Sustainable Compassion Training
2021 Winter Practice Program with guest teacher Paul Condon. Settle into the LONG upstate NY winter as we gather together (online) for eight weeks of supported meditation practice that will grow our innate qualities of love, compassion and wisdom. Learn more. Everyone is welcome. No previous meditation experience required. Thursday evenings, 7:00-8:30. Feb. 4-Mar. 25. Registration coming soon. |
Practice Circles
Join a practice circle in the new year! Learn more. We're expanding this program because it's been so well received. Practice Circle participants deepen spiritual practice and connections with other participants from the Dharma Refuge sangha. |
Collaborating with Your Buddha Nature—an online evening retreat to welcome the new year, with Dharma Refuge guiding teacher Sue Kochan.
Wednesday, January 6th, 6:30-9:00 PM. No registration required. Free and open to the public. Learn more. This retreat will be time to renew the life-giving collaboration we call practice. |
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 supporting a half-time Meditation Center Administrator. Beginning in 2021 we also hope to begin paying a salary to our teacher, who has served on a voluntary basis since 2008. |
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 our root teacher Anam Thubten Rinpoche, whose lineage and vision inspired the founding of our community. We also invite guest teachers for special dharma talks and retreats.
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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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