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  • Lotus Flower

    Daylong Retreat: Natural Awareness

    The Innerwork Center 213 Roseneath Road, Richmond, VA, United States

    During this day we will learn how open and relaxed awareness can help us to cultivate a broad and skillful understanding of our moment-to-moment experience. This retreat’s teachings will emphasize approaching meditation with relaxed interest. Participants will be encouraged to allow experience to be known in a simple way as it naturally unfolds. This integrated approach to practice is inspired by the teaching style of the Burmese monk Sayadaw U Tejaniya. It has proven to be a useful lens on meditation for beginning and experienced practitioners alike.

  • The Path of Peace

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Please join us for an hour and a half of metta and compassion for our beloved world community. With metta practice, we cultivate an attitude of befriending, attending, and good will. We do not have to love or like what we see. With compassion, we cultivate the capacity to touch into suffering, allowing our hearts to break open.

  • Reclining Buddha

    5-Day Residential Insight Meditation Retreat: Open and Relaxed Awareness

    Richmond Hill 2209 E Grace St, Richmond, VA, United States

    open and relaxed awareness can help us to cultivate a broad and skillful understanding of our moment-to-moment experience. This retreat’s teachings will emphasize approaching meditation with relaxed interest. Participants will be encouraged to allow experience to be known in a simple way as it naturally unfolds. This integrated approach to practice is inspired by the teaching style of the Burmese monk Sayadaw U Tejaniya.

  • Gong

    Daylong Retreat: Deepen Your Practice

    Living Water 1000 Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States

    During this Day-Long Retreat there is the opportunity to deepen your meditation practice. We will be practicing sitting and walking meditation, there will be Dharma reflections and some time for questions and sharing. Everyone is welcome, no prior meditation experience needed

  • Monthly Sunday Sit – “Sunday Unplug” Day

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    This monthly event will be different each time. This month we'll have a "Sunday Unplug" Day: an opportunity to deepen our practice and unplug with teacher and sangha support.

  • Canceled Cancelled: Ekoji Sangha Day

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Sangha Day is a time to have fun and celebrate that diversity. All members, their families and friends, and the public at large are invited to enjoy food, music and other fun activities at Ekoji.

  • Flower

    Lunch & Wisdom Walk to the State Capitol

    Richmond Hill 2209 E Grace St, Richmond, VA, United States

    The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP), Ekoji Buddhist Sangha of Richmond, and Williamsburg Buddhist Sangha invite dharma practitioners from across the Commonwealth (Buddhists, Hindus, and others) for a day of connection, reflection, and public presence.

    We with gather at Richmond Hill, share in a vegetarian lunch, then take a silent, meditative walk down to the lawn near the Virginia General Assembly building. The route is about a mile each way. This is not a protest, but a peaceful expression of our shared values.

  • Monthly Sunday Sit – “Sunday Unplug” Day

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    This monthly event will be different each time. This month we'll have a "Sunday Unplug" Day: an opportunity to deepen our practice and unplug with teacher and sangha support.

  • Monthly Sunday Sit – Freedom is Just This

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    The Buddha provided the wanderer Bahiya with a profoundly direct and brief model that dislodged his familiar sense of self. Upon hearing this teaching, Bahiya instantly and fully realized the fundamentally awake, free nature of reality. Could we directly experience a hint of what Bahiya did? Could we open a thread in our practice that leads in this direction? We will explore this and more in this half-day retreat.