside with his wife, now-22-year-old son, and their meditative cat Wilbur.
Ron Browning
Coming from Dallas Texas to UC Berkeley in the midst of a cultural and psychedelic revolution, Ron practiced for several years in San Francisco under the guidance of Suzuki Shunryu Roshi (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind). Ordained as in priest by Suzuki Roshi, Ron then spent a year and a half in Japan during which time he lived and practiced at Zen monasteries. Following his Zen monastic training, Ron went back to school earning a PhD in Clinical Psychology and leading large transformational trainings for 6 years. While in school he discovered Vipassana and the Buddha's early teachings in the Pali Canon. After graduation, Ron undertook what he thought would be a short-term 4 month ordination as a Theravada Bhikkhu that ended up lasting 5 1/2 years. Since then Ron has married, continued practice, doing over 25 Three Month retreats, while also working as a corporate and executive consultant and coach. He currently lives north of San Francisco with his wife, Joanne.
The 5 Keys of the Heart we’ll be exploring…
Clarifying Your Deepest Motivation: Your “Why” for Walking the Path
Instead of asking what would make me work harder or be more committed, we’ll explore a subtler question: What do I actually want to do? What do I want to fully show up for—joyfully, wholeheartedly, with energy and care?
What is the deepest calling of your heart?
What sustains effort and commitment over the long journey?
How do you cultivate an unshakable motivation that keeps you moving forward?
Understanding How the Path Unfolds Toward Liberation
Discover what supports the natural progression of practice as it deepens over time.
Recognize common pitfalls—how to avoid them, and when caught, how to meet and release them with wisdom and patience.
Deepen your understanding and lived practice of Sīla (ethical conduct), Samādhi (concentration / stability of heart-mind), and Paññā (wisdom) as interdependent foundations of the path.
Understanding Your Own Mind and Life with Greater Clarity and Kindness
Reflect deeply on where you are in your life and practice, creating a personal map for your journey.
Recognize the patterns of mind that support freedom—and those that obscure it.
Learn to see how your mind moves in meditation, relationships, and daily life, with compassion rather than judgment.
Mapping Your Own Path: From Understanding to Living the Dhamma
Integrate insights and self-knowledge into a practical, evolving roadmap for your journey.
Develop a personalized, heart-aligned approach to practice.
Create the inner and outer conditions in your life that support steady, balanced progress.
Walking the Path with Guidance and Sangha
Engage in structured reflection, dialogue, and shared practice.
Receive guidance rooted in the Dhamma and early teachings of the Buddha, shared through the lens of lived experience.
Travel the Path together with a small group of committed practitioners—supporting one another in authenticity, humility, and joy.
The series is offered by-donation in the spirit of generosity, or dāna. Find out more about the practice of dāna here