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Flowering Lotus Meditation is a mobile sangha.
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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.
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All retreats and other events are based on Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and compassion.
We welcome anyone to attend.
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Upcoming Offerings
The Tree and the Cross: Buddha, Christ, and the Compassion We’ve Forsaken
With Heiwa no Bushi
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Join us for a rare and illuminating teaching from Heiwa no Bushi, Black Thai Buddhist-Christian monk, philosopher, and visionary founder of the BodhiChristo Path.
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In this intimate gathering, Heiwa no Bushi will guide us through a transformative interspiritual exploration: “The Tree and the Cross: Buddha, Christ, and the Compassion We’ve Forsaken.” We’ll investigate the profound overlap between the Bodhi Tree and the Cross—symbols of awakening and sacrifice—and what they can teach us about reclaiming compassion in a fragmented world.
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Drawing from Buddhist wisdom, Christic love, and Expansive Thought Theory, this talk will challenge conventional religious paradigms while opening us to a deeper, freer way of being.
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Saturday July 12, 2025
9:00 AM CST
Online via Zoom
Loving Kindness Retreat
with Rev. Mikey Noechel, MS and
Andrew Chapman, LMSW
In this retreat, we will engage in sustained meditation practice to cultivate a deeper understanding and connection with our internal experience. By observing the natural flow of the
mind-body process, we develop the clarity and compassion necessary to meet life’s joys and challenges, pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness with greater acceptance and balance.
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St. Mary’s Sewanee
770 St. Mary's Lane Sewanee, TN 37375
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Residential Retreat • July 16-20, 2025
ALL SCHOLARSHIP
RECOVERY
RETREAT
The Path of Recovery:
Healing the Wounds of Addiction
with Kevin Griffin
Join us for a unique meditation retreat combining traditional Buddhist practices with recovery work. Primarily conducted in silence, the retreat focuses on insight meditation and heart practices, along with interactive exercises, lectures, and meetings. We learn to practice mindfulness in all activities, whether formal meditation, movement, speaking, listening, or eating.
This retreat we will put a special emphasis on exploring “the felt experience,” watching how emotions arise with thoughts, sensations, and social interactions. This focus helps us to avoid craving, aversion, and distraction.
Participants practice Noble Silence outside of the interactive exercises and 12-Step-style meetings. All recovery paths are welcome, whether Twelve Step, Recovery Dharma, substance, process, or relationship-oriented. The intensive nature of the retreat allows for profound personal openings, insight, and transformation. The support of the community carries us through the sometimes challenging, sometimes inspiring
elements of this deep inner work. You must be at least 30 days clean and sober in order
to attend the retreat.
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WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Residential Retreat • October 1 - 5, 2025​
New Year's Eve 2025-2026
with Dave Smith
Topic and Retreat Description Coming Soon!
Teacher Bio:
For nearly 30 years, Dave Smith has held a practice rooted in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) tradition. He was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, is a certified teacher for Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) which is combines contemporary emotion based scientific research with contemplative practices and psychology drawn from Buddhism and has studied Buddhist psychology at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS).
Dave teaches residential meditation retreats, weekly live dharma classes, online courses, and workshops. He has developed educational tools and resources, including mindfulness and emotional skills trainings, in both secular and Buddhist contexts. Dave also works with students 1:1 through his dharma mentoring program.
In 2016 he founded the Secular Dharma Foundation to foster the advancement of emotional and psychological well-being through the education and integration of mindfulness, psychology, and various therapeutic modalities. Dave has brought dharma and meditative interventions into a variety of settings including jails, prisons, youth detention centers and addiction treatment facilities. Dave lives in rural Colorado with his wife and two sons.
Explore more about Dave Smith here.
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WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
Residential Retreat • Sunday, December 28, 2025- Friday, January 2, 2026
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Weekly Practice Opportunities
Recovery Dharma Meeting
​Every Tuesday at 6:30 pm CST Online Only
Using Buddhist Practices and Principles to Recover from Addiction
You do not need to pay to attend this meeting.
Here's the Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81433309237
Recovery Dharma is a Buddhist-based, compassionate approach to addictions of ALL kinds, not just substance abuse. We will begin our meeting with a 15-20 minute meditation, followed by a topic discussion. Typically we will begin reading from the Recovery Dharma literature which can be found on their website recoverydharma.org
In our meetings we don’t identify as anything other than our first names. And we do not keep “sober time” We keep this space safe, welcoming, and non-judgmental. All are welcome here.
Weekly • Tuesdays at 6:30 pm CST
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Weekly Dharma Basics
and Meditation Practice
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Come sit with us every Sunday online. We sit in meditation and and learn about the Dharma together.
Keep a consistent meditation practice and learn about how these ancient teachings are relevant to your life.
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Beginner friendly, all are welcome.
Meditation and Dharma Share • Sundays at 6pm - 7pm CST
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