Photographs of Manzanita Village Retreat. Some recent, some recently revisited. Enjoy!
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Have you ever wondered how everything seems to go right for some people, while others just keep beating their heads against the wall? Or after they learned to stop beating themselves up, they are lost in disappointment and regret; going round in circles, wondering why things are so hard. How many people do you know who are always blaming life, other people, and the past, for the difficulties in their life? [...] I had felt ambivalent about Earth Day since it first showed up in the early 1970’s. Isn’t every day Earth day? Would fish celebrate ‘Water Day’? [...] The relationship you have with others, whatever sort of relationship that may be – professional, romantic, and everything in between—is inevitably a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself. That means that any internal conflict you have within yourself— any conflict of values, or unfinished business – will show up on the outside. [...] You could write a book to unpack the idea of the wild. In fact there have been several. I am thinking in particular of Gary Snyder’s Practice of the Wild. Join us for a retreat to learn ways to open to the simplicity of living from the innate and naturally wild capacity of mind. [...] A Meditation Retreat is an ideal way to begin to learn to meditate. Beginners often say that they are not ready to come to a retreat yet. In fact, coming to a retreat is the very best way to establish a working understanding of meditation, [...] The more you come into balance and congruence with your own mind, the more you trust the fluidity and flow of it. This is the subject for our retreat over Labor Day weekend in September. [...] One of the great masters of Budo (a physically demanding Japanese dance and performance-art form) didn’t take up the art until after he was seventy. [...] Retreats at Manzanita Village are open to all. They weave together the teachings and practices of the Buddhist Traditions with the timeless themes of Peace-Making and Non-Violence, Social-Justice, Personal Integration and Creativity. Retreats follow the traditional forms of monastic practice, blending Theravada (Vipassana) practice with Thien (Zen). [...] |
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Contact us: Manzanita@OrdinaryDharma.org
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