Winter Retreat Uposatha Program 2022

Since the Buddha’s time, on the Full Moon and New Moon days, monastics and householders have gathered on the Uposatha. The monastics recite their precepts and listen to Dhamma talks, and dedicated lay practitioners undertake the Refuges and Eight Uposatha Precepts for one day, including evening fasting, celibacy and abstaining from adornment and entertainment. They have a daylong retreat, spending the day in sustained mindfulness and meditation, and listening to Dhamma teachings.

During the Dhammadharini community's three-month winter retreat, from January through March, Ven. Sobhana Theri will offer fortnightly day-long online retreats on the Uposatha days.  She will offer Dhamma teachings based on the Dhammadharini's Winter Retreat practice with Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo’s course of lectures on The Mind Stilled: Nibbāna Sermons  aka the “33 Nibbāna Sermons” of the late most venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero.

The very last program, at 7 pm PST on March 31, will be a Gratitude Program, sharing…