Opening to Awakened Awareness Through Love and Compassion

With Lama John Makransky

December 7 - 9, 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

Address: 253 Philbrick Hill Rd Springfield NH 03284

Contact: retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org

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

  • Private Room w/Queen Bed & Ensuite Bath – $468.00
  • Private Room w/Twin Bed & Hall Bath – $426.00
  • Shared Room w/Ensuite Bath – $324.00
  • Shared Room w/Hall Bath – $298.00
  • Women's Dorm – $250.00

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.

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Join the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), John Makransky, in deepening the experience of our inborn awakened capacity.  In this practice, we become receptive to the primal openness, wisdom, deep peace and compassion of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional care for self and others.  Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening.  And this can impede even long-time practitioners from much fuller access to awakened awareness.  With newly developed elements of ICT, John will show us how the compassionate, healing powers of our buddha nature can help realign all parts of ourselves with that nature.  Then our innate awakened awareness can increasingly manifest of itself, unleashing its powers of discernment and loving responsiveness in action, while empowering all other practices of awakening.

This retreat will be held in noble silence.

(The retreat was originally titled Transmitting the Blessing of Compassion.)

Wonderwell Mountain Refuge strives to offer retreats in a manner that is non-cost prohibitive and inclusive to persons of all means. If the full retreat cost would create an undue financial burden, we encourage persons to apply for scholarship and work-study. Whether one needs to request aid to defer a large or small portion of the cost of a retreat so as not to incur a financial burden, we strive to accommodate you. This link will take you to information about our work-study and scholarship possibilities.

Wonderwell’s Full Retreat Schedule Page

About the Teacher

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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