The Retreatants Program Support Fund
In the words of one of our full-time contemplatives, retreat is...
"A journey through which, inevitably, revolutionary emotional and psychological transformation takes place, catalyzing changes in all aspects of one's life and relationships."
At the CCR, we know that it can be difficult for those who aspire toward long-term retreat to secure the funding or financial context to do so.
Your support lowers the barrier to entry and ongoing costs for retreatants by helping cover the costs associated with retreating at Miyo Samten Ling hermitage—the basic necessities that make a conducive environment for meditation possible.
With your donation today, you make transformational experiences like the following possible:
♦ "[I realized] how material desires, or external needs, are diminished when the mind is calm and when it knows itself... How simply we can live when there is genuine inner contentment and fulfillment."
♦ "Retreat has helped me become less convinced by the heartbreaking stories about my life that have been stuck on a superhighway of habitual rumination. It is easier now to recognize these same stories and avoid their hooks..."
♦ "...there is no separation, no difference between one and others... Knowing all living beings as manifestations of Love in action/form opens you to experience profound compassion and gives rise to true equanimity."
Our retreatants have in many cases sacrificed the stability of a paycheck and many of the comforts of engaged life—all in order to devote themselves to contemplative practice for months and years at a time, for the benefit of all beings. Thank you so much for supporting and honoring our retreatants, as they engage in intensive mind training to ultimately bring their own balanced minds to bear on the challenges our world collectively faces.
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