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Retreats & Programs News

September 2013

Featured Retreat

A few rare spaces are now available for Gregory Kramer’s upcoming annual retreat at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Is one of them meant for you? We expect them to fill quickly. For information about this 8-day Insight Dialogue retreat, October 12-20, please visit:

Beneath Words: Practicing at the Boundary of Apprehension & Language
With Gregory Kramer
October 12 - 20, 2013 | Barre, MA
Meditators often fear language; it is seen as the enemy, as the garbage of a mind out of control. And yet they often spend much of their time in silent meditation lost in thoughts that take the form of inner speech. Occasionally, in deep retreat, when the mind calms down, wordless interludes may arise. They are treasured; relief at last; then, once again, the torrent of words. The battle goes on: silent sits that are not silent; a life lost in a hyper-verbal miasma. Meditation is undertaken as more of an attempt to get beyond defiling words than as a path to understanding and peace.… Continue reading →

Autumn Online Program

Metta is now registering its autumn cohort for the Introduction to Online Insight Dialogue. For information about this 8-week program, please visit:
With Janet Surrey, Lori Ebert, and Gary Steinberg
October 21 - December 16, 2013 | Online
The Introduction to Online Insight Dialogue is an eight-week offering which covers the Insight Dialogue guidelines using the Four Noble Truths as a contemplative frame. The program focuses on the core elements of Relational Dhamma practiced in an online framework, and serves as a gateway for students to later enter the Whole Life Program, Metta Programs’… Continue reading →
 

2013-14 Upcoming Retreats


Insight Dialogue And Therapeutic Presence
With Sharon Beckman-Brindley and Phyllis K. Hicks
October 3 - 8, 2013 | Hanover County, VA

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik
October 18 - 26, 2013 | Loenen, Netherlands

Insight Dialogue: Touching The World
With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Bhante Sukhacitto
October 22 - 29, 2013 | Devon, England

Embodying And Sensing: Developing The Meditative Mind In Relationship
With Mary Burns, Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi
October 30 - November 3, 2013 | Barza D’Ispra (VA), Italy

Introduction To Insight Dialogue
With Anne Michel
October 31 - November 3, 2013 | Madrid, Spain

The Strength And Challenge Of Meditating Together: Introduction To Insight Dialogue
With Bhante Sukhacitto
November 1 - 6, 2013 | Germany

The Strength And Challenge Of Meditating Together: Introduction To Insight Dialogue
With Bhante Sukhacitto
November 15 - 17, 2013 | Hanover, Germany

The Living Experience Of The Factors Of Awakening
With Gregory Kramer
December 13 - 19, 2013 | Sri Lanka

Embodying And Sensing: Developing The Meditative Mind In Relationship
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Mary Burns
January 2 - 5, 2014 | Mebane, NC

An Insight Dialogue Retreat: Cultivating Wisdom In Relationship
With Gregory Kramer and Bart van Melik
February 10 - 15, 2014 | San Diego, CA

Awakening The Wholesome
With Sharon Beckman-Brindley and Mary Burns
March 7 - 9, 2014 | Newcastle, Australia

Awakening The Wholesome
With Sharon Beckman-Brindley and Mary Burns
March 14 - 15, 2014 | Melbourne, Australia

A Mind At Peace
With Sharon Beckman-Brindley and Mary Burns
March 16 - 23, 2014 | Victoria, Australia
 
4th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Gregory Kramer and Mary Burns
May 3 - 11, 2014 | Bow, WA

Audio Teaching: speech is Action

This talk, offered by Gregory Kramer, considers speech as a world-forming action. In the Hindu and Abrahamic traditions, all things take birth in the Word. In the Buddhist tradition we have consciousness taking rise based upon volitional formations. Action, perception, and wisdom are explored as they relate to language. Please click here to listen to this audio teaching.


Testimonial

Insight dialogue, on retreat or on-line using skype, has made the dharma come alive, in my experience, again and again. It is this relational practice, with support of the ID guidelines, that has illuminated for me, the deepest hungers and offered many moments of ease and letting go of suffering. I remember saying to a teacher once, after many years of solo and silent meditation only, that "it is so much harder to remain present in relationship." ID has shown me something surprising and wonderful, that relational meditation practice, and relationship, can energize the unfolding of wisdom, compassion, and awakening. - Susan Clarion



SAVE THE DATES

Further info and registration will be posted on our website as it becomes available. Please check back regularly.


2014

May 23 – 30 | Colorado
June 13 – 17 | Minneapolis, MN
June TBD | Boston, MA
July 11 – 16 | Hot Springs, NC
September 30 – October 7 | Devon, England
October 13 – 19 | Holland
October 20 – 26 | Italy
October 31 – November 9 | Barre, MA


2015

Interpersonal Mindfulness Teacher Training
May 1 – 8 | Holland

CONTRIBUTORS

Photos for this announcement were contributed by Jen Dunbabin, Rachel Hien, and our retreat center partners.

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