Lectures & Storytelling
Dr. Miles Neale guides each session through teaching, personal stories, and real-world application drawn from Tibetan Buddhist psychology.
Six-Week Virtual Pilgrimage Along the Lamrim
And what if that path had been refined over the centuries by great masters into a series of comprehensive stages and systematic steps that made it incredibly accessible to any seeker?
And what if those gradual steps were then artfully condensed and eloquently presented in a fourteen-verse prayer to easily internalize so that the entire path was available to us at any time?
And what if that condensed prayer taught us how to take any experience, the joys, and sorrows, the victories and challenges, as part of the path so that our entire life could be reframed as a spiritual opportunity to fulfill our innate potential and purpose?
Fortunately, all these questions have been affirmed and the possibility to awaken is available to us right now.
We need only the courage to embark on the adventure and the resolve to follow the gradual path to its culmination.
The Lamrim — Tibet's "Graded Path to Enlightenment" — is one of the most complete roadmaps for human flourishing ever devised. First brought from India to Tibet by the great master Atisha Dipamkara in the 11th century, it was later systematised by Tsongkhapa into a path that any sincere seeker could follow — monk or layperson, scholar or beginner.
At its heart, the Lamrim doesn't ask you to renounce the world. It asks you to see it more clearly. Each stage builds on the last — from understanding the preciousness of human life, to cultivating genuine compassion, to resting in the nature of mind itself. This course brings that living lineage directly to you — no monastery required.
Over six weeks, Dr. Miles Neale guides you through the Lamrim's foundational stages using classical texts, a fourteen-verse condensed prayer, and contemplative practices refined over centuries. Each session is designed to be studied, sat with, and returned to — not just consumed.
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapters 1-3 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 1-15. PDF provided
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapter 4. pg. 99-110 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 16-34. PDF provided
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapter 4. pg. 110-119 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 35-39. PDF provided
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapter 4. pg. 119-123 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 40-47. PDF provided
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapters 5 & 6 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 48-63. PDF provided
Reading: Neale, M. (2018). Gradual Awakening. Chapters 7 & 8 Zopa, T. Lam Rim: Graduate Path to Enlightenment, pg. 64-89. PDF provided
Dr. Miles Neale guides each session through teaching, personal stories, and real-world application drawn from Tibetan Buddhist psychology.
Each week includes contemplative practices designed to be sat with, returned to, and integrated into daily life, not just studied.
Sessions are anchored in Je Tsongkhapa's 14th-century prayer Foundation of All Good Qualities, supplemented by Geshe Tenzin Zopa's commentary.
No prior experience needed. This pilgrimage meets you where you are, whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned practitioner.
Written as the definitive companion to this course, Gradual Awakening translates the ancient Lamrim teachings into a language modern seekers can actually use. Where the course gives you the living transmission — the teachings, the meditations, the lineage — the book gives you the map to return to again and again.
Each week of the course draws directly from its pages. Weeks 1 through 6 correspond to chapters that walk you through the same stages of the path — from understanding mentorship and the preciousness of human life, through karma, refuge, and self-care, all the way to love, compassion, and the nature of wisdom itself.
It is not required reading — but students who engage with both find the teachings go significantly deeper.
The book is the map. The course is the journey.
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Dr. Miles Neale is a psychotherapist, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Gradual Path for inner and outer journeys, author of Return with Elixir and Gradual Awakening, and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy. He leads pilgrimages around the world and is based in Bali, Indonesia.
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