The North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center provides a safe and supportive environment for learning and practicing meditation and the dharma on the North Shore and in the surrounding Chicago area. Under the guidance of resident teacher Xianyang Carl Jerome, the Center offers beginner and advanced meditation and dharma classes, retreats, and special events at the Center, as well as continuing ed and wellness classes at area schools and interfaith facilities.Explore Ancient Texts and Modern Practice Commentaries.
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Xianyang Carl Jerome currently teaches meditation and the dharma near Chicago at the North Shore Meditation & Dharma Center, which he founded, as well as at the Cancer Wellness Center in Northbrook, at Common Ground in Deerfield, and in Chicago. Carl has practiced meditation for much of his adult life and Buddhism formally for the past twenty-five years.
Email or call 847-890-1446 for exact times and dates. The aim of the meditation taught in our classes, in which we sit and focus on the breath, is to eliminate the omnipresent stress and anxiety of everyday life. People are often surprised to find it is difficult to meditate and to understand and apply the insights that arise from meditation.