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Retreat
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Cultivating peace, wisdom, and kindness during a meditation retreat for young adults
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Review of ‘Small Boat, Vast Ocean: My Years in Solitary Buddhist Retreat’
A new book offers a rare view of what it’s like to spend three years, three months, and three days in intense, sometimes solitary, practice.
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In the Cabin of the Crazy One
A Vajrayana practitioner recounts her late-in-life gender transition while on a 12-day solo meditation retreat
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12 Steps for a DIY At-Home Retreat
Wherever you are, and no matter how much time you have, you can commit to this fundamental part of a Buddhist practice.
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Please Enjoy Your Food
It could be the best meditation you do all day.
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CultureMagazine | Film, Reviews
A Profoundly Social Solitude
In a new documentary, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's escape from cloistered life thrusts him into a deeper relationship with society.
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Cold Hard Truth
A new film follows thousands of nuns on winter retreat in the mountains.
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Personal Reflections Zen Buddhism
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A reflection on pilgrimage: a journey toward the sacred and the return home
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On Retreat
In 1995 Judith Skinner started a traditional three-year Tibetan Buddhist retreat in her rent-controlled San Francisco apartment. 24 years later, she's still on retreat. Judith reflects on her two decades spent largely in solitude.
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