BASE Camp 1. Dates and Places 2. Retreat Description 3. Contact Us

1. Dates and Places

2004 BASE Camp

Metta Retreat
4 PM Saturday May 29th to 12 PM Saturday June 5th

Vipassana Retreat
4 PM Saturday June 5th to 12 PM Sunday June 13th

Combined Metta and Vipassana Retreat
4 PM Saturday May 29th to 12 PM Sunday June 13th
note: preference will be given to those who can come to both retreats

Location:
Green Valley Meditation Center
Sebastopol, CA

Teachers:
Tempel Smith and Marvin Belzer
Visiting Guest Teachers: ... to be announced

2. Retreat Description
BASE Camp is a socially engaged Buddhist education and training retreat offered to those who want to be involved with socially engaged Buddhist projects. It is a place where students, service providers and progressive activists gather together to practice various forms of Buddhist meditations in the morning and evening, and learn to put these practices in action during afternoon trainings or work projects.

The first retreat will be focused on practicing Metta (Loving Friendship) meditation and studying nonviolent communication and generous offerings toward service projects on the retreat facility.

During the second retreat Vipassana (Insight) meditation will be offered during the mornings and evenings with afternoon trainings to understand social diversity, social forms of suffering, and positive social change.

Teachers:

Tempel Smith has been practicing Insight and Metta meditation since the 1989 including a year as a fully ordained monk in Burma. He has been leading residential youth retreats for many years at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. He is currently organizes the BASE program at the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, a member of the Spirit Rock Teen Council, and teaches the teen program at IMC in Redwood City.

Endorsed by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship