Green Mountain Meditation Center at Serenity Central of New England

06/17/2026

🌿 Stillness & Awakening: A Mindfulness & Yoga Retreat 🌿
A Weekend of Meditation, Movement, Nature & Inner Peace
Organized by Serenity Central of New England
Guided by Bhante Rathana & Yoga Instructor Loretta Richardson
📅 June 26 – 28, 2026
💰 $300 (includes lodging & all meals)
✨ Step away from the busyness of daily life and enter a space of stillness, healing, and awareness. This retreat offers a gentle journey inward through meditation, yoga, nature immersion, and mindful community living.
Participants will be supported in cultivating clarity, compassion, and inner peace in a peaceful natural setting.
🧘‍♂️ What to Expect:
• Guided Meditation & Noble Silence
• Gentle Yoga & Yin Practice
• Nature Hikes & Mindful Walking
• Sound Bath Relaxation
• Dhamma Reflections on Compassion
• Community Meals & Mindful Living
• Closing Circle & Sharing of Blessings
🌿 Retreat Experience:
This weekend is designed for deep rest and renewal. Through silence, movement, and awareness, participants reconnect with body, mind, and nature—returning home with greater balance and understanding.
Whether you are new or experienced in meditation, all are welcome.
💛 May this retreat support the arising of mindfulness, compassion, and inner peace in all who attend.
📍 Organized by: Serenity Central of New England
🙏 Guided by: Bhante Rathana & Loretta Richardson

06/12/2026

06/08/2026

🌿📖 Invitation to Study the Language of the Buddha – Pāli Class 2A📖🌿

The words of the Buddha have guided countless beings toward wisdom, peace, and liberation for over 2,600 years. Now is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding by learning to read the Buddha’s teachings in the original Pāli language.

🪷 Pāli Class 2A: Sutta Reading
📅 Start Date: July 2, 2026
🕰️ Every Thursday
• 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pacific Time (PT)
• 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern Time (ET)

💻 Join from anywhere via Zoom

This course is taught by Venerable Bhante Rathana, a Theravāda monk from Sri Lanka who has devoted many years to forest meditation, scriptural study, and sharing the Dhamma with sincerity and compassion. Through this course, students will gain confidence in reading Pāli suttas and develop a deeper connection with the Buddha’s original teachings.

📚 Whether you are continuing your Pāli studies or taking the next step in your journey, all dedicated students are warmly welcome.

🔗 Register here: [https://bit.ly/Pali2A](https://bit.ly/Pali2A)
(Or scan the QR code on the flyer.)

May this study of the Buddha’s words bring wisdom, clarity, and peace to your life, and may the merits be shared with all beings.

🙏 Sabbe Sattā Bhavantu Sukhitattā
May all beings be happy and well.

🌿🪷🙏

06/08/2026

🌿📖 A Beautiful Opportunity to Learn the Language of the Buddha📖🌿

With great joy, we warmly invite you to join our new Pāli 1A Class, specially designed for beginners who wish to explore the language in which the Buddha’s teachings were originally preserved and transmitted.

🪷 Pāli 1A – Open to All (No Prerequisite Required)
📅 Starting July 7, 2026
🕰️ Every Tuesday
• 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pacific Time (PT)
• 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern Time (ET)

💻 Attend from anywhere via Zoom

This course is offered by Venerable Bhante Rathana, a respected Theravāda forest monk from Sri Lanka whose life has been dedicated to meditation, scriptural study, and sharing the Dhamma with kindness, clarity, and wisdom.

Whether you are a long-time practitioner, a student of Buddhism, or simply curious about the Buddha’s teachings, this class provides a wonderful foundation for understanding the Pāli language and connecting more deeply with the original words of the Buddha.

📚 No previous knowledge of Pāli is required.
🌱 Beginners are especially welcome.

🔗 Register here: [https://bit.ly/Pali-1A](https://bit.ly/Pali-1A)
Or scan the QR code on the flyer.

May this opportunity to study the Buddha’s language deepen wisdom, strengthen faith, and bring lasting benefit to all who participate.

🙏 "One who studies and practices the Dhamma walks the path to freedom."

May all beings be happy, peaceful, and free from suffering.

