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Cloud Mountain Retreat

Cloud Mountain Retreat is a non-sectarian Buddhist center located in southwest Washington. Situated on 15 acres of wooded land approximately 60 miles north of Portland Oregon, Cloud Mountain was conceived and built with the goal of providing groups and individuals

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Posted in Locations

Spring 2014

Spring has come to the Retreat, with all of it’s glorious wind and night/day temperature changes. Fortunately, none of this stops the caretakers from trimming trees, placing plants back outside and cleaning the outside like busy bees. The spider plants

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Posted in Gardening and Nature, Informaitional

A Tale of Two Views

As the week comes to an end and I look back over the last year or so, I notice that the combination of Haiku, travels, and such seems to be lacking something.  While contemplating on this, I realized that if

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Posted in Informaitional, Koans, Musings