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I have taught Buddhist and Shambhala courses in Mexico, I teach a Buddhist study group every week. Also, I have done voluntary work at the General Hospital to help dying people and their families in Cuernavaca, Mexico +
help line specializing in suicide prevention
cooking workshops for low income people +
Advisor to medical clinic development and teaching at Kagyu monasteries since 2007. Organizing Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche interviews at Sangha retreats and Nitartha 2005-2009.
Volunteer- Surgeon and Postgraduate Surgery Visiting Faculty, Georgetown Guyana 2006 and 2007. Canadian Assoc. General Surgeons
Volunteer Surgeon Medecins sans Frontiers 2007 (3 months) Beletweyne Somalia +
I founded two Buddhist Meditation Clubs at two universities in Denver - the Metropolitan State University (previously college) of Denver, and the University of Denver at Colorado. I directed the clubs for over five years and provided meditation instruction and dharma instruction to students. I am still assisting in that capacity with one of the clubs. +
When I was a child I volunteered at Thomas Jefferson University hospital for a summer. In the winter-spring of 2000 I traveled to Peru studied with and worked for a small nonprofit that focused on sustainable coffee plantation development. +
I've made many photo reports from different Dharma events around the world. Please check my photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/garchen_ru/albums +
Some environmental work in Colombia, arborization of public spaces within the city, Medellin. +
In the past I have helped in special needs and care facilites and have volunteered at hospice through Torrance Memorial hospital, Torrance, California which is where my mother has worked for over 30 years. All of these where short term offerings not +
My intention is to serve and be of benefit to all being with all that I do. +
I worked as a naturopathic doctor for ten years, and had a sliding scale payment policy for my clients: they only needed to cover my costs for the medicine at minimum. Other clients knew I provided this service so some paid over the normal costs to cover the costs of those in need. I was still able to live comfortably. +
The majority of my service at this time is to the Garchen Institute, however I do continue to help out those in need without means through cranial work. And in the past, I have been an active neighbor and community member in the areas I have lived in. See my curriculum vitae for some more specific details. +
I taught introductory Buddhism and meditation to grade-school children at Gomde California in October, 2015; in Cancun, Mexico in January, 2016; and to local college students in Kathmandu, Nepal in March, 2016. +
Red Cross in Romania, volunteer, First Aid, Dizasters +
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I helped with Anti-fascist campaigns during the early 90s when violent xenophobia flamed up in Germany, but was disillusioned by politics. I also worked with refugee children from Ex-Yugoslavia, and as an Au-pair in Paris, but found that I was of no real help. +
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i have been leading a dharma and recovery group for 8 years for those in 12 step recovery from addiction.
I have been bringing meditation and support to Mental health institutions in the northern California for those in need of support for addiction and recovery, those interested in mediation. +
cancer support +
Cancer support work +
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I help some Sangha members with free tree work. I teach Dharma to anyone who asks. I have been very forth coming in disclosing how to allocate resources effectively in both my patents and in a three volume dissertation with the hope that many in the future would benefit from allocating resources more effectively. I refused to pursue patent litigation when I was infringed upon and still disclosed many more techniques in a second patent. All of these inventions and techniques are now being used by others to more effectively allocate coal and other natural resources, which is and will continue to be a significant benefit for both man and the environment. The methods can also be applied to all bendable resources. I have provided free tutoring of Tibetans in English as a second language and I have provided free tutoring in math and help a couple of adults pass the GRE, enter graduate school and provided help in math and papers in graduate school. I have written many resumes over the years with no charge. +
I have been living in Williams, Oregon for over 33 years and have served the community as a Waldorf teacher, Executive Director and events coordinator for Communiversity (a non profit organisation), fundraiser, and volunteer at our local Grange beginning in 1982 for over a decade.
I created and directed the Williams Village Theatre group for teenagers which was an important focal point in the rural community for many years.
This year I have been working at our community pre-school two days a week. I have acted as an unofficial foster parent and mentor for several local teenagers over the years; and now have a live in seventeen year old work/study student. +
Initated small service project to feed the poor on Lafayette. Served in local Kiwanis group for 3 years in Arkansas serving the local poor children. Served on local service group in Arkansas, the Resource Council that helps with local projects. Visited women's prison for 3 years to share mind training. +
