Comparison of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California to Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation in Zurich

Last Updated on February 10, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Commonly called Spirit Rock, is a meditation center in Woodacre, California. It focuses on the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana, or Insight Meditation tradition. It was founded in 1985 as Insight Meditation West, and is visited by an estimated 40,000 people a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Rock_Meditation_Center

Founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center is Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers in the Western Insight tradition. He is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology, and is a father, husband and activist.

https://www.spiritrock.org/jack-kornfield

Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich

Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Study Group is dedicated to the study and practice of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism. The goal of Lhagsam is to bring more peace, balance and happiness not only to our own minds, but also to our immediate environment and ultimately to all universal beings. Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich is affiliated with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).

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https://lhagsam.ch/support-us/

https://www.youtube.com/@lhagsamtibetanmeditation6830/about

Who is founding teacher of Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich?

Is founding teacher of Lhagsam Zurich Roche Pharma (Switzerland) Ltd, Basel, to find out, if Roche can sell new fMRI brain scanners in Zurich?

Who else has the money to fly teachers from around the world to Zurich only to record a YouTube video from them and then fly them back? Other meditation centers invite only rarely teachers from around the world if they pass by in Zurich, or invite speaker through Skype. Lhagsam flies them to Zurich on a regular basis only to record YouTube videos. Does Lhagsam make this much money out of recording YouTube videos, so that Lhagsam can afford this?

We have excellent YouTube videos about Tibetan meditation on YouTube from Sogyal Rinpoche, Matthieu Ricard, Jack Kornfield and other great teachers. Who needs new recordings from meditation teachers from around the world who fly to Zurich to record a YouTube video there? Furthermore, not all talks recorded at Laghsam in Zurich to YouTube videos are easy to digest, and sometimes seem as if they were read from a textbook. Do the persons who invite the teachers have digested Tibetan Buddhism themselves?