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 Events
Meditation Practice Labs for Beginners
Learn Buddhist meditation fundamentals, popularized as mindfulness, in a relaxed and interactive environment that emphasizes direct experience.
Labs will focus on establishing concentration to calm the mind. Instruction will be informed by neuroscience, vipassana (insight), compassion, and mindful self-compassion practices. Learn more and register. |
2019 Full Days of Sitting
There will be full days of silent practice offered on Saturday's throughout 2018. See our all-day sitting schedule. We welcome your presence.
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Bodhisattva Practice Retreats
2019 Schedule Announced. Join us for a this Mahayana series of retreats introducing the profound and transformative path of the bodhisattva. Led by Sue Kochan and utilizing a pre-recorded program of study with Pema Chodron, How to Live with Compassion and Courage.
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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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Thanks and Giving | Special Teaching for the Holiday Season (11/21/2018)
Follow this link to a FaceBook Livestream video Sue offered on Thanksgiving Eve this year. We are invited to look deeply into what both "thanks" and "giving" mean for us, and to explore a deeper relationship with those practices in our lives, especially during this season of giving and receiving.
Meet our local teacher, Sue Kochan |
Get to know our local teacher, Sue Kochan, through a recent Dharma Teaching (8/8/18) given at the Dharma Refuge Practice Center. (For access to a video archive of teachings by Sue, consider becoming a Sustaining Member of Dharma Refuge.) |
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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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