Compassion in Action: How To Overcome Obstacles

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.  – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche 

In uncertain times, clarity and compassion are not luxuries but are essential capacities we can train.

This weekend retreat offers an opportunity to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the inner stability, strength, and warmth that are always available to us. Guided by Buddhist teachings, we will explore how fear, confusion, and personal challenges are not immovable barriers but doorways through which we can face our confusions and fears.

Through meditation, study, reflection, and shared experience, we will consider how practice can support a more compassionate and balanced way of engaging with our lives, relationships, communities, and and beyond.

We will touch a few key elements of this journey – common obstacles to becoming true friends with ourselves (maitri), opening us to genuine compassion (karuna) and the six perfections (Paramitas) that has always been our nature. From this foundation, we will begin to explore the Mahayana perspective, where awareness deepens into compassion and the aspiration to benefit others.

This retreat will be offered in English with Consecutive Interpreting in Spanish.