In the Buddha's teaching, the highest happiness is peace. It's not the peaceful feeling that comes and goes all the time, but the sense that you are already home—that your search has ended. When we are not caught up in a narrow and endless search for peace somewhere else, our mind quiets and our heart naturally opens to each other and the world. We wake up.
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Howard Cohn has practiced meditation since 1972, and has led vipassana retreats since 1985. He leads a weekly ongoing class in San Francisco. Howard has studied with many Asian and western teachers of several traditions, including Theravada, Zen, Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta, and has been strongly influenced by contact with the Indian master H.W.L. Poonja. He has done postgraduate work in East/West Psychology and has a private counseling practice.