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About Lama Michael Gregory
About Lama Michael Gregory
Welcome to Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings, where we offer a comprehensive and interactive online and in person course and retreats on the complete Buddhist path to liberation. Our courses follow the traditional stages of Lam Rim, which is also known as the Stages to Path of Enlightenment. Our online interactive course system offers clear
Welcome to Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings, where we offer a comprehensive and interactive online and in person course and retreats on the complete Buddhist path to liberation. Our courses follow the traditional stages of Lam Rim, which is also known as the Stages to Path of Enlightenment. Our online interactive course system offers clear, interactive Buddhist Online Teachings that provide every teaching on the path, including Mahayana, Tantra and Dzogchen teachings.
Teachings are designed to help you gain a deep understanding of the classical teachings of Buddhism in a clear and lucid way. Our Teachers, Lama Michael and Lama Philip and many other teachers from diverse backgrounds and genders have years of experience in teaching and long term retreat experience.
About Lama Michael Gregory
About Lama Michael Gregory
About Lama Michael Gregory
Lama Michael Gregory is a Buddhist teacher whose training spans more than three decades across the Indo-Tibetan and Theravāda traditions. Beginning his studies in the early 1990s, he apprenticed under many of the greatest meditation masters of Tibet, including HH The Dalai Lama, his root teacher from his teenage years- HH Penor Rinpoche,
Lama Michael Gregory is a Buddhist teacher whose training spans more than three decades across the Indo-Tibetan and Theravāda traditions. Beginning his studies in the early 1990s, he apprenticed under many of the greatest meditation masters of Tibet, including HH The Dalai Lama, his root teacher from his teenage years- HH Penor Rinpoche, HH Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, His Eminence Thrangu Rinpoche, and numerous yogic practitioners throughout the Indian Himalaya.
He received the three-year retreat empowerments directly from H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche and went on to complete many years of solitary and group retreat in the Indian and Tibetan Himalaya, and the jungle of Northern Thailand, and Burma. His practice includes extended training in Mahamudra, Dzogchen, the Six Yogas, dark-retreat methods, and classical training in Theravadin Vipassanā and Jhana.
In early 2020, under the guidance of H.E. Thrangu Rinpoche, Lama Michael served as Retreat Master for the lineage’s final three-year retreat held in the mountains of Southern California, guiding and supporting practitioners through one of the most intensive cycles of traditional practice.
Today, Lama Michael oversees the Quiet Mind Wellness Centers and the Pemako Retreat Center just outside San Diego. He teaches weekly online and leads seasonal retreats, emphasizing direct experience, psychological clarity, and the unified contemplative heritage of India and Tibet.
He lives in the forested hills of Tuscany, near Florence, with his wife of ten years, two cats, and two dogs, dedicating his life to meditation practice, writing, retreat guidance, and the wellbeing of all students who seek a path of awakening grounded in wisdom, compassion, and the luminous nature of mind.
Join Our Free 6 Week Mindfulness Course with Lama Michael
A Serious Introduction to Mindfulness: 6 Video Classes
This six-week video course offers a contemplative and deeply compassionate journey. Led by Lama Michael this transformative course introduces the classical foundations of Buddhist mindfulness. Practices illuminate how to watch your unfolding mental and emotional world non-reactively and respond with heart, and wisdom.
Online and In Person Retreats
Discover Our Transformational Buddhist Retreat Programs
Retreat offers an valuable space in which we can devote ourselves to our potential for awakening, limitless bodhicitta, compassion, wisdom and insight. We offer everything from foundational to advanced buddhist retreats from Theravada, Mahayana, Tantra, Mahamudra and Dzogchen Teaching and Lineages.
The Quiet Mind Buddhist Retreat Center in San Diego, CA
Quiet Mind Retreat Center was created to assist contemplatives and meditators as a place to practice with with ongoing instruction from among the very best of living yogis and scholars. We focus on on providing the most supportive solo retreat and group retreat experience with crystal clear teaching and meditation.
If your mind is pure, Everyone is a Buddha. If your mind is impure, Everyone is ordinary. ~ Trulshik Rinpoche
