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Welcome dear yogis! Following is the upcoming Spring/Summer listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE OF “ANNICCA”, THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE ETERNALLY SHIFTING AND UNFORESEEABLE FACTORS OF LIFE ON EARTH. Registration is required. You may register anytime, friends…though my response may be somewhat delayed… Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of these...

Dharma Days are a one-day opportunity, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to take a personal tour in the Theravadan Vipassana meditation traditional practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge...

Sunday, June 22, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. This retreat will have a special focus on nature. (See above for fuller description of Dharma Day.) All Dharma Days are suitable for oldies and for newcomers…since we all need to arrive with “beginner’s mind,” anyhow. No charge for this day, in the ancient Buddhist tradition. Dana/donations are accepted, however. Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of...

July 12 -13, 2025 Begins Saturday morning, 10 a.m., and ends Sunday 3 p.m. Email to Register

Saturday, July 26, 2025 (10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session**Eating (lunchtime will be `silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except...

Saturday, September 6, 2024 (10 am – 4 pm) Dharma Days are an opportunity to take a personal tour of the Theravadan Vipassana meditation (traditionally practiced in SE Asia and in the West) practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement...

September 19 – 21, 2025 Starts with supper on Friday evening, 6:00 pm, and ends at 4 pm on Sunday. Email to Register

Greetings from Battambong, Cambodia, dears. My balcony looks down on Klong 2.0, here in the marketplace. Life happens three stories down below. It’s relatively quiet and breezy up here. And why are the monks carrying umbrellas, you may wonder? Temperatures are often in the high 90’s, approaching 100 degrees. My shoulders, knees and midriff remain covered, however, like the local Khmer women, when I’m out in public. In my sixty years...

This newsletter from Joy comes after several days at the south campus of SDS, a three-hour drive from Bangkok. To Read/Download the full newsletter #8 (pdf) Click Here hanging out with my tribe of Karin teenagers, the fifteen local village kids who chose to come live here several years ago When I indicated that I wanted to help plant the cosmos, for example, they quickly: *dug the holes *piled up dirt all around the holes *placed the...

In this newsletter #7, read about Joy’s thoughts on Annica & Annatta, Kidde Cafe, Sports Day, and Green Tara … Click to open/download pdf

Hello again, dear readers. Many of you are experiencing sub-zero temperatures up north, with blizzards. I wonder whether it is a form of cruelty to send these photos to your side of the world… although some of you are delighted with the snow, the quiet, the mysterious frost etchings on your window panes. I spent many wonderful winters in Montana and Wisconsin. I remember the gifts of splitting wood, stoking the stove,...