Tame your mind. Open your heart. Serve the world.
Awaken.
Join us and explore ancient Buddhist wisdom and the bodhisattva path in contemporary life.
We integrate both traditional Buddhist methods of study, self-reflection, inquiry and meditation with secular, empirically-based practices of mindfulness, altruism and self-compassion.
Awaken.
Join us and explore ancient Buddhist wisdom and the bodhisattva path in contemporary life.
We integrate both traditional Buddhist methods of study, self-reflection, inquiry and meditation with secular, empirically-based practices of mindfulness, altruism and self-compassion.
Everyone is welcome!
All that's required is your wise and open heart.
For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, may I too abide to dispel the miseries of the world.
—Shantideva
All that's required is your wise and open heart.
For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, may I too abide to dispel the miseries of the world.
—Shantideva
Upcoming Special Events
Wed. Nov. 18th, 7:00-8:30
Practice and Dharma Talk with Visiting Author and Buddhist Teacher Pam Weiss. Pam will offer a talk based on her new book, "A Bigger Sky. Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism." Learn more. |
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Wed. Dec. 2nd, 7:00-9:00
Guided Meditation followed by a Live-Streamed Dharma Talk by Visiting Teacher Dr. Paul Condon. Dr. Condon will offer an evening of guided meditation practice and a Dharma talk entitled: “Adapting relational, refuge style practices for modern Buddhists.” Learn more |
Practices & Dharma Talks now online
Our welcoming center of spiritual refuge for all has temporarily moved online.
Yes, we will continue to "Zoom" at least through the month of September.
We're grateful to be working in partnership with the Church on re-opening plans for our Dharma Center. We will resume in-person practices, once it's safe and sensible for visitors, sangha members and volunteers. With palms together we look forward to your presence on Zoom until we can be together at the center.
Join us for Wednesday and Saturday practices and Dharma talks, now held through Zoom.
Wednesdays, from 7:00-9:00 pm or Saturdays from 10:00-11:30 am.
Join a Zoom Practice (Effective 6/25/2020, this NEW LINK keeps us current with Zoom security.)
Get more details. • Get meeting ID/Password to call in by phone • Learn to use Zoom or request support from us. • Get a link to cut and paste if the link above doesn't work.
Many of our 2020 events and programs have been postponed although we are continually adding guest teachers and speakers to our Wednesday evening practices online. We do encourage you to sign-up for our newsletter and check out our practice calendar, facebook and meetup for new announcements.
Join us for Wednesday and Saturday practices and Dharma talks, now held through Zoom.
Wednesdays, from 7:00-9:00 pm or Saturdays from 10:00-11:30 am.
Join a Zoom Practice (Effective 6/25/2020, this NEW LINK keeps us current with Zoom security.)
Get more details. • Get meeting ID/Password to call in by phone • Learn to use Zoom or request support from us. • Get a link to cut and paste if the link above doesn't work.
Many of our 2020 events and programs have been postponed although we are continually adding guest teachers and speakers to our Wednesday evening practices online. We do encourage you to sign-up for our newsletter and check out our practice calendar, facebook and meetup for new announcements.
Dharma Refuge
2020 Capacity-Building Capital Campaign
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Dharma Refuge is in the midst of its first ever Capacity-Building Capital Campaign.
Our goal is to shift from being an all-volunteer organization to hiring a half-time Meditation Center Administrator early in 2020. Beginning in 2021 we also hope to begin paying a salary to our teacher, who has served on a voluntary basis since 2005. |
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Dharma Refuge Statement of Solidarity.
WE AFFIRM THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER.
We vow to not be silent, for silence is complicity.
We vow to take wise action, for inaction continues unconscious privilege.
We aspire to follow the lead of our brothers and sisters of color and engage the work of exposing the deeply rooted conditioning of white supremacy and the structures of power and privilege that maintain it.
Our spirituality is one that begins with the heartfelt wish to do no harm. It expands into the path of the Bodhisattva, who upon hearing the cries of the world burns with love and a wish to respond. We enact our wish that all beings be free of injustice and the suffering that follows it when we courageously recognize, confront, and uproot all that is not love.
Read our full statement.
We vow to take wise action, for inaction continues unconscious privilege.
We aspire to follow the lead of our brothers and sisters of color and engage the work of exposing the deeply rooted conditioning of white supremacy and the structures of power and privilege that maintain it.
Our spirituality is one that begins with the heartfelt wish to do no harm. It expands into the path of the Bodhisattva, who upon hearing the cries of the world burns with love and a wish to respond. We enact our wish that all beings be free of injustice and the suffering that follows it when we courageously recognize, confront, and uproot all that is not love.
Read our full statement.
Recent Dharma Talk |
.Get to know our local teacher, Sue Kochan, through a recent Dharma Teaching (12-12-2019/ An Invitation to Pilgrimage) given at Dharma Refuge.
(For access to a video archive of teachings by Sue, consider becoming a Sustaining Member of Dharma Refuge. |
Mission, Vision, MembershipOur TeachersWe study and practice under the guidance of teacher and spiritual director Sue Kochan and visiting teacher Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel and our root teacher Anam Thubten Rinpoche, whose lineage and vision inspired the founding of our community.
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Buddhist ResourcesCheck out our recommended Dharma books, publications, affiliated centers and online resources for Dharma as well as secular mindfulness and mindful self-compassion.
A welcoming spaceOur practices, classes and retreats welcome everyone into a safe, non-dogmatic sacred space to explore the teachings of the Buddha and to experience the refuge within, our own awakened nature.
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Thanks to our sangha photographers who have so generously contributed their time, talents and photographs to Dharma Refuge! Bowing to: Carole Diamond, Michael Guida, Dave King, Sue Kochan, Judy Lombard of Bits and Peaces Photography, Ivan Ramos, Deb Pierce, Julie Gelfand and Steve Piper of GelfandPiper Photography
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