This year’s retreat in Mar De Jade, Mexico was in May. The weather was very nice, it was cool in the morning and night. Guo Yuan Fashi with Chang Xing Fashi as his
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Mexico Retreat – May 11-18, 2019
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Working Meditation – April 27-28, 2019
Originating from traditional monastery life, working meditation incorporates environmental cleanup into the practice. It expects us to work efficiently and in a relaxed manner, without anxiety and stress, and thus aims to involve
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Winter Monastic Retreat 2019
By Chang Hu Fashi On June 5, 2005, the concluding day of a ten-day silent illumination retreat at the Dharma Drum Retreat Center (DDRC), Master Sheng Yen in his Dharma talk suggested that
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Abbot Guo Yuan at Columbia University
Abbot Guo Yuan will lead an event at Columbia University on October 20, 2018. Activities include: Relaxation and mindfulness guidance Introduction of basic Chan concepts Meditation on listening to sound Tea meditation The
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Abbot Guo Yuan Leads Huatou Retreat in Mexico
At the invitation of Laura Del Valle (owner and founder of Mar de Jade, a retreat center in Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico) Venerable Guo Yuan, one of the Dharma heirs of Venerable Master Sheng
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Retreat Monitor: Hitting the Morning Boards
Instructions on how to hit the morning boards on retreat.
Retreat Monitor: Hitting the Morning Boards
Buddhists Supporting March for Our Lives
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the March for Our Lives in Washington, a student-led rally calling for tighter gun control laws in the US following a massacre at a
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Buddhist Action: Morals, Vision and Justice
Dharma Drum teacher Rebecca Li addressed a gathering of 200 Buddhists at the Union Theological Seminary on February 3 at a one-day conference, “Buddhist Action: Morals, Vision and Justice,” along with Greg Snyder
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Investigating Huatou
A talk on the huatou method of Chan meditation.