Summer Opening 2024

We invite you to share in moments from the Summer Opening for families. Over these three weeks, more than 2,000 lay practitioners – including 170 teenagers and 480 children came to live in simplicity, cultivating awareness, understanding, and compassion.

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Summer Opening 2024

We invite you to share in moments from the Summer Opening for families. Over these three weeks, more than 2,000 lay practitioners – including 170 teenagers and 480 children came to live in simplicity, cultivating awareness, understanding, and compassion.

We are deeply grateful to our spiritual friends big and small, especially the more than 120 volunteers who offered their joy and skills to make the Summer Opening possible.

Sitting like a buddhaPracticing stoppingDharma talk in New HamletWalking amongst the plum treesBrother TreasureChanting from the heartSister Chan KhongChildren’s programmeDharma sharingWalking meditationYour joy is my joySister Luc NghiemBrother Kindness and childrenTogetherness in Upper HamletWatering flowersChanting Avalokiteśvara Invoking Avalokiteśvara Children’s programmeHappiness on the Happy Farm
Sister Eleni giving a Dharma talk in Lower HamletSharing on the 5 Mindfulness TrainingsEstablishing mindfulnessFlowing as a riverSister Hoi NghiemChanting as one bodyBe still and knowDharma SharingMindful eating5MT Transmission CeremonyTouching the earthMindful walking to Son Ha TempleAnswering questions from the heartCreative teensSunrise meditationTogether we are one