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Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories 4

REGISTER: Now — Feb 8, 2025
COURSE DATES: Feb 8 — April 12, 2025
This is a NEW BODHI COURSE!

The Buddha’s teaching skill shines through the wide range of examples and similes that he used to convey subtle points of instruction. His teachings are peppered with images of mountains, rivers, oceans, sun […]

Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories 42024-11-11T20:02:35-08:00

Concentration, Jhana, and Breath: Retreat in Northern California

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RETREAT: MAY 7 – 17, 2024

This retreat will utilize the breath as the primary meditation object and will encourage the development of meditative skills that lead to deep concentration (samadhi) and insight (vipassana). Daily group instructions will focus on the sixteen steps in the Anapanasati Sutta as a route […]

Concentration, Jhana, and Breath: Retreat in Northern California2024-05-01T10:19:47-07:00

Living Without Enemies: An Online Study Weekend Retreat

REGISTER: Now – Jun 25
RETREAT: Jun 28 – 30, 2024

The Buddha said, “The world may quarrel with me, but I do not quarrel with the world.” How can we live our lives without hate—without making anyone into an enemy?

This program will use both sutta study and meditation practice to explore […]

Living Without Enemies: An Online Study Weekend Retreat2024-07-01T11:17:55-07:00

Stages of Insight: An Online Weekend Retreat

REGISTER: Now – Nov 9, 2023
RETREAT: November 10 – 12, 2023

This at-home online weekend retreat will explore the traditional map of Buddhist insight meditation practice known as the Sixteen Insight Knowledges. We will see how contemplating experience as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self develops through a series of knowledges that culminate […]

Stages of Insight: An Online Weekend Retreat2023-11-11T09:35:09-08:00

Mindfulness of Death: An Online Weekend Retreat

REGISTER: Now – October 6
RETREAT: October 7 – 9, 2022

Online weekend retreat with Shaila Catherine is hosted by the Dharma Zephyr Sangha in Nevada. All are welcome.

“Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.”
– Anguttara […]

Mindfulness of Death: An Online Weekend Retreat2023-06-30T13:44:25-07:00

Nourishing Seven Factors of Awakening: An Online Weekend Retreat

REGISTER: Now – Jan 11, 2023
RETREAT: Jan 13 – 15, 2023

This at-home online  weekend retreat will nourish seven qualities that prepare the mind for awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. These Seven Awakening Factors mature into a bright, balanced, and peaceful mind that is imbued with […]

Nourishing Seven Factors of Awakening: An Online Weekend Retreat2023-01-27T21:50:31-08:00

Beyond Distraction: 10-night Retreat in Georgia

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RETREAT: August 29 – September 8, 2022

Mental restlessness is an insidious and pervasive hindrance that most practitioners struggle to overcome. We can refine our skills for working with the modes of thinking that distract us from being mindful: critical thoughts, planning, worrying, lustful thoughts, judging, memories, internal commentaries, to […]
Beyond Distraction: 10-night Retreat in Georgia2022-10-04T21:51:12-07:00
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