Mobile Community Meditation and Retreat Center aka Buddhist Boondockers

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Nomadic

What we do

Mobile Community Meditation and Retreat Center aka Buddhist Boondockers are a group of full and part time mobile nomads living on the road and in nature practicing mindfulness and learning the Dhamma together. We meet regularly throughout the day to meditate. We discuss daily and weekly plans including if necessary to relocate. We stay mostly in the South and northwest, the coast and wherever else the wind takes us. Temperatures and climate being a primary factor.

We are currently trying to develop and create a strong more coherent Sangha/community. Stacey, the creator of the group has been meditating and studying Buddhism for over 25 years. She has studied under some of the most prominent Buddhist scholars and Meditation teachers like Bhikhu Bodhi, Bhante Gunarantana (Bhante G) and Sayadaw U Tejaniya to name a few. She’s been in both the Ch’an (Zen) and Theravada tradition and has traveled and lived in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to further her knowledge and practice. Stacey has been teaching meditation since 2018 and started leading retreats in person and online since 2021. Stacey is an extremely dedicated Buddhist practitioner, and nothing gives her more pleasure than sharing what she’s spent decades learning with others, especially when it helps create community.

Buddhist Boondockers has plans to acquire land in the future, and create places where others can stay, study and practice together while inviting monastic and lay teachers to share their knowledge.

Our Vision

  • Mobile Community Meditation and Retreat Center aka Buddhist Boondockers is a mobile nomadic mindfulness community who stay and travel together while maintaining their mindfulness practice. We are currently 100 % mobile but looking to purchase land where we can park our mobile homes and live sustainably while continuing to maintain our mindfulness practice in community.
  • Our Mission

  • Mobile Community Meditation and Retreat Center aka Buddhist Boondockers is a mobile nomadic mindfulness community who stay and travel together while maintaining their mindfulness practice. We are currently 100 % mobile but looking to purchase land where we can park our mobile homes and live sustainably while continuing to maintain our mindfulness practice in community.
    • Community type
    • Ecovillage
    • Spiritual Retreat Centers
    • Activities
    • Others
    • 10 Total members
    • Open to new members
    • Open to visitors
    • Open to volunteers
    Total
    10

    How to join

    First step is to reach out to Stacey, and then she’ll forward the guidelines and a questionnaire.. if it’s a good fit she’ll then forward the coordinates/location

    Basic expectations or agreements for members

    If you’d like to visit, message Stacey and she’ll send you the guidelines and questionnaire.. if it’s a good fit she’ll forward the coordinates

    Primary decision-making authority

    • Single Leader or Founding Couple

    One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

    Governance structure

    • Collaborative/Horizontal

    Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

    Economic model

    • Independent Finances

    Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

    Economic scenarios for this community

    • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

    Additional economic information

    Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
    We do not share economics, but that may change in the future as we grow our community. At the moment we have a weekly potluck

    Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

    Fire pit, Recreational vehicles, We’re fully mobile/nomadic. We each own our own RVs, vans, cats buses.. we park on BLM and national forest.. and occasionally when necessary or traveling at rest stops and establishments that allow overnight parking

    Frequency of communal meals

    • About once a week

    Substance use culture

    • Substance use is prohibited in the community
    • Religions
    • Buddhist

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    Location

    • California, United States

    Mobile Community Meditation and Retreat Center aka Buddhist Boondockers

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