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Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

In these overwhelming times, let’s deepen refuge, as well as reconnect with community and our shared roots within the sacred web of life. This will be a time of contemplation and remembrance as we journey through the grief of so much loss and the hope of the human spirit, offering thanks for the beauty of this world.

Within contemplative quietude, supported by calm and insight meditation in a mindful, gentle retreat container, we will draw from teachings and practices that enable timelessness and openings into the heart medicine of love and compassion.

The retreat will source from a synthesis of the Theravada Elder’s Way and Mahayana practices and teachings around Quan Yin’s compassionate Bodhisattva Path. This includes mantras, chanting, and ceremony. The retreat concludes with a Quan Yin Compassion Ceremony.

In addition to Dharma talks, meditation instructions, and daily yoga sessions, there will be small group meetings with the teachers.

2021-11-19 (10 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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2021-11-25 There Are No Footprints In The Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:52
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Contemplation of form & emptiness. Everything is sacred. Emptiness facilitates resonant response. Undivided non-dual nature of reality.

2021-11-25 The Power of Dharma in Groundless Times. 53:04
Thanissara	Download Listen
The danger and opportunity in the dying of an old world. The curriculum of decolonizing internally & externally. The reclamation of an ensouled world. Dharma practice as essential for navigating the shifts of consciousness needed for radical re-orientation within a moment of evolutionary potential.

2021-11-26 Transforming Unwholesome Karma Through Compassion 45:23
Thanissara	Download Listen
The mutability of karma. An act of beauty in a war zone. Moments of connection with wildlife. Compassion meditation for ancestors, those in our near relational field, future generations, and all beings.

2021-11-26 Holding Our Suffering: Turning to the Sacred, Turning to the Collective (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:45
Dawn Mauricio	Download Listen
The state of the world is getting more intense, more extreme, more divided. It is undeniable that we need to do things differently, including thinking we can do it all on our own.

2021-11-27 Lovingkindness Practice 29:38
Dawn Mauricio	Download Listen

2021-11-27 Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:02
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony

2021-11-27 Reflections on the path of practice, Karma and Equanimity 50:47
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
on the last night of the retreat we reflected on the path of practice, the fruits that spontaneously emerge from practice, how are actions of body speech and mind, the Buddha called karma, influences everything. the talk ends with some reflections on equanimity and the skillful work we can do to balance our practice with where we are in terms of the three marks of existence.

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