by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
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...
by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
This retreat is an invitation to let go of the many distractions of the world and fully arrive into our body and breath, with presence and kindfulness. Allowing the turbulence of the mind to settle, we can access the natural wisdom and warm heartedness that are part...
by staff2080 | Oct 14, 2024
The Seven Factors of Awakening are at the heart of Buddhist practice. By cultivating mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, collectedness and equanimity, we are strengthening the innate qualities that lead to a blossoming of our natural potential....
by staff2080 | Oct 1, 2024
In Buddhist psychology, the five aggregates (khandas) form the nexus of identity and clinging. By fully understanding form (rūpa), feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), mental formations (saṅkhāra), and consciousness (viññāṇa), we can transform them from sources of...
by staff2080 | Aug 16, 2024
Come join us for a weekend of projecting at Cloud Mountain! This is offered as a time to come together as a sangha in a relaxed and informal environment of work and fun to take on a variety of projects to spruce up and perfect the retreat center. We’ll have...
