Welcome to The Mountain Hermitage
OFFERING BUDDHIST RETREATS IN TAOS, NEW MEXICO
The Mountain Hermitage is dedicated to the inner cultivation and outer manifestation of concentration, wisdom, lovingkindness, compassion, and peace. This home for long-term spiritual practice, grounded in the principles of Theravada Buddhism, is based in the quiet and beautiful mountain area of Taos, New Mexico.
Many Mountain Hermitage retreats are for experienced Dharma practitioners; however, the Hermitage is now offering some week-long retreats open to both beginning and experienced students. All retreats are held in appropriate rented places in and around Taos. The small group size at Hermitage retreats (usually a maximum of 18 students) helps create a more intimate experience and easier access to teachers.
The Mountain Hermitage extends a special welcome and has established a scholarship fund to support Buddhist monks and nuns and lay Dharma teachers, as well as multi-cultural practitioners and other Dharma students who without scholarship aid would not be able to attend Hermitage retreats.
All who come to practice at The Mountain Hermitage will be honored and supported in their quest to awaken to the deepest truths and to manifest these truths in their daily lives.
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Latest News, Dharma Talks, and Reflections on Practice
Dhamma Talks: 2017 Self-Not Self & the Creative Process Retreat
Click Here to listen to the full Dharma Talks and shorter Reflections from this retreat.
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Universal Responsibility & the Climate Emergency By His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
“Let us adopt a lifestyle that emphasizes contentment, because the cost to the planet & humanity of ever-increasing ‘standards of living’ is simply too great.” It is difficult to fully comprehend great environmental changes like global...
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The Great Gift We Can Give to the World
In these troubled times that we live in, we can find ourselves very unhappy with the way events are unfolding in the world & wanting them to be a different way than they are. Because we don’t know how to make sense of it all, the question might arise: Is it...
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The Buddha Teaches on Mindfulness of Death
“Monks, mindfulness of death — when developed & pursued — is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. And how is mindfulness of death developed & pursued so that it is of great fruit...
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Gil Fronsdal Reflects on Hindrances to Clear Seeing….
Anyone who practices mindfulness knows that there are forces in the mind that can make it difficult to be mindful. Rather than reacting to these difficulties as somehow being “bad” or as “distractions,” it is important to investigate them. It...
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Dhamma Talks: 2017 Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose
Click HERE to listen to the Dharma talks and some of the shorter morning reflections from this retreat. TEACHER Marcia Rose (for biography, see Guiding teacher page)...
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