Calendar
September, 2024
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, September 25 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Sylvia Boorstein
October, 2024
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, October 2 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Sylvia Boorstein
November, 2024
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, November 6 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Retreat | Online Non-Residential
November 23 - November 24, 2024 | Saturday - Sunday | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Hidden in Full View: The Shared Heart of Spiritual Teachings and Practices
In stating “My religion is kindness,” the Dalai Lama highlighted universal principles of ethics, wisdom, and goodness that transcend any particular religion. Throughout this retreat, we’ll combine Buddhist teachings and practices to develop wisdom, ethics, and the awakened heart with various perspectives from other spiritual traditions. In doing so, we’ll connect with universal principles that can be expressed in ordinary, everyday language. Our time together will include meditation, talks and dialogue between Donald and Sylvia, and small- and large-group discussions.
December, 2024
Retreat | On-Land
December 8 - December 18, 2024 | Sunday - Wednesday | 10 nights
Meeting the Three Characteristics through Cultivating Stability, Well-being, and Confidence
Spaces Available. In this retreat, we tend to the three qualities of stability, well-being, and confidence, all of which support insight into the three characteristics of existence. Then we explore and befriend these characteristics—namely, aniccā (impermanence, inconstancy), dukkha (stress, unsatisfactoriness, suffering) and anattā (not-self, impersonality, ungovernability)—in our own lived experience. When we understand and make peace with these characteristics, we have more ease, compassion, and freedom in our lives, and we can be of more benefit to ourselves, others, and the world.
January, 2025
Retreat | On-Land
January 10 - January 17, 2025 | Friday - Friday | 7 nights
Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart -
Registration Open - September 10. Mettā, or lovingkindness, practice is the cultivation of the intention of benevolence as the orientation of our heart and mind. It is also a path to wisdom. We develop our capacity for mettā through meditation in order for it to manifest in our daily lives. Mettā practice strengthens self-confidence, self-acceptance, and steadiness of mind and heart, revealing our fundamental disposition toward kindness. We’ll be joined on one day of the retreat by Sylvia Boorstein, a beloved long-time teacher of mettā.
Donald Rothberg
Gullu Singh
Beth Sternlieb
Diana Winston
Sylvia Boorstein
Jonathan Relucio