Insight Meditation and The Direct Path to Liberation (250R21)
Will Kabat-Zinn, MA, Neesha Patel and Victoria Cary
April 19 - 23, 2021
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.
About the Teachers
Will Kabat-Zinn, MA
Will Kabat-Zinn, MA has been practicing meditation for over two decades and has spent extended time in silent retreat both in the US and in Burma. He is passionate about helping people put into practice and experience for themselves the liberating power of mindfulness. Will has taught meditative practices to diverse populations including , educators, […]
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Neesha Patel
Neesha is inspired by the call to awakening and started formal meditation practice in 2003. She is deeply grateful for the Buddha’s teachings and for the opportunity to learn and practice dhamma in both Asia and the US. Her practice has been influenced by numerous wonderful teachers including Sayadaw U Tejaniya, Andrea Fella, Will Kabat-Zinn, […]
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Victoria Cary
Victoria Cary is a Dhamma teacher and leader who co-founded the San Francisco Black Indigenous People of Color Insight Sangha and continues as one of its core teachers. She loves the Dhamma and is interested in supporting people in their practice by focusing on integrating Dhamma into everyday life. Her identity as a queer, bi-racial […]
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