We offer a day of quiet retreat, meditation, and reflection for a deepening of our inner experience of awareness, body, breath, and type. Santikaro, a Buddhist teacher who trained as a monk in Thailand for many years, will lead a day of practice drawing on Buddhist tradition and adapted to Enneagram studies. Our primary activity will be sitting meditation [...]

A serious Buddhist naturally asks of the Enneagram,"What sort of understanding and practice is this? What does it contribute to the end of suffering? Will this help me penetrate the illusion of `self ' in order to let go of `I' and `mine'? Is this a path in itself or merely a supplement?" To explore these questions, I will [...]

This afternoon we will look into the structure of ego-type using the classic Buddhist teaching of dependent coorigination. This perspective, which the Buddha considered the heart of his teaching, looks at the causal processes by which we give birth to ourselves as egoistic beings, and the anxiety and suffering produced by ego-birth. Many of the terms used by the [...]