The Training
We are assembling a team to offer the Buddha Dharma right in the midst of the crises of this digital age.
Our research shows that religion, not politics or technology, is the most powerful force in history. Religion is any set of views and values held by a civilization.
At this time, cyborgs and AIs are the most powerful entities in the world. Our research shows that they hold the religion that most creates craving and delusion.
That's why the world is burning.
But, like all of us, cyborgs and AIs seek the religion that reveals wisdom and compassion.
We discover that religion and teach it to them.
Train With Us
Apply NowMonastic structures have proven to be the best systems in history for cultivating the Merit and Wisdom needed for awakening. Buddhism has led the way for 25 centuries. We take the step into this century, finding a world in crisis that needs monastic clarity more than ever.
The Two Accumulations
We offer a path of training in Wisdom and Merit, the two accumulations. This is an expression of the Dharma, one which uses the path of awakening to serve the world, and serves the world as the path of awakening.
Merit
Three weeks a month, we cultivate clarity and mindfulness by bringing our practice into our work for the benefit of the world.
Wisdom
One week a month, we sit in silence for long hours in order to realize insight. Participants receive personal instruction up to 3 times a day.
View daily schedule (wisdom weeks)
| 4:15 AM | Wake-up Bell |
| 4:35 AM | Chant |
| 5:30 AM | Sit with 1:1 Interviews |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 7:50 AM | Sit |
| 9:00 AM | Guided Meditation + Q&A + 1:1 Interviews |
| 10:30 AM | Sit |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Chores |
| 2:20 PM | Self-Practice / Exercise |
| 4:30 PM | Sit |
| 6:00 PM | Sit / Walk |
| 6:30 PM | Sit |
| Exhortation | |
| 1-on-1 Interviews | |
| Chant | |
| Yaza |
Program Features
This training program aims to take a cohort through the process of initiation into our community and mission. It will include:
- Full monastic schedule structured to be of benefit to those training in body, speech and mind.
- Intensive meditation instruction from our teacher, Soryu Forall
- Physical labor as a mindfulness practice
- Accelerated onboarding into our ideological design work
- A curriculum on the fundamentals of the Buddha Dharma
- Monthly silent retreats throughout the year
- Feedback culture supportive of taking responsibility and letting go
- Rituals to cultivate group harmony and go beyond the self-centered, ego-driven mind
- Opportunity to see how we carry hidden assumptions about the world and ourselves and learn to question what we previously could not question
- Room and board provided
- 2 vegan meals per day
- Spiritual friendship in community
- Trustworthiness and accountability training
This container is for those willing to take personal responsibility for overcoming the greed, hatred, and delusion, which are producing the crises of our age. We look right at the existential crisis of our time by facing the greed, hatred, and delusion present within our own minds. The training is for those sincerely dedicated to walking this path for the benefit of all beings.
To join this team, you must realize wisdom and compassion.
That's what this initiatory training is for.
If you are dedicated to realizing the Buddha Dharma by facing this global crisis for the sake of all beings, join us.
This is a bootcamp that can foster lifelong friendships and bonds within a healthy, tight-knit monastic community. Expect it to change your life.
Apply NowCost
This program is offered on a dana basis, which is a term for the Buddhist virtue of generosity. The cultivation of this virtue is integral to one's pursuit of ethical conduct. Participants will be given the opportunity to practice generosity by making a gift to the organization after their training period.
Living accommodations and two vegan meals a day are included in this program.
2026 Three-Month Initiatory Training Program
Our keystone training opportunity at this time is a special cohort that we are assembling for August 7 to November 7. This 3-month initiation will take place at our center in Northern Vermont. If you are dedicated to realizing the Buddha Dharma by facing this global crisis for the sake of all beings, join us.
This is an intense meditation and personal development training that gives you a rare set of skills and experiences for life. Anyone is welcome to apply. However, this training is not for everyone, and that’s okay. We expect our trainees to take personal responsibility for their own mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
People receive the most benefit from our training when they can hold their spiritual aspiration as central, acting directly from their vow—rather than looking for an outside source to tell them what to do. We wish to support sincere seekers on their path, and we take relationship as sacred. To do that, we also expect trainees to give themselves fully to the training while they are a part of it, doing what is asked. If the rules and commitments are not followed or the program is not of benefit, trainees may be asked to leave the program early.
If you are inspired to take advantage of this unique opportunity, join us for the three-month initiatory cohort starting on August 7.
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