MISSION & VISION

MISSION

We provide a home for the study and practice of Buddhism. We do not advocate one particular school of Buddhism; our community is simply a bridge for people to learn how to make change within their own lives and be of benefit to others. Our intention is to help people live with the practices of generosity, morality, patience, diligence, concentration and wisdom. It is the cultivation and integration of these guiding principles that leads to a happy and healthy life.

Our doors are open to people of all levels of experience and our programs are always free!

VISION

We believe the daily practice of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity has a profound impact on humanity. Our intention is to provide an accepting and tolerant space where people from all races, gender identities, sexual orientations, abilities, religions, and cultures can come together to build a peaceful community.

A DREAM

"See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures." ~ Jack Kerouac