Concentration, Jhana, and Breath: Retreat in Northern California
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RETREAT: MAY 7 – 17, 2024
This retreat will utilize the breath as the primary meditation object and will encourage the development of meditative skills that lead to deep concentration (samadhi) and insight (vipassana). Daily group instructions will focus on the sixteen steps in the Anapanasati Sutta as a route […]
Living Without Enemies: An Online Study Weekend Retreat
REGISTER: Now – Jun 25
RETREAT: Jun 28 – 30, 2024
The Buddha said, “The world may quarrel with me, but I do not quarrel with the world.” How can we live our lives without hate—without making anyone into an enemy?
This program will use both sutta study and meditation practice to explore […]
Stages of Insight: An Online Weekend Retreat
REGISTER: Now – Nov 9, 2023
RETREAT: November 10 – 12, 2023
This at-home online weekend retreat will explore the traditional map of Buddhist insight meditation practice known as the Sixteen Insight Knowledges. We will see how contemplating experience as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self develops through a series of knowledges that culminate […]
Mindfulness of Death: An Online Weekend Retreat
REGISTER: Now – October 6
RETREAT: October 7 – 9, 2022
Online weekend retreat with Shaila Catherine is hosted by the Dharma Zephyr Sangha in Nevada. All are welcome.
“Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.”
– Anguttara […]
Nourishing Seven Factors of Awakening: An Online Weekend Retreat
REGISTER: Now – Jan 11, 2023
RETREAT: Jan 13 – 15, 2023
This at-home online weekend retreat will nourish seven qualities that prepare the mind for awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. These Seven Awakening Factors mature into a bright, balanced, and peaceful mind that is imbued with […]
Beyond Distraction: 10-night Retreat in Georgia
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RETREAT: August 29 – September 8, 2022
Mental restlessness is an insidious and pervasive hindrance that most practitioners struggle to overcome. We can refine our skills for working with the modes of thinking that distract us from being mindful: critical thoughts, planning, worrying, lustful thoughts, judging, memories, internal commentaries, to […]
Mirror of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Mind
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