{"id":1784,"date":"2025-06-06T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:31:02","slug":"supernuclear-case-study-the-dhamma-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Supernuclear: Case Study: The Dhamma Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1024x970.png?resize=500%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?resize=1024%2C970 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?resize=300%2C284 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?resize=768%2C728 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?resize=800%2C758 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png?w=1180 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dhamma Pad was a shared co-living house for people dedicated to the practice of meditation, located in the heart of Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its early years, having completed at least one 10-day&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhamma.org\/\">Vipassana meditation course taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/supernuclear.substack.com\/p\/case-study-the-dhamma-pad\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dhamma Pad was a shared co-living house for people dedicated to the practice of meditation, located in the heart of Berkeley, CA. 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