Deer Park Monastery

We are delighted to invite you to join a special delegation of monastics from Deer Park Monastery for a deeply moving mindful pilgrimage to the holy places of the Buddha's life in India and Nepal this coming October with Dharma Teacher Shantum Seth.

This Evening our Sangha here at Deer Park will practice sitting meditation and chanting up in the mountain next to our large White Buddha statue as the Full moon rise. Tomorrow morning we will bathe the Baby Buddha under the ancient Oaks, touching the historical Buddha and Buddha Nature in ourselves and in each other. In order to deepen our understanding and compassion we would like to share with you a letter inviting us to celebrate a Green Vesak. [ 503 more words. ]

http://deerparkmonastery.org/engaged…/celebrate-green-vesak/

This past week our Earth Holder Retreat, For a Future to Be Possible, lured 130 friends to Deer Park Monastery of the Hidden Mountains of Escondido. Among them were two friends helping to film many activities from the retreat, many Earth Holder Sangha members, friends from One Earth Sangha, Buddhist Climate Action Network and 350.org. We want to share some of the fruits we received during the retreat. [ 488 more words. ]

http://earthholdinghereandnow.org/…/fruits-from-earth-hold…/

Today the Community at Deer Park finalized the schedule for the coming Earth Holder Retreat: For a Future to Be Possible. There will be opportunities to stop and nurture our love and connection with ourselves, each other and the Earth. Opportunities to cultivate our happiness and peace as well as embrace and look deeply into our individual and collective suffering. [ 51 more words. ]

http://deerparkmonastery.org/…/earth-holder-retreat-day-mi…/

What are you doing with your teenager this summer? How about they join us at Deer Park? Registration opens today for our annual teen camp.

This retreat does fill up early. Registration begins on Saturday, April 16.

A call to our leaders to formally sign COP21 on April 22, 2016 in NYC The COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris in December was an historic event of tremendous significance. For the first time, all nations of the World agreed to take action on climate change. We are now calling on the Leaders of those 195 nations, to "Sign Us Up for LIFE!". [ 459 more words. ]

http://earthholdinghereandnow.org/2016/…/08/sign-up-for-life

The international Wake Up newsletter, filled with personal sharing from young lay friends and monastics, is now out! http://eepurl.com/bQYKn1

Our Wake Up Retreat concludes today but not before a large group of friends received the Five Mindfulness Trainings this morning. Beautiful!

Registration will open today for our annual Vesak Retreat.

Blooming.

We're still here, walking in nature, and will reopen again on March 25. Here's a little peek of the lushness after rain and sun.

The gentle sound of flowing water fills the garden as lay and monastic dharma teachers gather together for a few days of friendship.

We're still charged by the sun.

Bring the kids! Schedule for 2016 Children's Program at Deer Park.

http://deerparkmonastery.org/general/childrens-program-2016/

We’re resting. For the next few weeks (February 29 - March 24), the monastery (and the entrance gate) will be closed to the public. Our first Day of Mindfulness in spring will be on March 27, 2016.

Registration is now OPEN for this important retreat on taking care of the earth. Don't miss this opportunity.

Tiếp Hiện và Bồ Tát Đạo

http://deerparkmonastery.org/vi/tiep-hien-va-bo-tat-dao/

By the Venerable Thich Phuoc Tinh Dear community, today is the last day of the Vietnamese retreat. There was a Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings transmission ceremony yesterday. Most of the people here are practitioners who have already received the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. Regrettably, there was no time for Sister Chan Khong and Brother Phap Dang to share the meanings of the Fourteen Precepts. [ 9219 more words. ]

http://deerparkmonastery.org/…/understanding-and-love-the-…/