The Dhamma Pad was a shared co-living house for people dedicated to the practice of meditation, located in the heart of Berkeley, CA.
The residents of this six-bedroom house frequently hosted community gatherings of 50-100 people in its two large communal spaces, as well as regular group meditations every Tuesday and Thursday night for 10-30 people. After a shared meditation and dharma discussion, everyone who came was treated to a delicious, healthy, lovingly-made vegetarian dinner.
In its early years, having completed at least one 10-day Vipassana meditation course taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka was a requirement for living at the Dhamma Pad, but later the requirement was loosened so that housemates only needed to be generally interested in meditation.
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