Gregory Pai has practiced meditation since the mid-seventies in the Tibetan Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, and Vipassana or Insight Meditation traditions. His teachers include Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Robert Aitken, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Silananda, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Sayadaw U Kundala, and Jon Kabat-Zinn. He has trained at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has also taught meditation at the Hawaii State Hospital, Kahi Mohala, Queens Hospital, as well as to veterans at Tripler Hospital and at the Center for Alternative Medicine of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.