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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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 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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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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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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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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Guo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu), a longtime student of the late Master Sheng Yen, will lead a silent illumination intensive retreat at DDRC October 21-29, 2017. In this online article from Lion’s Roar
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Beginner’s Mind Retreat (August 11-13, 2017) Now Open A “beginner’s mind” is a mind open to experiencing life in the present moment, free from preconceived notions and expectations — a mind open to
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Stand Against Suffering: An Unprecedented Call to Action by Buddhist Teachers BY BHIKKHU BODHI, NORMAN FISCHER, JOAN HALIFAX, MUSHIM PATRICIA IKEDA, JACK KORNFIELD, ETHAN NICHTERN, ROSHI PAT ENKYO O’HARA, LAMA ROD OWENS, GREG
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DDRC welcomes you to our new website. Please explore and let us know what you think of the new WordPress design. We migrated our existing retreat registration system to this new environment: your
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Our Abbot Guo Yuan Fashi will be traveling for the next few months. His trip will begin with a pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India, an all-monastic affair organized by Dharma Drum Mountain.
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Rebecca Li of Dharma Drum Retreat Center was invited again to speak at the 3rd Buddhism and Race Conference hosted by the Harvard Buddhist Community of Harvard Divinity School on March 3-5, 2017.
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Starting this year, DDRC is participating in the Hemara Foundation’s program Tending Space Fellowships for Artists (TSF). This program offers financial aid for artists to attend meditation retreats. DDRC will continue to participate in Hemera’s
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Dharma Drum is represented (by Rebecca Li) on the cover of Lion’s Roar, one of the major Buddhist magazines in the English-speaking world (previously known as Shambhala Sun). In this premiere issue of
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Last year DDRC received a grant from the Hemera Foundation as part of their Contemplative Fellowships for Educators (CFE) program. This program offers financial aid to people working in the field of education,
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From June 6 to 10, 2015, DDRC hosted a gathering of Gen X Dharma teachers. The Winter 2016 issue of BuddhaDharma magazine has article about it, here is an excerpt: Forum: The Road
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Rebecca Li leads an online retreat at tricycle.org. Titled Living the Platform Sutra, the retreat is in four parts: Learn To Look Inside How The Practice Can Go Wrong Bring Practice into Daily
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