by staff2080 | Jan 14, 2022
This is a silent retreat designed especially for the practice of Insight Meditation (vipassanā). Insight Meditation involves learning to be with experience as it is. It is the embodiment of the present moment that allows us to have the direct experience of freedom....
by staff2080 | Jan 6, 2022
The retreat will include dharma talks on the process of awakening, our resistances, how it unfolds, what changes in us in, and after, awakening. We will also learn and practice meditations that invite and support awakening, including ample time for questions and...
by staff2080 | Jan 6, 2022
Many of us live our lives as Mr. Duffy in James Joyce’s Dubliners “…a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.” Modern, dry conceptions of mindfulness do little to address this problem, failing to help people ground their...
by staff2080 | Jan 6, 2022
When we develop the qualities of wisdom and compassion, life becomes more meaningful. Yet the non-stop influences of technology, social media and other stressors can feel overwhelming, pushing us in the opposite direction. How do we navigate the world we are living in...
by staff2080 | Jan 6, 2022
The Buddha taught that we are all spinning due to our habits of greed, anger and delusion, long enough to have become wise and dispassionate about how we keep getting hooked into these cycles of suffering. What is it that we are not seeing clearly enough that keeps...
