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December 2019
Holiday Retreat for families and individuals
Join us to experience joy as a spiritual family. Each one of us takes part in creating the garden of humanity. Creating joy sometimes eludes us though. The emphasis of this retreat will be to enhance your practice of planting seeds of joy in yourself and others. We will use the practices of mindfulness to touch the joy of life in the midst of the mundane. The retreat includes daily teachings on mindfulness and sessions of walking meditation, sitting meditation…
Find out more »January 2020
Lunar New Year Celebration (Tết)
You are welcome to join the Magnolia Grove Monastery community for our celebrations of the Lunar New Year, or “Tết” – the most important festival in Vietnamese culture. This is one of the more unusual and joyous weeks in the Magnolia Grove calendar, centered around informal teachings based on traditional Vietnamese poetic “oracle reading”. Pricing: Dormitory – Adult $50/night | Teen $35/night | Child $25/ night Cabin – Adult $65/night | Teen $50/night | Child $40/ night <!--Room: …
Find out more »February 2020
“Keeping the Flame Alive”- Retreat for OI Members, OI Aspirants, and Sangha Facilitators
This retreat is dedicated for OI Members, OI Aspirants, and Sangha Facilitators. Thich Nhat Hanh has often taught about interbeing and impermanence by using a match to light a candle. “My dear little flame,” he would ask the candle light, “Are you the same flame as before, or are you a totally different flame?” Through his lifetime of teaching and practice, Thầy lit the flame of the Dharma in his students. As Thay’s students, we pick up Thầy’s many teachings…
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