Brahma-Vihara Foundation
Our Guiding Teacher
DaeJa Napier is the founding and guiding teacher of the Brahma-Vihara Foundation.
She teaches Insight Meditation with a particular emphasis on the brahma-viharas.
She has studied and practiced in various Buddhist traditions for over thirty
years and has been teaching for seventeen. Her root teacher is Zen Master
Soeng Sahn. Dedicated to exploring the depths of the awakening process,
she maintains a yearly schedule of intensive practice. Most recently she
practiced under the guidance of Sayadaw U Janaka, Sayadaw U Pandita and
Joseph Goldstein. DaeJa is the mother of five adult children.
DaeJa responds to dharma students with intuitive precision and insight mirroring nuances of the awakening process that unfold naturally when practicing vipassana (insight meditation) and the brahma-viharas. Her conveyance of the Buddhist teachings reflect many qualities cultivated as a result of maintaining a formal practice over thirty-six years of mothering five children.
- The Four Brahma-Viharas
- metta
loving-kindness - karuna
compassion - mudita
appreciative joy - upekkha
equanimity - The Four Divine Abidings
The Brahma-Vihara Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization dedicated to the cultivation of the divine abidings in accordance with Buddhist teachings.