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
Dharma Refuge
2020 Capacity-Building Capital Campaign
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.
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
Dharma Refuge goes online!
Like many other organizations Dharma Refuge is moving our practice online until we can once again meet at the Dharma Center. We hope that you are able to join us for our typical Wednesday or Saturday practice session. This is a new way for the members of Dharma Refuge to share our practice together and just connect again with our friends in the sangha. It provides an outlet for that social connection that we all crave in these times of uncertainty.
We also invite anyone who is new to Dharma Refuge, or to meditation, to join us via Zoom. Our mission is to be a welcoming center of spiritual refuge for all, where the ancient wisdom of the Buddha comes alive in modern life through teachings, inquiry, practice, and the warmth of community.
Wednesdays, from 7:00-9:00 pm Click to join Zoom Practice
Join us on 4/8 for our usual Wednesday practice, followed by a facilitated discussion with the sangha or a recorded Dharma talk.
Saturdays from 10:00-11:30 am Click to join Zoom Practice
Join us on 4/11 for our usual Saturday practice. Two sittings with a 10 minute break in between.
If the links above do not take you to our Zoom Practice Session, cut and paste the link below into your browser search bar to join either practice:
https://zoom.us/j/3448958737?pwd=aXAwNEFjZUJ0TGhxejN0dFAwKytLdz09
(Zoom's recent updates now require a password for ALL online video conferences. The Password is built into these links. If you join using this link, you will not need to enter the password separately. )
You can find and download the Dharma Refuge Chant Sheet here.
We’re using an online platform called Zoom. If you are new to Zoom, plan to click on the link at least 15 minutes before the practice begins, as you may need to download the free application. You can also watch a brief video tutorial from Zoom here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting-. Zoom is free to use and many people have already experienced attending remote sessions using Zoom.
We recognize that this will be a new way of experiencing our time together as a sangha. There will be some learning as we try out this new platform. We won’t be able to supply tech support, but, if you join early, you can check out your audio and video connection.
Anyone who is hesitant to try the practices via Zoom can email Kathryn Fiske who will be happy to do a one on one Zoom meeting with you to help you "work out the kinks".
All special events are postponed until further notice.
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. Postponed until further notice. |
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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 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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