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Compassion: The Unsurpassed Path of Healing, Harmony and Happiness (Away Retreat)

Friday, May 1, 2026 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 3, 2026 12:00 PM

Greene Family Camp 1192 Smith Lane Bruceville, TX, 76630 United States (map)

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Compassion: The Unsurpassed Path of Healing, Harmony and Happiness

Away Retreat in Bruceville, Texas at Greene Family Camp

Get out of the city and into your heart. Enjoy a weekend retreat on compassion in the countryside.

During the retreat we will listen to, contemplate and meditate on Buddha's advice for viewing others through our own eyes of compassion -- contemplation and meditation that will help us to recognize how we are all the same. We all face hardships and difficulties, confusion and uncertainty. Tapping in to that understanding makes our compassion for other people more profound and robust, providing us with a suitable basis for a happy and harmonious life with others.

The weekend's teachings and meditations explore The Three Principal Aspects of the Path to Enlightenment and Essential Insights into the Avalokiteshvara Sadhana, from the text Mirror of Dharma with Additions by internationally renowned Buddhist author and teacher Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

Schedule

Friday, May 1

Dinner: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Introduction: 7:30pm -9:00pm

Saturday, May 2

Breakfast: 7:00am - 8:15am
Session: 8:30am - 10:00am
Session: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Session: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Dinner: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Session: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Sunday, May 3

Breakfast: 7:00am - 8:15am
Session: 8:30am - 10:00am
Session: 10:30am - 12:00pm

Teacher

Featured

GEN WANGPO

Gen Wangpo is the Resident Teacher at KMC Texas.

Gen Wangpo has spent more than 20 years studying the skillful and compassionate teachings of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and has been teaching Dharma since 2004. Motivated by a deep commitment to helping others discover a meaningful spiritual path, Gen Wangpo inspires students to experience the transformative benefits of Buddha's wisdom.

Inspired by Venerable Geshe-la’s presentation of the teachings, Gen Wangpo shares the timeless wisdom of Kadam Dharma in ways that resonate with modern urban life. Through his clear, heartfelt, and compassionate approach, he makes profound spiritual principles both accessible and practical, motivating students throughout Texas to deepen their practice and experience genuine inner transformation.

Venue

Green Family Camp in Bruceville, TX is 1.5-2 hours from both Austin and Dallas.

Cost

Full Event: Single in a Double Room: $390
Full Event: Double in a Double Room: $295
Full Event: Dorm Lodging: $225
Full Event, no lodging, all meals: $120
Saturday only, no lodging, all meals: $95

Avalokiteshvara Sadhana: $10