Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The End of Suffering - 5 day Retreat with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
The End of Suffering
A 5-Day Non-residential Retreat with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
November 6–10, 2025 · Bodhi Path Santa Barbara
In a world of endless striving and subtle dissatisfaction, the promise of the end of suffering feels both ancient and revolutionary. This 5-day retreat offers a rare opportunity to explore that timeless truth in a deeply experiential and contemporary way — guided by former Buddhist monk, neuroscientist, and transformational Dharma teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips.
Rooted in the Buddha’s original insights yet illuminated by modern science, this retreat invites you into a direct experience of freedom — freedom from the habits of mind and heart that perpetuate stress, confusion, and self-contraction. Through meditation, inquiry, and guided dialogue, you’ll learn to recognize suffering at its subtle origins and discover practical pathways to awakening — pathways that not only bring genuine peace and clarity but activate the vast innate potential for wisdom, compassion, creativity, and resilience already within you.
Dawa Tarchin Phillips is the resident teacher of Bodhi Path Santa Barbara. Having completed two traditional three-year meditation retreats within the Vajrayana and Mahayana traditions, he is a masterful Dharma teacher, global spiritual leader, and internationally respected mindfulness and meditation expert.
Dawa will be teaching in-person for this non-residential retreat at the Bodhi Path center. Retreatants are invited to attend in-person or online.
Please note that meals are not included in the registration fee. Retreatants are welcome to bring lunch or purchase lunch from a nearby eatery. The social room will be open so that we can eat together.
Limited partial scholarships are available on a first come basis. Please contact sb@bodhipath.org with your interest, commitment, and financial need before Oct. 15.
The Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers a high quality curriculum of instruction in Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy. The Center was founded in 1997 at the direction of Shamar Rinpoche. Since then, hundreds of students have come to learn and practice in a modern, non-sectarian environment focused on authentic Buddhist teachings taught and practiced by authentic teachers. We are a diverse community of practitioners encompassing all ages and levels of practice. Dawa Tarchin Phillips is the resident teacher, and we regularly host visiting teachers.
The End of Suffering - 5 day Retreat with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
The End of Suffering
A 5-Day Non-residential Retreat with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
November 6–10, 2025 · Bodhi Path Santa Barbara
In a world of endless striving and subtle dissatisfaction, the promise of the end of suffering feels both ancient and revolutionary. This 5-day retreat offers a rare opportunity to explore that timeless truth in a deeply experiential and contemporary way — guided by former Buddhist monk, neuroscientist, and transformational Dharma teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips.
Rooted in the Buddha’s original insights yet illuminated by modern science, this retreat invites you into a direct experience of freedom — freedom from the habits of mind and heart that perpetuate stress, confusion, and self-contraction. Through meditation, inquiry, and guided dialogue, you’ll learn to recognize suffering at its subtle origins and discover practical pathways to awakening — pathways that not only bring genuine peace and clarity but activate the vast innate potential for wisdom, compassion, creativity, and resilience already within you.
Dawa Tarchin Phillips is the resident teacher of Bodhi Path Santa Barbara. Having completed two traditional three-year meditation retreats within the Vajrayana and Mahayana traditions, he is a masterful Dharma teacher, global spiritual leader, and internationally respected mindfulness and meditation expert.
Dawa will be teaching in-person for this non-residential retreat at the Bodhi Path center. Retreatants are invited to attend in-person or online.
Please note that meals are not included in the registration fee. Retreatants are welcome to bring lunch or purchase lunch from a nearby eatery. The social room will be open so that we can eat together.
Limited partial scholarships are available on a first come basis. Please contact sb@bodhipath.org with your interest, commitment, and financial need before Oct. 15.