Entering the Dharma Gate of Spring

Please join us for a half-day retreat to celebrate springtime and the spirit of renewal. It will be a precious opportunity for us to cultivate the seeds of bodhicitta and the blossoming of our connection to community.

Our retreat will take place at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center where the surrounding gardens make it an ideal location to enter the “Dharma Gate of Spring.” We’ll contemplate the awakening of the Earth that occurs naturally in springtime, and how it can inspire our own awakening. We’ll explore what the season teaches us about beginner’s mind and fresh perspectives on old habits and conditioning. We’ll discover how to “begin again and again” with the birth of each moment, and how to open up to the experience of renewal in practice, and in life.

We will be meeting at the Annex near the labyrinth. There will be chairs available for sitting, or…