Land of Medicine Buddha retreat center will host an interfaith retreat “Cutting Through to Compassion” , from Thursday, August 9 through Sunday, August 12, 2018. It starts on Thursday evening and goes through Sunday midday.

The retreat will be led by Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi, Rabbi Diane Elliot, and Pastor Steve Harms. See Details and Register <http://landofmedicinebuddha.org/events/compassion-interfaith-retreat/>.

People can register to stay onsite or commute.  Please go to link: <http://stay.landofmedicinebuddha.org/plan-your-stay/maps-and-directions/>.

“What helps you cultivate and sustain buoyancy, hope, and inner spaciousness in these turbulent times? How can we help one another cut through the vitriol and violence that erupts daily in our world, to enter the flow of compassionate understanding that will most effectively source our work for equity, justice, and protection for the vulnerable ones in our midst?

In this retreat, the third in the annual “Compassionate Conversations” series, Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi, Rabbi Diane Elliot, and Pastor Steve Harms serve as your guides while, together, we mine the wisdom of three spiritual traditions—Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism. Each path offers a wealth of teachings and practices to help us refine our moral compass and grow the awareness, consistency, creativity, and kindness we need to meet the spiritual and practical challenges of our times.

Our time together will include meditation and movement, singing and prayer, textual study and sacred ritual, focused conversation, art-making, silence, and rest.

“Compassionate Conversations” is a consortium of spiritual teachers and practitioners, situating ourselves in different faith traditions (or none). Honoring the particular wisdom of our varied lineage paths, we come together with a commitment to listening deeply, sharing practices, engaging in thoughtful conversations, expanding our awareness, and growing our capacities for kindness and understanding. We come together to enhance our humanness, to celebrate our uniqueness while uncovering what we share in common, and to bring healing, joy, and connectivity into our broken and suffering world.”