Meditation & Community
Across the Gulf South
Flowering Lotus Meditation is a mobile sangha.
We host meditation retreats at multiple locations across the southern United States and strive to create retreat experiences accessible to all.
We bring in experienced Buddhist teachers to teach students, with any level of experience, meditation.
All retreats and other events are based on Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and compassion.
We welcome anyone to attend.
Retreats and Practice Opportunities
We currently host retreats in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Look closely at the venue of each retreat to join us at a location that works best for you!
The Ten Parāmi Series
Adhiṭṭhāna Parāmi:
The Joy of a Wish Fulfilled
Dharma Talk with Rev. Christie Bates
As the Buddhist tradition developed, the view emerged that one needs to cultivate and perfect a particular set of qualities—often over multiple lifetimes. These are the ten paramis in the Theravāda tradition are generosity (dāna), morality (sīla), renunciation (nekhamma), insight (pañña), energy (viriya), patience (khanti), truthfulness (sacca), resolution (adhiṭṭhāna), loving-kindness (metta), and (equanimity (upekkhā).
Each second Sunday our sangha will host a Dharma teacher to speak on one of the parāmi.
Online • February 11, 2024 Join us Sunday at 6pm
Grief, Joy, and Awakening:
An Insight Meditation Retreat
with David Chernikoff
Experiences of grief and joy play an essential role in the process of spiritual awakening. In this retreat, we’ll deepen our understanding of grief and joy on the conceptual levels while we also expand our affect tolerance on the level of direct, personal experience. There will be dharma talks, experiential exercises, heart-felt discussions, and a significant amount of meditation practice in Noble Silence. In a caring, supportive learning community, we will open ourselves to the “ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows” as we discover the wisdom and peace of what Sharon Salzberg has called “a heart as wide as the world.”
WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St Louis, MS 39520
In-Person Retreat • April 12-14, 2024