What can you lean on when everything seems to be shaking?

In a word: patience.

Not a limp patience with no guts. But patience as a parami, khanti parami: the warrior's capacity to bear witness to what is, whatever it is.

From this compassionate stance of bearing witness, we can act with clarity, wisdom, and energy, working for the good of everyone involved.

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In this one-day online retreat, Celeste & nico will delve into khanti parami ("patience"), that quality of the heart that stands in what’s real.

The day will begin with an hour of conversation and an opening talk around the theme. We’ll then sit and walk for four hours in lightly guided practice, before reconvening for a closing talk and further dialogue.

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This daylong is the sixth in a series of ten online daylong retreats on the paramis hosted by Refuge of Belonging, a collective founded by nico hase & Devin Berry that is dedicated to sustaining the relationships and the deepening the dharma that people experience in insight meditation retreats.

The ten paramis (“furtherances” or “completions”) are foundational to the Buddhist path of awakening. Spanning states of the heart from kindness and equanimity to resolve and renunciation, they offer us a time tested way forward, a manner of cultivating what most truly benefits ourselves and others, both right now, in this moment, and as a stepping stone to final liberation.