Unfortunately, that seems to be happening a lot lately. Numbers and support were not that great before covid and then with that, many had to just shut down for good.Silent Bob wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 6:03 pm In a brief update, I'm still Silent Bob, more or less, and after seven years I'm still in Bellingham. As it turned out, B'ham is hardly a dharma hotspot; the town's three dharma centers (Shambhala,the Zen center and Insight Meditation have all closed down after prolonged financial and membership struggles during the worst of covid, as did the beautiful Sakya retreat center on one of the nearby islands. I've met only one (1) other vajrayana practitioner in the years I've been here, and learned that if I can't talk dharma with anyone here I actually miss talking to people about trucks and horses, though trash-talking the gummint is still not very interesting.
It's good I had decades of solo practice before coming here because it seems to be my fate to be a solitary practitioner.
Chris
I see you're not too far from Seattle, maybe about 80 miles or so. You could always travel down there, not regularly, but perhaps for some programs once in a while.