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 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.
Dharma Refuge is hiring!
We have reached a point in our Capital Campaign where we feel we can begin the hiring process for a part-time paid Meditation Center Administrator. Our advertisement for the position will begin to appear soon on online job boards, and letters about the position are going out to other local Buddhist groups. We welcome internal applicants, as well.
Dharma Refuge
Meditation Center Administrator
Applicants should demonstrate a desire to support a growing not-for-profit
focused on the cultivation of wisdom, compassion and community.
Successful candidates will be highly organized and motivated to independently coordinate the affairs of the meditation center
The candidate should be able to provide management and task-level support, including event-planning, project, and
people-management. Basic business computing experience required. Email marketing, financial software use, and web content management experience a plus.
The work schedule is flexible outside of key events. The Administrator may work remotely or at the center.
This is a 75-85 hour/month contract position, with compensation approximately $1500/month.
See the full Role Description at the bottom right-hand column of our About page.
Email resumes to Ellen Nakhnikian by March 3.
Dharma Refuge
Meditation Center Administrator
Applicants should demonstrate a desire to support a growing not-for-profit
focused on the cultivation of wisdom, compassion and community.
Successful candidates will be highly organized and motivated to independently coordinate the affairs of the meditation center
The candidate should be able to provide management and task-level support, including event-planning, project, and
people-management. Basic business computing experience required. Email marketing, financial software use, and web content management experience a plus.
The work schedule is flexible outside of key events. The Administrator may work remotely or at the center.
This is a 75-85 hour/month contract position, with compensation approximately $1500/month.
See the full Role Description at the bottom right-hand column of our About page.
Email resumes to Ellen Nakhnikian by March 3.
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. |
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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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