Building Resilience with the Four Brahmaviharas

An essential part of developing resilience is recognizing and strengthening the positive, wholesome qualities in our hearts and minds. It is vital that we cultivate the inner strength and resilience to steady ourselves and remain responsive in the face of the...

Awakening the Heart: An Insight Meditation Retreat

During this five-day retreat, we will gather together to cultivate a deep awareness of ourselves through practicing a steady and compassionate attention. Insight meditation invites us to disengage from our usual enmeshment with thinking and discover an intimacy with...

Cultivating Insight

Insight meditation (vipassana in Pali, the language of the original Buddhist teachings) is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body...
Releasing and Greeting the New Year with Dhamma

Releasing and Greeting the New Year with Dhamma

This retreat observes the annual passage from old year into new within the peace and beauty of Cloud Mountain, a safe refuge, while much of society indulges unhealthy tendencies of excess and stimulation. Dhamma teachings will encourage cultivating mindfulness with...