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
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. |
Practices & Dharma Talks now online
Our welcoming center of spiritual refuge for all has temporarily moved online.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 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. |
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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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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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