Insight Meditation and The Direct Path to Liberation (250R21)

Registration open until end of the day (Pacific Time) on April 18, 2021.  A waiting list will be created if the retreat fills early.

Description:
The great Webu Sayadaw challenged his students, “Some of you may have been practicing for twenty or thirty years and some even longer. But just examine yourselves. Have you really, having established yourselves in complete effort, fulfilled one single day in practice? Have you?”

Retreat is a precious opportunity to cultivate mindfulness in an uninterrupted manner, taking every moment of the day and every arising experience as the very path of practice. In this online, home retreat we will cultivate mindfulness of body, feeling tone, mind, and mind-objects while walking, standing, sitting, lying down, while talking with others, remaining silent, and attending to our home duties. Let’s see what happens when we give ourselves over wholeheartedly to the simple practice that the Buddha called, “The direct path for the purification of beings… for attainment of the true way, for the realization of Nibanna.”

Schedule (schedule subject to change; all times listed in Pacific Time)

Opening Day
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tech “Open House” (Optional)
2:45 pm Arrive and Settle
3:00 – 5:00 pm Retreat Opening
5:00 pm Close of Day

Main Days
6:00 – 7:00 am Morning Meditation
7:00 – 8:15 am Meal Break and Self-Practice (off Zoom)
8:15 – 9:15 am Morning Instruction and Guided Meditation
9:15 – 10:00 am Walking Meditation/Mindful Movement
10:00 – 10:45 am Stationary Meditation
10:45 – 11:30 am Walking Meditation/Mindful Movement (Small Group Practice for some)
11:30 – 12:00 pm Stationary Meditation
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch and Self-Practice
1:30 – 1:50pm Optional Q/A
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Guided Stationary Meditation
3:00 – 3:45 pm Walking Meditation/Mindful Movement
3:45 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 – 5:00pm Dharma Talk (end of instruction for the day)

Closing Day
6:00 – 7:00 am Morning Meditation
7:00 – 8:15 am Meal Break and Self-Practice (off Zoom)
8:15 – 11:00 am Retreat Closing Session

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.