“Creating Joy In Community,” the first residential retreat for transgender people, welcomes members of the transgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and non-binary community to join together and cultivate “trans joy.”
Andrew Holecek offers some practical advice for anyone considering a long-term retreat.
Many practitioners can’t afford to go on retreats. Pamela Ayo Yetunde says it’s time we start thinking about how to make the practice less exclusive.
Is Buddhism a transcendent path to enlightenment or a practical aid to everyday life? The Way cannot be divided like that, Joan Sutherland tells us. LIke the water system of the high desert, it flows in every direction and is found wherever we decide to tap into it.
This collection of retreat advice and personal stories will help you prepare and be realistic about what to expect on a Buddhist retreat.
It takes courage to undertake a retreat, says Andrew Holecek. But in that container, we find freedom.
Photo by David Gabriel Fischer.Karen Maezen Miller with tips on preparing for a retreat.
A teaching on fear and street retreats by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara.
After soldiering through his grief, Jaimal Yogis sat down, looked at his mind, and let the floodgates open. There were a lot of tears — but who said that’s a bad thing? Fear, sadness, grief, jealousy, and anger are like quicksand: resisting them in a sudden, knee-jerk way can make them much more troublesome. But […]
Bernie Glassman explains how the three tenets of the Zen Peacemakers work to turn confusion into skillful action.
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