CANCELED

This retreat has been canceled due to health challenges.      

Awareness, Wisdom, and the Release of the Heart

Awareness is the natural capacity of the mind, it simply recognizes the present moment. During this retreat we will cultivate a wise and relaxed interest in awareness as it recognizes that experience is being known. It is awareness that illuminates the underlying...

Letting It All Go

Many of us have encountered statues or images of Budai, a Buddhist monk, generally depicted as a happy, pot-bellied monk carrying a large cloth sack. Once Budai was stopped on the street by another monk, who questioned him regarding the fundamental meaning of the...

Freedom Through Unbinding

One of the central concepts to the Buddha’s teaching was that of the five khandhas, usually translated into English as “five aggregates” of form, feeling-tone, conceptualization, impulse and consciousness. With correct practice, the five aggregates can...

Supported self-retreat, lightly guided by Jason Bartlett

The format of this supported self-retreat offers a spacious, largely unstructured daily schedule to allow participants to guide their own practice. In order to help make this the most productive period of practice possible, each participant will meet with Jason early...