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What moments do you experience freedom? Can you a

What moments do you experience freedom?
Can you a remember a time where it 'clicked' and you tasted it?

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Quote by Ronya Banks, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

"Ronya banks - Freedom is not a concept, freedom is experiential. We have our ideas about what freedom looks like. We've experienced little bits of freedom so we know what they feel like to a certain degree, but it's not something we can intellectually convey to somebody else or 'get' through concepts."

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Just one spot left for two upcoming residential re

Just one spot left for two upcoming residential retreats with Lisa Ernst and Reverend Ginger Lee. More details at southerndharma.org. Check in is between 4 and 6pm on the first day and retreat ends with lunch on the last day. Scholarships available!

Awakening Together: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Strengths with Lisa Ernst: August 10-14

Meditation through the Art of Movement with Reverend Ginger Lee: August 25-28

Both retreats are open to all, no prior meditation or qigong experience required. Questions? Email registrar@southerndharma.org

Staff mushroom foraging day at Southern Dharma Ret

Staff mushroom foraging day at Southern Dharma Retreat Center. We are going to be fearing tonight!

#chanterelles #blacktrumpets #boletes #milkcaps #andmore

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

In a few weeks, our local Asheville affiliated tea

In a few weeks, our local Asheville affiliated teacher, Jogen Salzberg will be sharing this beautiful offering at Urban Dharma (@urban_dharma_nc). If you're interested, please RSVP in advanced.

Registration link in our bio.

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Daylong Immersion Details:

A deep and open heart and spaciousness are qualities of being that are called forth by a sincere meditation practice.

Spaciousness gives us the capacity to feel what we feel courageously, to let emotions move through, to listen deeply and to allow life to unfold with more ease.

A deep and open heart is its own nourishment- being touched by life, being available for friendship with the human and non-human, living with a quality of tenderness towards ourselves and others

These two beautiful qualities support each other and this day of practice will include sitting and movement practices where we cultivate both.

The schedule includes teaching spread throughout the periods of practice.

No prior meditation experience required, all equipment and materials provided.

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DATE & TIME DETAILS: Saturday August 20th 10:00-1:00p and 3:00-7:00p with a break from 1:00-3:00p

LOCATION: Urban Dharma
ADDRESS: 697c Haywood Road, Asheville, NC, USA

SLIDING SCALE: $0 - $75
Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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We look forward to sitting with you.

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How has illness impacted your life and dharma prac

How has illness impacted your life and dharma practice?
Were there gifts in the difficulties?
Difficulties in the gifts?

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Quote by David Chernikoff, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

"There are specific changes that we go through when we are touched by illness in our lives, and fortunately the dharma and other contemplative teachings give us wonderful guidelines and equipment for working with these changes in a way that become part of our process of awakening."

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Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban D

Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for our special session of Live from Southern Dharma.

Tomorrow's Dharma talk will be
"Dharma: A Beautiful Vessel For Our Lives"

It is the natural impulse of our hearts to want to live in peace, kindness and freedom from suffering. During this talk, John Orr, will talk about the meaning of Dharma and how skillful living, the development of meditation and the cultivation of the wise heart has led many to the liberation we all seek.
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We are grateful to welcome John Orr tomorrow to share in their dharma teachings.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Have you been getting out in nature lately? How h

Have you been getting out in nature lately?
How has being in nature served your dharma practice recently?

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Quote by Rupert Marques, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

"The natural world itself serves as a refuge, a mirror, and a mentor for our own maturation and development."

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We've just added an exciting, Asheville-local offe

We've just added an exciting, Asheville-local offering to our calendar hosted at Urban Dharma (@urban_dharma_nc) in Asheville.

Heart & Spaciousness is a daylong immersion for those of you who may be longing for a day steeped in the dharma.

Registration link is in our bio.

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Daylong Immersion Details:

A deep and open heart and spaciousness are qualities of being that are called forth by a sincere meditation practice.

Spaciousness gives us the capacity to feel what we feel courageously, to let emotions move through, to listen deeply and to allow life to unfold with more ease.

A deep and open heart is its own nourishment- being touched by life, being available for friendship with the human and non-human, living with a quality of tenderness towards ourselves and others

These two beautiful qualities support each other and this day of practice will include sitting and movement practices where we cultivate both.

The schedule includes teaching spread throughout the periods of practice.

No prior meditation experience required, all equipment and materials provided.

