Study the Dharma the way you'd take a course.

Most introductions to Buddhism hand you doctrines to memorize. This one has you read what the Buddha actually said. Over twelve sessions we walk through twelve carefully chosen discourses — arranged in learning order, from the most concrete and useful toward the more subtle — the way a college seminar reads a primary source.

Six centuries before a Tibetan monk studies the mind or emptiness, they first learn to catch bad reasoning in front of their peers — starting with the safest possible subject, colors and shapes. This course borrows that training method for English speakers with zero background in Buddhist philosophy.

Collected Topics teaches the grammar of debate. This course points that grammar at the question everything else depends on: why trust this teacher at all? Read the way The Buddha's Own Words reads the suttas — lecture notes, core argument, discussion, assignment — not as a debate game.

Most people read a good meditation guide, sit once, and never sit again — not from bad instructions, but because nobody taught them what to do about the tenth day. This course is built entirely around that gap: building the habit first, then working through the stages of calm and insight, one week of real practice at a time.

Reads the Mahāyāna's own scriptures the way The Buddha's Own Words reads the earliest suttas — starting with the shortest, most essential text in the whole canon. Session 1 uses the negation lesson from Collected Topics to get past the two classic misreadings of the Heart Sūtra: nihilism, and mere word-games.