nico hase lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time. He serves as guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging, teaches online and in-person retreats, and speaks with students in one-on-one sessions. He and his partner devon are the authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess (2020) and This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership (2026). Find out more at www.devonandnicohase.com
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Recent Articles
Satipatthana and the Field of Relationship
Most practitioners, says nico hase, understand the Buddha's Satipatthana Sutta as a framework for individual practice. But the instructions are more layered than that. The Buddha directs attention internally, externally, and both internally and externally. That third mode is almost never emphasized in contemporary teaching — and it maps uncannily onto the actual work of relationship.
Death and the Practice of Love
Dharma teacher and author nico hase on how death contemplation can transform the everyday frictions of partnership into a field for practicing impermanence.