What a year this has been for our jewel of a sangha!

December 16, 2022

Let’s celebrate with some snapshots of 2022, and offer gratitude for our precious community!

We held a corcucopia of retreats at SCOL:

Buddha’s Women Disciples
Vipashyna: Exploring the Nature of Mind
Mahamudra Program Yidam Retreat
Family Retreat
Summer Personal Long Retreat
Mahamudra: View, Meditation and Conduct

And wonderful dharma events at our Portland Center:

Chanting the Rain of Wisdom
A Tonglen Retreat: Awakening the Heart by Transforming Resistance
Kenchen Konchok Gyaltsen Rinpoche gave teachings, a Refuge Ceremony, and the Bodhisattva Vow.

We have countless opportunities for practice, study, and engagement:

Sunday Shamata Practice and Dharma Discussion
Chenrezi and Green Tara Practices
Morning Zoom meditation sessions
Mind Training Study Group
Equanimity and Inclusion Group
Death and Dying Study Group
Climate Action Study Group
Engaged Buddhism Group

The Children’s Dharma Program recommenced

We took care of ourselves, Ser Chö Ösel Ling and our Portland Center

Community Life Needs and Care Group
Karma Cleaners Dust Bunny Roundups
Dharma Diggers
SCOL Work Parties

We embarked upon important efforts:

Improved our Sexual Misconduct Policies and required sexual misconduct training for staff.
Adopted an Inclusivity Policy and an Action Plan for implementation.
Launched our new Service Group Coordinators structure.
Commenced our long-awaited Strategic Planning Process.

And we have fun together

Sattva Social Club movie nights and events
Buddhist Bingo
Blooming Lotus Vajriety Show

Indeed, ours is a precious human existence,

with abundant access to dharma study, practice and community.

Please contemplate what it is that you especially value about KCC and consider offering dana in gratitude as 2022 concludes.

Perhaps you find the Zoom service to be essential and wish to help support the $800 per year costs; or you understand the need to help underwrite something entirely unglamorous like propane at SCOL, which is running almost $5,000 a year these days.

Or you might choose to honor Chenrezi or Green Tara practice, or the Mind Training Study Group, or the Children’s Dharma Program.

Please know that whatever generosity you can offer sustains access to the dharma for so many both near and far, and is deeply appreciated.