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 this spin spinning? The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to stabilize present moment awareness so that we can begin to see how natural and impersonal all this inner and outer activity actually is. Understanding the river of experience in this way leads to a natural letting go and the releasing of the burden of attachment. This retreat will provide the supporting conditions for us to do this inner work together and to learn from the Buddha’s instructions.

The retreat will take place in Noble Silence and include talks, discussions, guided meditations, and guided mindful movement practice. The retreat is suitable for beginning and experienced meditators.

“The inner tangle and the outer tangle, these people are entangled in a tangle.
So I ask of you Gotama,
Who can disentangle this tangle?

One established in virtue, deeply knowing, developing mind and wisdom,
a cultivator ardent and discerning:
she can disentangle this tangle.
Those for whom lust and hatred,
along with ignorance have been dispelled, the arahants with impulses ended:
for them the tangle is disentangled.
Where both name and form
stop without the least remainder,
also impingement and recognition of form: it is here this tangle is cut.”
The Buddha, SN 1:23

Partial attendance is not offered on this retreat. Additionally, please consider attending this retreat only if your current life circumstances allow you to engage in an important modern renunciation practice of staying offline and off phone/text during the entire course of the retreat (some exceptions related to pressing family situations may be granted.)