Tame your mind. Open your heart. ​Serve the world.
​Awaken.
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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

Dharma Refuge 2020 Capital Campaign

Dharma Refuge is in the midst of its first-ever 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.

Upcoming Events

Meditation Practice Labs
2020 Meditation Lab Schedule. 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.
Joy of Living Book Study
Dharma Refuge has selected this book for study because it conveys, with great clarity, the transformative practice of Open Awareness, the primary meditation technique in our tradition. ​Learn more about this monthly Wednesday night program.

Teacher and author, Yongey Mingyur weaves together the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, and quantum physics in a way that will forever change the way we understand the human experience and the unlimited potential of our own minds.

​We welcome your presence!
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Photo courtesy of Michael Guida
The Way of the Bodhisattva, 2020 Retreat Series 

Six Saturday's throughout 2020 we will hold full-day retreats that include silent meditation and a video series of teaching by Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche on this profound text.

The Bodhisattva teachings and practices are profoundly helpful as a way to calm our minds and help us navigate, with greater ease, an unpredictable world. Rinpoche's commentary is designed to help us all enter the transformational path of Bodhisattva training. Join us for any of these retreats. No previous experience is required. 

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, Membership

Our Teachers

We 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 Resources

Check out our recommended Dharma books, publications, affiliated centers and online resources for Dharma as well as secular mindfulness and mindful self-compassion.

A welcoming space

Our 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.

​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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