March 2019
Insight Meditation Retreat
A Ten-Day Meditation Retreat | March 15-24, 2019 Why do we lose bliss? How do we regain it? By popular demand, our founding teachers are offering this ten-day insight meditation retreat. Most think of meditation as a sense of calm and concentration that leads to bliss. Yet, bliss is impermanent and subject to loss. Through training the mind to simply observe what is happening in the moment, we realize that the self is that which searches for bliss, and that…
Find out more »August 2019
Buddhas in Action: Awakening in Daily Life
By learning the principles of karma yoga (awakening through action), you can apply awareness and wisdom to everything you do. Cultivating this practice allows you to transform your work, home and city life into a connective field of monastic or yogic practice. Your home becomes your monastery, while your co-workers become your fellow yogis and yoginis. Our experience shows that blending study, meditation, and what we call “awakening through action”, profoundly integrates spiritual practice with day-to-day demands. Read more on…
Find out more »October 2019
Becoming a Work of Art: Dharma Foundations Retreat
During this retreat, we will study six aspects of consciousness that we may cultivate to become our own inner and outer works of art. These six aspects are called the paramis in Sanskrit, and have been taught in the buddhadharma for more than two thousand years. Read more on the Planet Dharma website now
Find out more »December 2019
Six Yogas of Naropa
Bardo Yoga There are six bardos, yet you only encounter four during your lifetime. Bardo Yoga is the yoga of the intermediate or liminal state. As it includes aspects of illusory body yoga and dream yoga, it’s recommended that participants have done both of those practices. Transference of Consciousness Yoga Transference of Consciousness Yoga practice helps us prepare for when consciousness leaves this organism at the time of death. Practices include dissolving the sufferings of the six realms into a…
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