2018 Finding Immediate Access to Innate Capacities of Love, Compassion, and Wisdom

With Lama John Makransky, Bob Morrison and Julie Forsythe

June 16 - 23, 2018

Date and Time Details: Check-in at the Wonderwell is between 3-5pm on the day of arrival. The retreat ends at noon on the final day and a light lunch is offered.

Location: Wonderwell Mountain Refuge

Experience: This retreat is open to beginner and experienced meditators.

  • Private Room w/Queen Bed & Ensuite Bath – $1,638.00
  • Private Room w/Twin Bed & Hall Bath – $1,491.00
  • Shared Room w/Ensuite Bath – $1,134.00
  • Shared Room w/Hall Bath – $1,043.00
  • Women's Dorm – $875.00

In order to keep pricing as low as possible, teacher fees are not included and are encouraged as "Dana" (generous giving), as each participant is moved to do so at the end of retreat.

Registration is open until June 8th.  Please don’t delay!

In this retreat, we will connect directly to innate capacities of love and wisdom in the deep nature of our minds, to cut through our reductive labels of self and others by sensing them in their deep dignity and potential, in their buddha nature. On that basis, we will cultivate compassion and wisdom as a force to heal, transform and liberate causes of suffering, without devolving into empathic distress or burnout.  Equanimity, inner peace, non-conceptual awareness, and other capacities of awakening will also be 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 can be replenishing and sustaining.   Guided meditations, explanation of key concepts, and discussion with participants to clarify and empower practice.

About the Teachers

Lama John Makransky

John Makransky, PhD, is Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, and co-creator of the sustainable compassion training model for drawing on innate capacities of love and awareness.  John's academic writings have focused on connections between practices of wisdom, compassion and […]

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Bob Morrison

Bob Morrison has been a Core Teacher of Natural Dharma Fellowship since its founding in 2009. He has studied and practiced in the Dzogchen/Mahamudra tradition since 1994 with numerous teachers both Tibetan and Western. With Camille Hykes, he co-directs NDF’s Margha Program, which alternates year-long trainings in Natural Meditation and Bodhicitta practices. He is also […]

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Julie Forsythe

Julie is a founding member and associate teacher of the Foundation for Active Compassion with her teaching mentor, Lama John Makransky and Leah Weiss. She has been an active student/practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism (Dzogchen) for the last 13 years. She stems from a rich background in activism based in deep contemplation, coming from the western […]

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