The North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center provides a safe and supportive environment for learning and practicing meditation and the dharma on the North Shore and in the surrounding Chicago area. Under the guidance of resident teacher Carl Jerome, the Center offers beginner and advanced meditation and dharma classes, retreats, and special events, as well as wellness classes for those seeking to relieve their anxiety, stress and post-traumatic stress, depression, and other mental health challenges.
Please help us to continue our meditation and dharma individual and group sessions with a donation.

​You can donate with Venmo @northshoremeditation, or Paypal.
It is only because of your generosity that we are able to continue to be beneficial to those seeking more peaceful lives through mindfulness, meditation, and the study of Buddhist texts.
ANNOUNCING
​​WWW.DEEPDHARMA.ORG
An in-depth website produced by
Carl Jerome and Andrew Cohen
that examines Key Buddhist Philosophy, Doctrines, and Ideas

Explore Ancient Texts and Modern Practice Commentaries. 
Read In-depth Notes on Key Buddhist Beliefs and Doctrines.
Listen to Songs, Read Poetry, Laugh at Cartoons.

From the Deep Dharma website:
"Here you’ll find practical information and suggestions that are deep, fearless, confrontational, and possibly funny. Our aim is to provide practical tools for living happier, healthier lives, and for making our families, communities, and the planet safer and more peaceful."

For information about online meetings and classes,

send a note using the CONTACT FORM

or contact Carl at info@deepdharma.org.

Use the form on the CONTACT PAGE to subscribe
to the Center's weekly email newsletter.

Here you'll keep up to date
​on current activities, events, resources and teachings.
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​Carl Jerome, currently teaches online and in-person meditation and the dharma in Highland Park at the North Shore Meditation & Dharma Center, which he founded fifteen years ago. He also teaches at The International Buddhism Friendship Association, a Buddhist Temple in Chicago’s Chinatown. 

Carl has practiced meditation for much of his adult life and Buddhism for the past thirty years. His formal practice began in San Francisco under Zen Master Zenshin Philip Whalen Roshi, and fifteen years ago he became a student of Master Ji Ru, abbot of the Mid-America Buddhist Association (MABA), from whom he formally received lay teaching endorsement.

Carl’s students range in age from teens to octogenarians. Some come seeking wellness or spiritual peace,
others are seeking relief from anxiety, stress, depression, or to improve their mental health.

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