Finding Immediate Access to Innate Capacities of Love, Compassion, and Wisdom

In this retreat, we will connect directly to the power of love and wisdom, which penetrate limiting images of self and others by sensing them all in their deep dignity and lovability. On that basis, we will cultivate sustainable, responsive, and active compassion, which can heal, transform and liberate causes of suffering without devolving into empathic distress or burnout. Equanimity, sympathetic joy, devotion to the deep dignity and potential of beings, and other qualities of awakening will all be freshly accessed. This retreat is both for Buddhists who wish to deepen their experience of these innate qualities of awakening, and for people of all faiths and backgrounds who seek an accessible way to cultivate powerful love and compassion for action that is replenishing and sustaining. Guided meditations, explanation of key concepts, and discussion with participants to clarify and support practice.

Materials Needed: Participants: Please read Lama John’s “Awakening Through Love” in preparation for the retreat.