David Nichtern: The 4 Skillful Actions
Workshop Teacher:
David Nichtern
Workshop Location:
12 West 27 St. 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Workshop Date:
Tuesday, June 17 2025
Workshop Time (EST):
8-9:45pm
Workshop Price:
$40
Even with a compassionate heart and the best of intentions, our interaction with others can be clumsy, ineffective, and even counter productive. In the Buddhist tradition, developing skillful means is an important addition to the cultivation of wisdom and compassion.
In meditation, we can start with gentleness and precision to see the situation clearly beyond our own filters and habitual patterns. But when we re-enter the activity of our everyday lives – it becomes important to know what action will be truly effective – perhaps more so now than ever.
“Traditionally when we talk about using skillful means to create positive outcomes, we are referring to four strategies that help shape a good intention into a skillful action:
- Pacifying aggressive situations
- Enriching impoverished situations
- Magnetizing isolating situations
- Destroying harmful situations
— Awakening from the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha’s Wheel of Life – by David Nichtern
Workshop will include meditation practice and instruction, talk and discussion. Open to all levels.
Price: $40
10% discount for SOUK All-In Members
ABOUT David:
David Nichtern (Founder & CEO Dharma Moon) is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970.
David is the author of the critically acclaimed books Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world via his Dharma Moon platform.
He is also a highly regarded composer, producer and guitarist. David has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, he wrote the classic hit song “Midnight at the Oasis” and composed the score for Christopher Guest’s film “The Big Picture”. In recent years he has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy nominated kirtan singer Krishna Das.
*10% off for SOUK all in members
**Cancellations must be made 24 hours prior