Dear Friends,
We warmly invite you to join our Christmas Celebration on December 24, 2025.
Our program for this day is as follows:
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Dharma Talk in the Big Meditation Hall
11:00 Walking Meditation
12:00 Lunch
15:00 Gift Preparations
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Be-In
Program concludes.
We wish you much inner peace and love during this holiday season!
*Please bring a small gift (if possible, preferably handmade to encourage creativity and fun or of less than $10 value) for a gift exchange game.
For our monastics and long term retreatants, if you pick a name, we are encouraged to observe the person who’s name we picked to better understand them and offer an appropriate gift that suits their needs or personality.
If you are visiting for the weekend, please don’t worry too much about the materialistic aspect of the gift–it’s the heart that counts and we just offer our joy–the most precious gift! Let our seeds of creativity be watered; we can offer a poem we made, perhaps a photo of nature we took, or a handcrafted gift… and go beyond the boxes of conventional thinking. Our spirit of gift exchange is not to nurture the culture of consumerism but to see how creative we can be with our gifts in a joyful way. We can still offer gifts without watering the seeds of consumerism in each other. (If it’s easiest for you to buy a gift, something we can use in our everyday life or food gifts are also perfectly fine.)
**Please kindly note that we are unable to accommodate overnight stays as we are also preparing for our upcoming Holiday Retreat which begins Dec. 28th.
To best support our chefs du jour prepare for our Christmas Celebration, please register below:
