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Friday, October 2 from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturday, October 3 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 4 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Things feel solid. The self feels solid, the moment feels solid, the trouble we're in feels most solid of all. And yet, upon inspection, experience keeps refusing to hold still. This is what the Buddha pointed to when he taught emptiness: the discovery that what seems fixed is being quietly assembled, moment after moment.
This is a mostly-silent weekend of meditation, lightly guided, with short talks and conversation to open and close each day, and time in between to let the body and breath show us what's here when we stop insisting on solidity.
nico hase comes to this from the early Buddhist tradition; Tasudo Nicole Baden Roshi teaches in the Zen tradition. Two lineages, two ways of pointing to emptiness.
No prior meditation experience required. Come and see for yourself.
COST: The Dharma Center operates on the gift economy and the cost of the daylong is on a two-part sliding scale. The fee that you offer through the registration system ($150, $225, $300, or $375 or scholarship options of $75 or $0) supports our non-profit, which pays the costs of the website, administration, building, etc. In keeping with our 2,600-year-old tradition, the teachers of the retreat are not compensated but rather share the teachings freely. In turn, you are invited into the practice of dana, or generosity, a gift economy system that has been alive since the time of the Buddha. At the end, or at any time during the weekend, you are invited to make a donation to support the teachers in continuing their valuable work. Donations in any amount whatsoever are gratefully received, and the practice of generosity is always elective.
DATES: Friday, October 2 from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 3 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 4 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Durango Dharma Center, 1800 East Third Avenue, Suite 109 in Durango.
QUESTIONS: If you have questions, please reach out to Emily at [email protected] or 970-426-8983.
ABOUT NICO HASE: nico lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time.
His practice has been enriched by multiple traditions. Through devon, he was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism and studied in the three yana system with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Drubgyu Tenzin and others. Most recently, he and devon completed a three-year meditation retreat, including the full cycle of Shangpa teachings and transmissions.
He currently mentors mindfulness teachers in Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, guides groups for Cloud Sangha, teaches online and in-person retreats and speaks with students in one-to-one mentoring. He primarily teaches in the Insight Meditation tradition, though he continues to draw from Zen, Vajrayana and various schools of Western Psychology. He is the author with his wife, devon, of How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life and This Messy Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership.
ABOUT TATSUDO NICOLE BADEN: Tatsudo Nicole Baden is the Abbot of the international non-profit organization Dharma Sangha and its two Zen Practice Centers, the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA and the Zen Buddhist Center in the Black Forest, Germany. Nicole is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi in the Soto Zen Lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 2001 and received Dharma Transmission in 2017.
Nicole graduated as a psychologist from the University of Oldenburg in 2008. She also trained at the ‘School for Body Mind Centering’ for four years. She was a member of the council of the German Buddhist Union from 2013-2019 and is currently serving on the advisory council of the mindfulness oriented MBSR Association. She has been living and practicing either at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center or at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald (ZBZS) in Germany since 2009.
With a background in psychology and training in body-based awareness, Nicole brings together academic insight and embodied experience. Her teaching focuses on making ancient Zen wisdom relevant and applicable in everyday life.
DETAILS & REGISTRATION: https://www.durangodharmacenter.org/events/#!event/register/2026/10/2/emptiness-a-nonresidential-weekend-retreat-with-nico-hase-tatsudo-nicole-baden-roshi
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