Without a deeper understanding or familiarity with the subtle expressions of mettā, or the alternate doorways into cultivating this profound and limitless quality, loving-kindness meditation can mislead us to binary thinking, as in: "I am loving and kind” or “I am not loving and kind." In this daylong, we will explore the various doorways into cultivating mettā, as well as the spectrum in which it can come alive in our daily lives.

With anti-Blackness being more globally known, anti-Asian sentiment at a high, and the avoidable deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, D'Andre Campbell, Jason Collins, Pierre Coriolan, George Floyd, Eishia Hudson, Bony Jean-Pierre, Nicholas Gibbs, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Tony McDade, Chantel Moore, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Caleb Tubila Njoko, Fredy Villanueva and too many others, Black, Indigenous, people of colour need a place where we can rest our hearts-bodies-minds.

This meditation retreat will offer an introduction to insight meditation and mindfulness, and explore practices that help us steady the mind, open the heart and support the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness. Guided meditations and opportunities to ask questions will make this an accessible retreat for meditators in beginning stages of practice.

This meditation retreat will offer an introduction to insight meditation and mindfulness, and explore practices that help us steady the mind, open the heart and support the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness. Guided meditations and opportunities to ask questions will make this an accessible retreat for meditators in beginning stages of practice.

During this retreat, we’ll explore practices that help us to quiet the mind and open the heart and support of the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness that is so needed in our world today. The daily rhythm of an online Insight meditation retreat includes guided and silent meditation practice, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual meditation hall and walking meditation periods, rest, mindful eating instructions for meals, Dharma talks, and small group practice discussion meetings with the teachers. 

During this retreat, we’ll explore practices that help us to quiet the mind and open the heart and support of the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness that is so needed in our world today. The daily rhythm of an online Insight meditation retreat includes guided and silent meditation practice, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual meditation hall and walking meditation periods, rest, mindful eating instructions for meals, Dharma talks, and small group practice discussion meetings with the teachers. 

The focus of this retreat is to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world. In order to help participants discover a sense of stillness and deep listening, silence will be maintained throughout the retreat except during question/answer periods and interviews with the teachers. In addition to sitting and walking meditation practice, there will be sessions of mindful movement led each day.

During this retreat, we’ll explore practices that help us to quiet the mind and open the heart and support of the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness that is so needed in our world today. The daily rhythm of an online Insight meditation retreat includes guided and silent meditation practice, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual meditation hall and walking meditation periods, rest, mindful eating instructions for meals, Dharma talks, and small group practice discussion meetings with the teachers. 

This two-day online retreat invites folks into a kinship of experience, holding the paradox of the relative plane of identity and history in balance with the Buddha’s ultimate pointing toward truth and liberation. Held in the wisdom and compassion of the Dharma, practices that help quiet the mind and open the heart and support of the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness will be shared.

With anti-Blackness being more globally known, anti-Asian sentiment at a high, and the avoidable deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, D'Andre Campbell, Jason Collins, Pierre Coriolan, George Floyd, Eishia Hudson, Bony Jean-Pierre, Nicholas Gibbs, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Tony McDade, Chantel Moore, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Caleb Tubila Njoko, Fredy Villanueva and too many others, Black, Indigenous, people of colour need a place where we can rest our hearts-bodies-minds.

This weekend retreat invites folks of the Asian diaspora into a kinship of experience, holding the paradox of the relative plane of identity and history in balance with the Buddha’s ultimate pointing toward truth and liberation.

During this retreat, we’ll explore practices that help us to quiet the mind and open the heart and support of the development of wisdom, clear seeing, and loving awareness that is so needed in our world today. The daily rhythm of an online Insight meditation retreat includes guided and silent meditation practice, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual meditation hall and walking meditation periods, rest, mindful eating instructions for meals, Dharma talks, and small group practice discussion meetings with the teachers.