Mission Statement:
Spirit Rock Meditation Center is a spiritual education and training institution whose purpose is to:

-Bring people to a depth of realization of the Buddha's path of liberation through direct experience.

-Provide the community of practitioners with inspiration and teachings to integrate and manifest wisdom and compassion in all aspects of their lives, for the benefit of all beings.

We achieve this purpose primarily by providing silent meditation retreats, and also through classes, trainings, and Dharma study opportunities for new and experienced students from diverse backgrounds. Our programs are grounded in the essence of the Buddha's teachings in the Pali discourses.

Vision Statement:
Spirit Rock Center is being created as a living mandala: a western dharma and retreat center dedicated to discovering and establishing the dharma in our lives. As a community, we dedicate ourselves to realization. Together we give birth to a new center in which the heart of wisdom can unfold through traditional Buddhist practice and its actualization in the world. We see this mandala as an interdependent form in which each facet is both a reflection of the truth and leads back to the truth. With the dharma as the core of the mandala the outer expressions include these dharma paths: retreats, right relationship, study, hermitage, integration and service.