Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese Spanish
This 400-acre sanctuary rests peacefully in the chaparral mountains of southern California, surrounded and protected by oaks and the natural landscape.
We are now hosting Online Days of Mindfulness!
Join us on Zoom or Youtube on Sundays for Guided Sitting Meditation, Walking Meditation, and Dharma Talks. Please check our Calendar for an up-to-date schedule and links for our Online offerings.
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Retreats
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News & Updates
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Deer Park Featured in Union-Tribune
On Sunday, November 8, the San Diego Union-Tribune offered two articles in recognization of our 20-year anniversary.
Nov 10, 2020
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Online Days of Mindfulness
From November through January, we will be offering an online Day of Mindfulness each Sunday. Beginning at 5:45am with sitting meditation.
Nov 5, 2020
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Face-to-Face Ceremony – Livestream
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishFollowing a tradition that dates back to the Buddha’s time, each year the Deer Park fourfold Sangha has a 3-month Rains Retreat. The monastic brothers and sisters use this time to deepen their practice. The Rains Retreat begins with two ceremonies. The first is the Counting Sticks Ceremony and the second […]
Oct 31, 2020
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Counting Sticks Ceremony – Livestream
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishFollowing a tradition that dates back to the Buddha’s time, each year the Deer Park fourfold Sangha has a 3-month Rains Retreat. The monastic brothers and sisters use this time to deepen their practice. The Rains Retreat begins with two ceremonies. The first is on Saturday night and the second […]
Oct 31, 2020
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20 Year Anniversary Book: For You
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese Spanish “When we build a meditation hall or a bell tower, we can easily see the final product. When we build brotherhood and sisterhood, it is a hundred times more important than the meditation hall or the bell tower, but people may not see it if they are not mindful. […]
Oct 17, 2020
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The Day I Turn Twenty
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishAn Online Retreat on October 21-25, 2020 Bring the mindfulness practices and the larger community of Deer Park Monastery straight into your home, turning your apartment or house into the Ocean of Peace Meditation Hall, and nourishing the roots that we all share here in the valley of […]
Sep 26, 2020
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Novice Ordination Ceremony
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese Spanish Dear Friends, On Sunday, September 6, 2020, at 9 AM Pacific Time, we will live-stream the novice ordination ceremony on the Deer Park Monastery Facebook page. Three aspirants who have been practicing and training in Solidity Hamlet will become novice monks. Even though you cannot physically be […]
Sep 4, 2020
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International Family Retreat
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishOn Tuesday 28 July to Sunday 2 August, 2020 What if we could bring the nuns and monks of the Plum Village tradition right into our homes? This is the invitation of this online family retreat: to turn our home into Plum Village, Deer Park, Blue Cliff, and Magnolia […]
Jul 14, 2020
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On Break from Live Stream
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishDear Friends, Deer Park will take a short break from live-streaming activities on Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17. Live-streaming will resume on our Facebook page at 5 PM Pacific Time on May 23, 2020. Want to continue sitting, chanting, and walking meditation with or without us? Watch and […]
May 12, 2020
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Vesak Day Live Stream
Translation / Dịch : Vietnamese SpanishWe are pleased to announce that Deer Park Monastery will be live-streaming a small Bathing the Baby Buddha Ceremony to celebrate Vesak Day, the birthday of the historical Buddha. Watch it on our Facebook page (link below) at 11:45 AM Pacific Time on Sunday, May 3, 2020. Deer Park Monastery […]
Apr 30, 2020