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The Three Paths of Practice
HEALING, TRANSFORMATION, AWAKENING

FCM offers teachings that are relevant to the realities of day-to-day life and support personal transformation. While practicing in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, we take inspiration and guidance from the full breadth of Buddhist teachings. We are creative and experimental in our forms since we desire to be relevant and accessible to American culture and issues.

As an engaged Buddhist community, our understanding and practice of the Buddha’s teachings – the Dharma – has developed organically over the past three decades. The 2,600-year old Buddhist lineage offers a deep and rich trove of traditional teachings and meditation practices. Through the interplay of this lineage with the needs, aspirations and aptitudes of our modern Western community, a natural unfolding of Dharma practice has evolved.

Under the guidance of our teacher, Fred Eppsteiner, FCM has created a three-part developmental path for Dharma practice and personal transformation: the Mindful Living Path, the Dharma Path, and the Wisdom Path. Its purpose is to take the practitioner from a life of unsatisfactoriness, superficiality, emotionality and egocentricity to a life of meaning, depth, stability of positive emotions, and selflessness.

FCM offers teachings that are relevant to the realities of day-to-day life and lead to personal transformation. While practicing in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, we take inspiration and guidance from the full breadth of Buddhist teachings. We are creative and experimental in our forms since we desire to be relevant and accessible to American culture and issues.

As an engaged Buddhist community, our understanding and practice of the Buddha’s teachings – the Dharma – has developed organically over the past three decades. The 2,600-year old Buddhist lineage offers a deep and rich trove of traditional teachings and meditation practices. Through the interplay of this lineage with the needs, aspirations and aptitudes of our modern Western community, a natural unfolding of Dharma practice has evolved.

Under the guidance of our teacher, Fred Eppsteiner, FCM has created a three-part developmental path for Dharma practice and personal transformation: the Mindful Living Path, the Dharma Path, and the Wisdom Path. Its purpose is to take the practitioner from a life of unsatisfactoriness, superficiality, emotionality and egocentricity to a life of meaning, depth, stability of positive emotions, and selflessness.

Mindful Living Path
Beginning Your Practice


We often come to this path because we are experiencing stress, uncertainty as to the direction our life is taking, and/or we are searching for greater meaning. The Mindful Living Path teaches mindfulness and emotional healing so that we can begin to reorient our life in a meaningful way. We learn to calm the mind, open the heart, and begin to transform our patterns of emotional reactivity, while learning to appreciate the many simple wonders of life that are always available to us.

This path can be practiced by anyone, regardless of faith or religious tradition.

Dharma Path
Deepening Your Practice


With greater clarity of mind and a lessening of afflictive emotions, we now turn our minds toward a clear view of reality, including the truths of impermanence, cause and effect, and the inability of transient worldly conditions to bring lasting happiness. Buddhist teachings on bodhicitta and walking the path of the Bodhisattva help bring deeper meaning and purpose to our lives, and the sense of self that has limited us for so long begins to diminish.

This path is suitable for those who feel inspired to experience and live from Bodhichitta, uprooting suffering from their lives and helping alleviate the suffering of others.

Wisdom Path
Expanding Awareness


The Wisdom Path is for those who aspire to awaken to who they really are and be of benefit to others. Under the guidance of our teacher, students receive teachings and practices that enable them to increasingly realize their true nature. Practices focus on meditative insight and direct experience into the nature of mind, using the teachings of Zen, Chan and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen).

This path is suitable for those who aspire to know the nature of their mind and experience true liberation.

Florida Community of Mindfulness, Tampa Center
6501 N. Nebraska Avenue
Tampa, FL 33604

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