Welcome to Khao Tham Insight Meditation Center
Wat Khao Tam is open for the Insight Meditation from the 10th to the 20th of every month.
You are also welcome to come and meditate by yourself at Khao Tham any time.
Real-life Buddhism practice is about caring for our retreat center …
Read about donating to help keep Khao Tham going:
When you visit the Center, the Temple, the Viewpoint, please keep in mind that your enjoyment of the beautiful painting of the temples, the electric lights and fans, maintained roads and buildings … in fact, everything … is paid for only by what comes in the Donation Box at the dining hall.
It is Thai tradition to support temples in this way — there is no foundation or outside patron as is done in the West. Please help to support your experience here.
Real-life Buddhism practice is about caring for others …
Read about mindfulness of the breath with masks:As much as we would like it to be, the Covid pandemic is not over. And older people (your teachers!) are at much higher risk of dying from Covid. Please protect everyone around you as well as yourself, and wear N95 respirator (mask) at all times at Khao Tham, Even though vaccinated, we can still be carrying and spreading the virus to others.
Here are the protective measures — vaccination, N95 respirator (mask), distancing — at two other retreat centers:
☸ Manda Dhamma
☸ Insight Meditation Center
Thank you for caring.
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Thank you 🙏
Real-life Buddhism practice is about caring for others …
Thoughts about mindfulness with public events:
In this time of COVID pandemic, the action of most metta may be to not attend retreat at all. Why help to spread the virus? How much better would it be to protect everyone?
Mindful and metta action can be to stay away from groups, keep yourself in one place and minimise contact with anyone so as not to spread the virus. Wear mask, wash hands … This is the greatest metta and meditation we can practice these days!
Of course we need company in our practice, and may wish to learn meditation, or get some teachings! You may want to consider joining a sangha online.
Thank you for caring.
— This message is from your humble webmaster, from a deep feeling of responsibility that if he is helping to promote gathering at Khao Tham, he must, by his vows in the Eight Precepts, also inform of possible consequences.
Thank you 🙏
More: Just about everything you want to know about the retreats is on this website, on the Retreat and Practices pages, and their sub-pages — including many of your frequently-asked questions!
To know the current schedule: You can see the schedule below, subscribe to the site newsfeed, check our Updates page.
Registration: There is no online or pre-registration. You must register in person at the Khao Tham Center from 8:30am-4.00pm on the first day of the retreat (10th day of the month).
Donation: All teachings and guidance are given by our teachers at no charge. However the people who supply our food and necessaries, do repairs, and more, need to make a living, so we must request a
donation
of Bt 5,000 to cover the costs of your physical needs for the ten days of retreat.
Khao Tham Meditation Retreat Schedule
Arrival and Registration | Orientation | 7-day silent meditation retreat | Post-retreat activities |
Departure day | |
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Day: | 10 8:30-11am and 1-5pm: Registration | 11 8:30-11am: Late registration 11am: Lunch 1-3pm: Orientation 5pm Silence begins |
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4am-9pm
meditation
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5:30am: Silence ends 8:30-11am Departure (optional) |
20 8:30-11am: Departure |
- Go to the daily schedule of the 7-day silent retreat.
- Learn about the Khao Tham rules and regulations, and about preparing for retreat.
- Read about meditation.
- See answers to frequently asked questions.
- See the latest updates on this website.

- The world continues and it is beautiful.
It has only put us in cages as we have done to its wildlife.
The air, water, earth, and sky without us are fine.
When we return, be reminded that we are just guests
We must consider our impact like no other generation ever has.
We must change.