COURSE

The Six Hungers

Every human being is hungry. Not only for food, money, love, or success, but for ground, aliveness, dignity, belonging, healing, and a way to give something back to life. In The Six Hungers, Juan Vega guides you through an original Dharma framework for understanding human need, craving, attachment, and freedom. These six lessons blend Buddhist wisdom, mindfulness, lived experience, and body-based reflection for people practicing in real life: tired minds, uncertain seasons, complicated relationships, and hearts trying to heal without pretending everything is fine. You will learn how safety can become control, aliveness can become noise, mattering can become performance, belonging can become clinging, and healing can become another fight against yourself. Then you will learn the open hand. This course is for anyone who wants to understand what they keep reaching for, meet their hunger with compassion, and take one honest step toward freedom.

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Meet your Teacher

Juan Vega (Monk Mode Society)

Hancock, WI 54943, USA

Juan Vega is a U.S. Army veteran, father, artist, and Dharma teacher whose work blends Buddhist wisdom, mindfulness practice, lived experience, and grounded reflection for real life. His teachings are shaped by years of personal practice, study of the Dharma, recovery, service, and the everyday challenges of rebuilding a meaningful life through uncertainty. In The Six Hungers, Juan offers an original teaching framework on human need, craving, attachment, healing, and freedom. His approach is warm, direct, trauma-aware, and practical, helping students meet their inner life with honesty, compassion, and one clear next step.

6 Days

45 students

5.0 stars

14 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

Every Human Being Is Hungry

In this opening lesson, Juan Vega introduces the foundation of The Six Hungers: the difference between human need, hunger, craving, and clinging. Through ordinary real-life moments, this teaching looks beneath what we reach for and asks what we are really trying to feed. Money, love, success, attention, comfort, and control may all carry a deeper promise. Students are introduced to the closed fist and the open hand, then guided through the Hunger Ledger practice: what I reach for, what it promises, what it costs, and what truly feeds me.

Lesson 2

Ground: When Safety Becomes a Cage

In this lesson, Juan Vega explores the hunger for Ground: the need for safety, stability, and something solid to trust when life feels uncertain. This teaching looks at what fear does after the ground moves. It shows how wise planning can turn into control, how the future can get louder than the present, and how we can lose the life in front of us while trying to survive every possible ending. Through Dharma reflection and a simple three-question practice, students learn to separate fact from prediction, loosen the grip of control, and return to one clean next step.

Lesson 3

Aliveness: The Life Beneath the Noise

In this lesson, we explore the hunger for aliveness — the human need to feel awake, connected, and present inside our own life. This teaching looks at the difference between true aliveness and constant stimulation. Through Dharma reflection and a simple full-contact practice, students learn how noise, screens, entertainment, and distraction can imitate life without actually helping us feel present. This lesson invites students to return to one ordinary moment with full attention and rediscover the life already here.

Lesson 4

Matter: Dignity Without an Audience

In this lesson, Juan explores the hunger to matter — the human need to know that our life has value, place, and meaning. This teaching looks at recognition, comparison, unseen labor, and the pain of feeling overlooked. Through Dharma reflection and the practice of one clean gift, students learn how dignity can be witnessed by others without depending on an audience to create it. This lesson invites students to offer something real without abandoning themselves or turning their worth into a performance.

Lesson 5

Belong: The Grip We Call Love

In this lesson, we explore the hunger to belong — the human need for connection, love, family, friendship, and a place where we can finally put the armor down. This teaching looks at the difference between love and clinging. Through Dharma reflection and honest relationship inquiry, students learn how fear can enter love, make us overgive, swallow truth, abandon ourselves, or hold too tightly to a bond. This lesson invites students to love without disappearing, belong without self-abandonment, and meet connection with more truth, courage, and compassion.

Lesson 6

Offer: What Healing Is For

In this final lesson, we bring the six hungers together and explore what healing, growth, and freedom are ultimately for. This teaching looks at the open hand: the moment when we can feel our needs without being ruled by them. Through Dharma reflection and a final integration practice, students revisit ground, aliveness, mattering, belonging, healing, and offering as one human path. This lesson invites students to carry one clean step forward, meet hunger with wisdom, and let their life leave less suffering behind.

5.0 (6)

Recent Reviews

Phil

August 16, 2026

This course was very different from many of the ones that I have experienced here. Addresses craving and wanting in a very straightforward way. The audio production is excellent with rather intense music. That actually works well to drive home the teaching.

Cheryl

August 6, 2026

Wonderful course! My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this together. Thank you very much for your inspirational meditations, so well done. 🙏💕 We will return to listen again.

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