Mountain Lamp
Throughout our years of practice, we have visited many places where prayer and meditation have been a primary focus for many years. Always we are moved by the serenity of such places. It is something quite different than we experience anywhere in the modern world, and to go to such places we enter into something that is ancient and sacred. The quiet years of meditation have penetrated the air, and we are embraced in silence and awareness. We touch within ourselves a place of refuge that is always there, but gets covered over by our everyday lives of planning and worries.
In going to places of retreat, we touch what is sacred and ancient within ourselves, our personal place of refuge. And when we leave that place, we are able to carry the stillness with us sometimes for a brief period, sometimes for a long while. We have dedicated Wild Rose Farm to becoming a place of refuge for those wishing to live their life in mindfulness and peace. We know that this won't take place overnight. Like our practice, it will grow slowly through years of dedication and awareness. But each breath, or each Mu we breathe in awareness, each step we take in mindfulness, perfumes the air with practice. And without our knowing how, a place of refuge is born.
Visit Dharanimdhara Meditation Hall and Zendo
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