🪷📖🙏🌿

05/30/2026

🌿🙏 The Bodhisattva Vow 🙏🌿

The Bodhisattva's path is the path of boundless compassion—the heartfelt aspiration to work for the welfare, happiness, and liberation of all beings.

May we cultivate a heart that wishes:

✨ To be a source of healing for the sick.
✨ To be food and drink for the hungry and thirsty.
✨ To be shelter for the weary.
✨ To be a guide for those who have lost their way.
✨ To be a lamp for those who seek light.
✨ To be a bridge across suffering.
✨ To be a friend to all beings.

As Shantideva so beautifully expressed:

"May I be a guard for those who are protectorless, a guide for those who journey on the road. For those who wish to cross the water, may I be a boat, a raft, a bridge."

May the awakened heart of compassion arise within us. May our thoughts, words, and actions become a blessing to the world.

May all beings be free from suffering.
May all beings be peaceful.
May all beings awaken to wisdom and compassion.

🪷 With Metta,
Green Mountain Monk 🏔️🙏

05/30/2026

🪷 Happy Vesak Day 2026 🪷
Buddhist Era 2570

Namo Buddhaya. 🙏

Today, Buddhists around the world joyfully celebrate Vesak, commemorating the three most sacred events in the life of the Blessed Buddha — His Birth, Enlightenment, and Parinibbāna.

More than 2,600 years ago, the Buddha illuminated the world with the timeless path of wisdom, compassion, mindfulness, and inner peace. His teachings continue to guide countless beings toward freedom from suffering and the cultivation of a peaceful heart.

On this blessed day, let us reflect upon the Buddha's noble qualities and renew our commitment to living with kindness, generosity, patience, and compassion toward all beings.

May we cultivate loving-kindness instead of hatred, understanding instead of division, and wisdom instead of ignorance.

As we light lamps and offer flowers, may we also awaken the light of wisdom within our own hearts.

🌸 May all beings be free from suffering.
🌸 May all beings be healthy and safe.
🌸 May all beings be peaceful and happy.
🌸 May all beings progress on the path to liberation.

Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful, and blessed Vesak Day.

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! 🙏🪷✨

05/29/2026

The Buddha taught that when humanity declines in morality, compassion, and wisdom, the world experiences great suffering. In Buddhist teachings, there are three major periods of destruction and hardship known as the Three Antara-Kalpas:

1️⃣ Śastra Antaḥkalpa — The Age of Weapons
A time when hatred, anger, violence, and conflict dominate society. Human beings lose compassion and begin harming one another through war, cruelty, and division.

2️⃣ Durbhikṣa Antaḥkalpa — The Age of Famine
A time of hunger, poverty, food scarcity, and suffering caused by greed, selfishness, and imbalance in society and nature.

3️⃣ Roga Antaḥkalpa — The Age of Disease
A period marked by widespread sickness, epidemics, fear, and physical suffering affecting countless beings.

These teachings are not meant to create fear, but to awaken wisdom and responsibility within humanity. The Buddha explained that collective suffering arises when greed, hatred, and delusion grow stronger in the world.

Today, we can clearly see many of these conditions appearing around us — conflict, environmental destruction, loneliness, division, mental suffering, disease, and uncertainty. More than ever, the world needs compassion, mindfulness, wisdom, loving-kindness, and inner peace.

The solution taught by the Buddha is timeless:
🌿 Practice generosity
🌿 Live ethically
🌿 Cultivate mindfulness
🌿 Develop compassion
🌿 Train the mind through meditation
🌿 Let go of hatred and greed

True peace in the world begins with peace within ourselves.

As the Buddha taught:
“Hatred is never overcome by hatred. Hatred is overcome only by love. This is an eternal law.”

May we all work together to create a world rooted in kindness, wisdom, harmony, and compassion for all beings. 🪷🙏

05/28/2026

05/23/2026

Everything is beautifully set up and ready for the joyful celebration of Vesak — the Blessed Buddha’s Birthday Celebration — along with the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Serenity Central Spiritual Library. 🪷🌸🙏

With hearts filled with gratitude and happiness, we warmly welcome everyone to join us for a day of meditation, blessings, Dhamma, peace, harmony, and community fellowship.

May this sacred gathering bring wisdom, compassion, joy, and peace to all beings. Thank you to everyone whose loving kindness, hard work, and dedication made this beautiful event possible.

All are welcome. 🙏✨