This is a small, residential Buddhist intentional community organized around shared daily meditation and simple living. It is not a retreat center, monastery, or spiritual business, but a full-time home for lay practitioners who want their ordinary lives to be explicitly oriented around practice.
Residents would live in small, private, minimalist dwellings — tiny homes or simple hotel-style rooms — located near one another. Each person maintains an independent daily life (work, creative projects, relationships, responsibilities), while participating in a shared rhythm of morning and evening group meditation.
The atmosphere is intended to reflect the simplicity and quiet of a long retreat, without adopting an intensive retreat schedule or monastic hierarchy. Silence would be respected during agreed morning and evening hours, while community life outside those times remains natural and grounded.
The community is non-denominational and not tied to a specific lineage such as Zen, Theravāda, or Tibetan Buddhism. Residents may come from diverse Buddhist backgrounds, united by a shared commitment to meditation and ethical living.
Due to cost considerations, the community would likely be based abroad, potentially in Thailand or Guatemala. The financial model is shared-cost, with estimated monthly expenses around $800 per person depending on location and infrastructure. Costs would cover housing and shared operational expenses, with an emphasis on transparency.
This project is currently in the exploratory and founding stage.
This project seeks to bring together like-minded people interested in creating a community where each person leads a simple, independent life while sharing morning and evening meditation. The intention is to live quietly and intentionally—each person with their own small home or room and shared common spaces for practice and connection.
The mission is to explore whether ordinary lay life can be gently organized around awakening through shared daily practice, simplicity, and mutual support.
Community focus includes:
This is an experiment in simple living and shared practice, intended for individuals with an established meditation practice who are seeking steady community rather than intensive instruction or structured retreat programming.
The foundation will be the Buddhist precepts, followed either in full or in a way adapted to lay life. Each person will maintain their own work and income while contributing to the community’s upkeep and shared rhythm of practice. The heart of this community is a commitment to meditation, simplicity, and mutual respect.
This project seeks to bring together like-minded people interested in creating a community where each person leads a simple, independent life while sharing morning and evening meditation. The intention is to live quietly and intentionally—each person with their own small home or room and shared common spaces for practice and connection.
The mission is to explore whether ordinary lay life can be gently organized around awakening through shared daily practice, simplicity, and mutual support.
Community focus includes:
This is an experiment in simple living and shared practice, intended for individuals with an established meditation practice who are seeking steady community rather than intensive instruction or structured retreat programming.
The foundation will be the Buddhist precepts, followed either in full or in a way adapted to lay life. Each person will maintain their own work and income while contributing to the community’s upkeep and shared rhythm of practice. The heart of this community is a commitment to meditation, simplicity, and mutual respect.
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Join fee: $20000
Monthly fees/dues: $700
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
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