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Good Karma – Memorial Day Weekend Retreat 2024
May 24, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - May 27, 2024 @ 1:30 pm PDT

Memorial Day 3-day Retreat
Good Karma
with Ven. Thubten Chodron
May 24 to May 27
In person & streamed on YouTube Live
Why do things happen the way they do?
How do we create the causes for a happy life?
Venerable Thubten Chodron continues a series of teachings over Memorial Day weekend based on her book, Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering, a commentary on “The Wheel of Sharp Weapons” by Indian sage Dharmarakshita.
With practical advice and plenty of humor, Venerable Chodron brings this 9th century mind-training text to life. It teaches how to eliminate the causes of anxiety, fear, and depression, and to create the causes of joyful liberation for ourselves and others. Watch previous teachings on this text here.
All Abbey Dharma programs are offered freely, and your offering is welcomed. There will be another opportunitiy to make additional offerings to the teacher and to the Abbey during the course. Make an offering here.
Registration information
If you have any of these symptoms, please re-schedule your visit: Fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea.
Teachings will be streamed on YouTube live.
Zoom registration is required for the 5:30 am & 11 am meditations and afternoon discussion groups.
Schedule
Friday, May 24 | |
4 – 5 pm | Guest Orientation (in person) |
5 – 5:45 pm | Medicine Meal and clean up |
6 – 8 pm | Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps teaching with Ven. Thubten Chodron (YouTube Live—different link from the rest of the retreat) |
Saturday and Sunday, May 25 – 26 | |
5:30 – 7 am | Morning Meditation (Zoom) |
9 – 10:30 am | Teaching with Ven. Chodron (YouTube) |
11 – 11:50 am | Guided Meditation (Zoom) |
12 – 2 pm | Lunch and Clean Up |
2 – 2:30 pm | Q&A session (in-person only) |
2:30 – 4 pm | Discussion Groups (Zoom) |
4:30 – 6 pm | Teaching with Ven. Chodron (YouTube) |
6 – 7 pm | Medicine Meal and clean up |
7 – 8:15 pm | Evening Meditation (in-person only) |
Monday, May 27 | |
5:30 – 7 am | Morning Meditation (Zoom) |
9 – 10:30 am | Teaching with Ven. Chodron (YouTube) |
11 – 11:50 am | Guided Meditation (Zoom) |
12 – 2 pm | Lunch and clean up |
More about the teacher
She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, including seven volumes (so far) in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with whom she has studied for nearly forty years.
Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her warm, practical, and humorous explanations of how to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life. She is also involved in prison outreach and interfaith dialogue. Learn more about her. Find a media library of her teachings and info on her books on her personal website, ThubtenChodron.org.