Red Clay Sangha has no guiding teacher and its founding principles include establishing the sangha itself as the primary teacher - supplemented by the individual teachers each of us finds and brings to the sangha, and by the visiting teachers who lead retreats. As one of our founding members said, "I want to sit with my friends".

The importance of sangha guides much of what we do, from the meals we take together after every Sunday and Wednesday activity to the friendships and personal trust that emerge.