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Programs

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  • November 1, 2026
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  • November 7, 2026
  • Bill Morgan, Susan Morgan

The Four Great Endeavors: An Online Householder Retreat

  • Bring practice into daily life with this online householder retreat. Explore compassion and the Four Great Endeavors while bookending each day with meditation, reflection, and supportive community.
  • Online
  • December 7, 2026
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  • December 7, 2026
  • Leigh Brasington, Heather Sundberg

Practicing Jhanas & Emptiness: Surprising Similarities, Distinctive Differences

  • Leigh Brasington and Heather Sundberg explore the surprising connections between jhāna and emptiness-awareness, where they differ, and how jhāna can open new possibilities in emptiness practice.
  • Online
  • December 8, 2026
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  • December 13, 2026
  • Guo Gu

Gateway to Chan Hybrid Retreat

  • This Chan program will deepen your practice through 30-minute sitting meditation periods punctuated by mindful yoga and walking meditation.
  • Hybrid
  • December 31, 2026
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  • January 1, 2027
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Gather in sangha on New Year’s Eve for reflections, encouragement, and guided meditation, bringing your Dharma aspirations forward together as one year closes and another begins.
  • Online
  • January 9, 2027
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  • January 9, 2027
  • Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

The Sensory Basis of Self: Trauma- and Dissociation-Informed Work with the Early Buddhist Teachings

  • Explore how early Buddhist teachings on the senses, mindfulness, and not-self can inform work with trauma and dissociation, supporting greater integration, presence, and freedom.
  • Online
  • January 15, 2027
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  • January 20, 2027
  • Bob Stahl, Abraham Dejene

Insight Inside Us: How the Dharma Inspires Mindfulness-Based Approaches – A Hybrid BIPOC Retreat

  • Explore how Insight Meditation and the Dharma inform MBSR and other mindfulness-based approaches, while deepening your own practice through mindfulness, loving-kindness, clarity, and opening the heart.
  • Online
  • February 5, 2027
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  • February 7, 2027
  • Heather Sundberg

MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • Explore MahaSati practices from the Southern Thai forest tradition, cultivating pure awareness and learning to release reactive patterns through embodiment, concentration, emptiness, and letting go.
  • Online
  • February 20, 2027
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  • February 21, 2027
  • John Makransky

Opening to the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore Tibetan Buddhist practices that open us to unconditional love, compassion, wisdom, and spacious awareness, helping us access the innate qualities of our buddha nature more deeply and inclusively.
  • Online
  • February 21, 2027
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  • April 23, 2027
  • Shaila Catherine

Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories (3)

  • Explore the Buddha’s vivid similes and stories as an accessible path into sutta study, bringing ancient teachings to life through reflection, discussion, meditation, and contemporary practice.
  • Online
  • March 26, 2027
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  • March 31, 2027
  • Guo Gu

Interdependence: Bridging Chinese Huayan Buddhism and Western Buddhist Practice

  • Explore Huayan Buddhism’s profound vision of interdependence through Fazang’s classic teachings, discovering a contemplative tradition that shaped East Asian Buddhism and can deepen and enrich Western Buddhist practice.
  • Hybrid
  • June 18, 2027
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  • June 23, 2027
  • Akincano Weber, Andy Rotman

Making the Most of Suffering: Stories of Failing Forward

  • Explore Buddhist stories of suffering wisely, discovering how courage, skill, and perseverance can open unexpected possibilities for growth, insight, joy, and freedom amid life’s hardship and loss.
  • Hybrid
  • August 27, 2027
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  • September 5, 2027
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness (Hybrid)

  • Explore the Nine Bodies of Consciousness through guided Insight Meditation, using felt sense to move from physical to subtler levels of awareness, steady the mind, and support liberating insight.
  • Hybrid
  • December 7, 2027
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  • December 12, 2027
  • Guo Gu

The Practice of Wonderment: An Exploration into the Chan Method of Huatou

  • Explore the Chan practice of huatou through paradox and unanswerable questions, cultivating wonderment, embodying not-knowing, and opening a fresh approach to wisdom, compassion, and freedom from self.
  • Hybrid