At sixteen, I had an experience that changed the entire orientation of my life — a direct, unmistakable recognition of the non-dual nature of reality. I didn’t have a framework for it at the time. What I had was certainty: that something vast and luminous was always already present beneath the surface of ordinary experience, and that I wanted to spend my life understanding it.
That pursuit has taken me through thirty years of contemplative practice and formal academic study. I hold a PhD in Asian Comparative Studies with a focus in Indian Philosophy of Religion. I am a practitioner within the Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition, and a student of Trika Śaivism. My formation spans meditation, yoga, Buddhist philosophy, and Tantra — not as intellectual interests alone, but as living disciplines tested against the full weight of actual life.
My work begins from a simple but countercultural premise: the sacred is not sequestered in temples, on meditation cushions, or behind institutional religious doors. Contemplative wisdom — the kind that has been refined across millennia and across cultures — is eminently practical. It speaks directly to the texture of ordinary experience: to difficulty, to uncertainty, to the search for meaning when life refuses to cooperate.
I founded The Institute of Abiding Bliss to create a space where that wisdom is made genuinely accessible — rigorous enough to be real, grounded enough to be useful. Whether you are new to contemplative practice or arrive with years of your own, my role is not to hand you a system but to help you recognize what is already present in your own awareness.
You are, as the traditions unanimously affirm, already whole. The work is one of uncovering, not acquiring.
