Twelve Things Not to Do Today:
A Half-Day Retreat on Right Action
with nico hase
Saturday, April 10, 2027 · 10 am to 1 pm Pacific time
Your values are easy to hold when nothing’s at stake.
Right Action is about all those other times. When it’s inconvenient. When no one’s watching. When the harm would be small and deniable and nobody would know but you.
The Buddha’s instructions here are concrete: don’t kill, don’t take what isn’t given, don’t betray trust through your body. Underneath them is one commitment — to stop leaving damage in your wake.
What We’ll Explore Together
In this half-day online retreat, nico explores Right Action: the body’s ethics, your conduct when it’s inconvenient, unclear, or unobserved. We’ll look honestly at how we act when no one’s keeping score, and find where there’s still room to move.
The morning begins with an opening conversation around the theme, followed by lightly guided sitting and walking practice, and closes with a dharma talk and time for questions.
A Full Path of Practice—Rooted in Community
🪴 Monthly Half-Day Retreats – This is the fourth in an annual series of eight online half-days offered by Refuge of Belonging, a dharma community rooted in presence and open to all.
🪴 The Eightfold Path – The Buddha’s eightfold path is the heart of the practice: eight interwoven factors, from view and intention to mindfulness and concentration, that together form a complete way of living and waking up.
🪴 devon + nico – Refuge of Belonging’s guiding teachers lead the series together, trading off and teaching in pairs across the year, bringing both monastic depth and a grounded, contemporary voice to the path.
What People Are Saying
“nico embodies a unique mix of experience, humor, and humility which helped make meditation accessible to me. Thanks to his generous guidance and example, I’ve been able to open more fully to the joys and mysteries of life and found a better calm in my day-to-day, too.”
— Elliot August, Microfinance exec, Austin, TX
Registration & Payment
Date: April 10, 2027
Time: 10 am to 1 pm Pacific time
Format: Online via Zoom
We offer these half-day retreats on a dana model. The suggested donation is $40 to $120 per session. We gratefully accept contributions of greater or lesser amounts, based on your resources.