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  • 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.

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    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.

  • Daylong Retreat: Caring for the Heart-Mind, Caring for the World

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

    During this Daylong Retreat we will explore the practice of nurturing a kind and caring attitude toward our own heart-mind. In Pali, the language of the Buddhist scriptures, the word citta encompasses both "heart" and "mind," reflecting the deep connection between heart qualities, like kindness and compassion, and mental states. And we explore how, when we care for our citta, we also care for the world.

  • Mindfulness – the Great Medicine: Foundational Mindfulness as Taught by the Buddha

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Do you sometimes find it difficult to manage stress and anxiety, or experience peace in a world of constant distractions? We will explore the foundational teachings on mindfulness in a 5-week course. The course will provide instructions for meditation to develop mindfulness while emphasizing application of these practices to challenges and problems in our daily lives.

  • IMCR Deepening Practice Program

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    In this four-month program we will be deepening our practice through studying and practicing with the teaching that liberated the Buddha: dependent arising (Paṭicca Samuppāda). This teaching helps us to clearly see: how does dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) arise, and how does dukkha cease, leading to happiness and freedom? We will learn practical ways to use the teaching on dependent arising in our day-to-day lives, as well as look at some of the deeper, potentially liberating, layers of this teaching.

  • Awake and at Ease: A Spring Weekend Retreat

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

    During this hybrid non-residential weekend retreat we aim to cultivate relaxation, awareness, and insight. We will explore how open, relaxed awareness can naturally reveal the patterns and conditionings that shape our experience. By approaching our practice with relaxed interest, we create space for experience to unfold simply and naturally, allowing wisdom to emerge in its own time.