Finding Grace in the Muck
We are all potential Bodhisattvas. In this weekend retreat, through formal and informal practice including chanting we can unlock this capacity and bring more grace into this world so worthy of rescue.
Courageous Hearts, Radiant Minds “Finding Grace in the Muck”
A Five-Day silent retreat at the beautiful Won Dharma Center exploring the power of brought forth by the Buddha and Bodhisattva’s to awaken our own inner strength and grace.
Finding Our True Nature in Nature
This six-day silent meditation retreat will primarily take place in the forests and meadows on the magical 180 acres of RMERC land.
A Taste of Freedom
A Taste of Freedom
Jon Aaron and Upayadhi
a day of practice
In spiritual freedom, we do not become free from events, but we become free within events. Circumstances lose their power to lacerate our minds. - Gavin Harrison
The Buddha’s Third Noble Truth tells us: there is freedom from suffering. Certainly, there have been times in our lives when we have momentarily tasted at least a glimpse of this freedom. The Buddha prescribed a path for a more enduring, if not permanent, liberation. This path is a profound prescription for how to live and, in so doing, create a world where freedom becomes possible for all.
Through cultivating wise view and intention, ethical living, and wise effort, mindfulness and tranquility, we begin to see the fruits of our practice. On this day of practice, through meditation, chanting, silence and community, will co-create a compassionate spaciousness to remind ourselves of what is already here, to reconnect with a taste of freedom that does not rely on circumstance or worldly matters. We will also explore the Buddhist teachings of non-harm and non-violence.
Interestingly, an unconditioned and liberated mind does require some basic material conditions. We can’t cultivate an unobstructed heart without what the Buddha called “requisites for practice.” Traditionally these include shelter, clothing, and access to food, clean water and medicine. In this spirit, we will be donating 20% of our proceeds to organizations offering humanitarian relief and working for lasting peace in the Middle East and the Congo.
What? A day of practice, alternating between sitting meditation, walking meditation, dharma talks, gentle movement, chanting, extended periods of silence, and a listening meditation circle.
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
As the year and all its intensity come to a close, we invite you to join us for a contemplative and spacious meditation retreat on the beautiful campus of the Dharmakaya Retreat Center for Wellbeing. Creating a nourishing pause before the demands of the holiday season and the start of a new year, we aim to rest and restore our nervous systems, enliven and deepen our meditation practice, and give ourselves the gift of a winter solstice reset.
Body as Mountain, Mind as Sky
Body as Mountain, Mind as Sky
Exploring our True Nature in Nature
A 5-Night Silent Retreat over Labor Day Weekend
with Jon Aaron and Johann Robbins
These frequently quoted phrases by the 13th Century Zen master Dogen evoke a feeling of embodied freedom and will form the basis for this retreat. So often we live as though we are separate from nature when in fact, we are nature. Most of this retreat will be outside- sitting, walking and just being in the surrounding beauty. The exquisite natural beauty of the RMEDC will provide all the support needed live into Dogen’s words.
Finding the Stillness Within
A Weekend Retreat
Finding the Stillness Within
Friday March 29-Sunday March 31
hosted by Insight Meditation of Cleveland
The theme for this retreat is Finding the Stillness Within. What happens when we drop our digital devices, cut down our sensory input and come to silence? This is what we discover on retreat. Thoughts and unhelpful emotional states that clutter the mind and are the result of our daily life start to clear away like clouds, and the stillness which is our natural state becomes our place of refuge. In this still place of refuge, wisdom and compassion can naturally arise. This mindfulness meditation weekend retreat will alternate between guided sitting meditations and various mindful movement practices with evening talks and individual teacher meetings. It is wonderful opportunity for those with limited meditation experience who have not experienced a silent retreat.
Improvising Life, a Five-Day Silent Retreat on the Sea
Improvising Life-- a Five-Day Silent Retreat at Mercy by the Sea
Madison, CT -- Sponsored by Copper Beech Institute
Our life unfolds like music from an orchestra. We respond or react depending on the tonality in any given moment. Over time, we gain a fixed interpretation of this music, and expect it to continue to unfold in a similar way according to our tastes and preferences. We are thrown off base when a discordant note arrives. Through practice, though, we learn to improvise and begin to realize that riffing off the discordant can create beauty.
This is an opportunity to renew and deepen your practice of compassion and mindfulness meditation, and live fully in a strong, supportive, and beautiful environment enhanced by silence with the support of experienced teachers.
Much of our time will be spent engaged in sitting and walking meditation with periods of mindful movement. The teachers will provide meditation instruction and guidance along with daily talks.
Silent Mindfulness Meditation Retreat at the Sienna Retreat Center, Racine Wisconsin
Join Jon Aaron and Beth Mulligan in exploring and practicing the foundational teachings of Mindfulness in a 5-night silent residential retreat. This retreat will take place at the lovely Sienna Retreat Center on the shores of Lake Michigan
Co-Sponsored by the The University Of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness and Mindful-Way Stress Reduction Programs
