Salmon Sangha takes its name from the inspiration of Coho Salmon who home in the Creek running through our sanctuary. Salmon are born into the wholeness of Nature in these waters. In their second year of life, the young Fish travel downstream hundreds of miles to the Pacific Ocean. After several years, the Salmon return home to spawn in the stream gravel where they were born and where, if they are able to make the final journey home, will die. Salmon are models of enlightenment. They knowingly embrace impermanence with grace and beauty as they face innumerable challenges in life.

We envision the journey of nondual teachings and practices like the lives of Salmon. Humans, too, are born into wholeness, pure awareness, yet we are often pulled by the currents of culture which impose perceptions and ways of living radically divergent from our true selves. The teachings and practices of Thich Nhat Hanh and other nondual traditions are streams of learning which return us home to presence, compassion, and right action of Nature Reality.