The program follows national education standards by maintaining a balanced curricula: Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Physical Education, Health & Guidance, Dharma Studies, and SAT prep-study skills. Furthermore, our group is structured and based on educational objectives as well as the needs of the child, cumulative and sequential, and provides a range of up-to-date knowledge and needed skills.

Satori is a Japanese word that roughly translates into "individual enlightenment." The Chinese refer to it as "Wu." Satori can also be described as a flash of awareness. Traditional ways of acquiring satori have been through meditation, introspection, and through the use of koans or "riddles." Some people achieve satori through dialogue much like how Greek philosophers analyzed and discussed life through lectures and inquiry with students and peers. Our students are encouraged to achieve satori through the combined efforts of daily action, relating to others, meditation practice, and inquiry into the nature of people. There is neither a right nor wrong way to acquire satori. You can neither force it nor deny it by way of the Socratic method or from cup of green tea. It simply is a profound personal experience that moves a person towards freedom.

Dharma refers to the teaching of Buddhism. We believe that we exist because of others and this points out to us that the nature of life is based on interdependence of all living things.

Our educational program also supports Students For A Free Tibet, www.tibet.org/sft, and all legitimate causes and organizations-affiliations which advocate Tibetan freedom and peaceful protest against the People's Republic of China which illegally occupies Tibet.

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