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DATE & TIME DETAILS: Saturday August 20th 10:00-1:00p and 3:00-7:00p with a break from 1:00-3:00p

LOCATION: Urban Dharma
ADDRESS: 697c Haywood Road, Asheville, NC, USA

SLIDING SCALE: $0 - $75
Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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We hope to see you there🙏🏼

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#buddism #bodhisattva #budda #buddhadharma #buddhateachings #buddhatemple #budhism #buddhaquotes #buddhas #buddhist #buddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhist #buddha #karma #dharma #zen #believer #believe #faith #spiritualist #spiritual #spiritualawakening #awakening #awake #awaken #meditate #meditation #peaceofmind #peaceful

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Our Center and community have been blessed this we

Our Center and community have been blessed this week by the presence and labor of two wonderful volunteers, Donna and Yotum. Donna even brought a few champion zucchinis and cantaloupes from her home garden for us. Volunteers are the life blood of the Center and we welcome to expressions of interest at anytime. Just visit the “Live & Work” section of our website for more information.

We're curious: Where are you holding on today? Wh

We're curious:
Where are you holding on today?
Where are you letting go today?

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Quote by Rev. Ginger Lee, Affiliated Dharma Teacher

"The idea of achieving true freedom is about being free from either holding or letting go.

To attain this freedom we need to be able to cultivate the ability to hold our mind when it is necessary and let it go when it is necessary."

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This quote comes from Rev. Ginger Lee's video "A Road to Freedom" on the Won Buddhism Now (@wonbuddhism_now) Youtube Channel.

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Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban D

Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for our special session of Live from Southern Dharma.
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We are grateful to welcome Hun Lye tomorrow to share in their dharma teachings.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
.
We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban D

Please join our sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for our special bi-monthly session of Live from Southern Dharma.
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We are grateful to welcome Sister Clear Grace tomorrow to share in their dharma teachings.
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We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at

Please join our Sunday Sangha tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for Integrated Dharma.
.
Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
.
We look forward to sitting in community with you.
🙏🏼

Please join us tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma fo

Please join us tomorrow evening at Urban Dharma for our Sunday Sangha Integrated Dharma.
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Tomorrow's session will be hosted by local dharma teacher Jogen Salzberg.
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We look forward to sitting in sangha with you.
🙏🏼

Live from Southern Dharma Tonight at Urban Dharma!

Live from Southern Dharma Tonight at Urban Dharma!
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Come join us tonight along with Jon Orr
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We look forward to seeing you there.

Please join us tonight at Urban Dharma for our Sun

Please join us tonight at Urban Dharma for our Sunday Sangha Integrated Dharma.
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Tonight's session will be hosted by Southern Dharma's Executive Director, Sonia Marcus.
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We look forward to sitting with you.
🙏🏼

This Monday June 6th at 7:30pm: Reverend Teijo Mun

This Monday June 6th at 7:30pm: Reverend Teijo Munnich of Great Tree Zen Temple will be leading a live in-person and online session from Urban Dharma in West Asheville. The topic will be “Transitions”.

Live from Southern Dharma is a bi-weekly event that is offered both in person at Urban Dharma in West Asheville as well as streamed online. This series features local and traveling Buddhist teachers and will include a guided meditation period, some social time, and a dharma offering with some Q&A. In light of the spike in Covid cases recently, masks are currently required for attendees. Teacher dana is gratefully accepted, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Get the Zoom link by clicking on “Asheville and Online Programs” in our bio. See you then!

Posted @withregram • @firestormcoop To celebrate

Posted @withregram • @firestormcoop To celebrate the release of "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition," our co-op is teaming up with Southern Dharma Retreat Center to host a special hybrid event (in-person and live-streamed online!) with author and scholar Rima Vesely-Flad in conversation with local Black trans storyteller Spike. The event will take place just down the road from our bookstore in West Asheville at Urban Dharma (697c Haywood Road) and those wishing to watch virtually can request a link during registration to attend on Zoom.

In "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition" Rima Vesely-Flad examines the distinctive features of Black-identifying Buddhist practitioners and includes discussions of the Black Power movement, the Black feminist movement, and the Black prophetic tradition. It also offers a nuanced discussion of how the Black body, which has historically been reviled, is claimed as a vehicle for liberation. In so doing, the book explores how the experiences of non-binary, gender non-conforming, and transgender practitioners of African descent are validated within the tradition. The book also uplifts the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer Black Buddhists.

You can find "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition" on our website, or pick up a copy by following the link in our bio and registering for the event. We hope to see you there! (-Ash)

#BlackBuddhists #BlackRadicalTradition #BlackPower #BlackPropheticTradition #RadicalDharma #AuthorEvent #WhatToRead #IndieBookstore #FeministBookstore #WorkerCoop #FirestormCoop

Registration link: https://firestorm.coop/events/2977-black-buddhists-and-the-black-radical-tradition.html

Posted @withregram • @mindfullivingrevolution Wa

Posted @withregram • @mindfullivingrevolution Watching the moon at midnight,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely
No part left out.

—Izumi Shikibu

Please join me on the full moon for a virtual evening meditation and dharma talk on Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness, 7:30pm EST. This will be hosted by @southerndharma You can join us via livestream. All are welcome.

Monday, May 16th, 7:30pm EST.

Link in bio.