Enter the Realm of Reality!

In "Entry into the Realm of Reality," a young pilgrim goes on a quest for enlightenment and is told, again and again, by king and beggar and sea-captain and child: I am not the whole path. Next, seek out another Good Friend.

We come from a tradition that already knows this. Quakers have called each other Friends for four hundred years — the Light is found not alone, but between us, in the meeting, in the friend who sends you further than they could take you themselves.

Come to Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain, the 4th Annual peace retreat for activists, world-changers, and future Buddhas — Friends.

We will study the secrets of the way. We will push each other past religion as we've inherited it. We will dare each other to become enlightening beings — not someday, for the sake of everyone alive.

We'll use theater, improv, poetry, Zen, and meditation to burn the fog off our own minds. We will study the words of George Fox — and ancient Buddhist texts even older than his. We'll swim in the pure land of Beecher Lake, which, for three days, is not a metaphor. You have every reason to come. Enter a reality where we share the light inside us.

October 9–11.
Dai Bosatsu Zendo, Beecher House
www.nonviolence.works

Hosted by Sander Hicks, and Sophie Gonick

With teachers Luisa Giugliano and Lo Nathamundi.