After 25 years on the street as a visiting nurse in inner city Boston, I am a little worn around the edges. Winter is a particularly challenging time; carrying bags over mounds of snow and just trying to find a place to park. The Natural Love and Awareness Meditation is an integral part of my own "treatment plan." [ read more ]

Since 2004 Terry Conrad has been sponsoring programs with inmates at the maximum security prison in Beaumont, Texas, including a meditation class, an ethics course based on the Dalai Lama's book Ethics for the New Millennium and a Lojong correspondence course. [ read more ]

I’ve been doing Natural Wisdom and Compassion practice for several years and recently began to lead the practice in the newly formed New York City NWC meditation group. As my experience with the practice has evolved, I find myself, throughout the day, tapping into the energy of love that continuously surrounds all of us. [ read more ]

The practice of Natural Wisdom and Compassion, as transmitted by Lama John, has unequivocally transformed my life. During a week-long retreat where I was introduced to this practice, I was wisely, compassionately and skillfully guided by Lama John into a way of being which I had previously only skeptically read about. [ read more ]

Providing an atmosphere for others to get quiet and settle into their own deepest recesses has been a sincere pleasure of mine since I have been leading meditation. Whether I lead the group on Tuesday evenings here in Portland, Maine, or I am asked to facilitate the meditation in some other setting, I am always amazed at the “grace” that settles over me... [ read more ]

In my work as a psychotherapist, I teach and utilize the Natural Wisdom and Compassion practice with my private clients, with the psychologists and social workers I supervise, and with volunteer groups that I facilitate.
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I was introduced to Lama John Makransky and the Natural Wisdom and Compassion meditations in 2001, when I began attending week-long retreats sponsored by the Dzogchen Center. In 2004, I was one of twelve people who participated in the first one-hundred-day retreat held at Dzogchen Center’s Osel Ling in Austin, Texas. [ read more ]