Programs

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  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 9, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington

What Do the Suttas Actually Say about the Brahma Viharas?

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings on Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. Through sutta study and cross-tradition insights, deepen your understanding and practice of these four sublime abodes.
  • Online
  • November 14, 2025
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  • November 18, 2025
  • Ruth Ozeki

To Study the Self: Zen and the Art of Creative Writing

  • Explore writing as contemplative practice. Using Dogen’s Zen wisdom, we’ll study and forget the self, play with genre, and let the world speak through us—one word, one breath at a time.
  • Residential
  • November 15, 2025
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  • November 16, 2025
  • John Makransky

Being Harmonized with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Discover your innate buddha nature in this retreat, exploring three Tibetan Buddhist practices that open the heart and mind to love, wisdom, and compassion. Includes guided meditations, Q&A, and discussion.
  • Online
  • November 20, 2025
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  • November 23, 2025
  • Dhammadīpā

Seeing Yourself on the Path: Exploring Buddhist Art and the Art of Seeing

  • Engage with a variety of Buddhist artistic expressions in visual and tactile ways, and reflect on how these portrayals relate to what you have experienced on the Path.
  • Residential
  • December 2, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Embodying Mindfulness

  • Explore grounding into the body to support practice, working with and mindfully inhabiting this unique body.
  • Residential
  • December 8, 2025
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  • December 14, 2025
  • GuoGu

Silent Illumination and Investigating a Critical Phrase: A Chan Retreat (Hybrid)

  • Deepen your practice in this Chan-style retreat, engaging in a sustained, focused way within a protected environment with a teacher.
  • Hybrid
  • December 31, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Please join us for the fourth annual New Year's Eve sit! Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together!
  • Online

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

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