by staff2080 | Mar 5, 2021
This retreat is open to all, including those new to retreat or to Cloud Mountain. Often we talk about our everyday difficulties as the problems and limitations to awakening. We wait until we are able to go on retreat to surrender and connect to a deeper stillness...
by staff2080 | Mar 2, 2021
In this teaching you will learn 4 meditation practices rooted in tradition and confirmed by neuroscience. One day is spent on each practice. This allows you to experience the meditation’s purpose, what it does to your consciousness, and how it supports awakening in...
by staff2080 | Mar 1, 2021
The four Vipallasa or distortions are: • seeing what is impermanent as permanent, • seeing what is painful as pleasant, • seeing what is without a self as a self, and • seeing what is not beautiful as beautiful. This is a concise framework identifying the ways in...
by staff2080 | Mar 1, 2021
As human beings, we all develop “identity view” – a sense of self. The Buddha helps us see that conditioned things, such as the body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and whatever is seen, heard, thought, known, sought, and explored by the...
by staff2080 | Feb 11, 2021
In concentration and serenity (Samatha) meditation, we return our awareness to one object of meditation to the exclusion of everything else, thereby collecting and unifying the mind stream. This practice counteracts the overstimulation of today’s world, reflected in...
