Your Life is Your Practice
Teacher
Narayan Helen Liebenson
When
April 5-8, 2018
Where
Galilee Centre
Arnprior, ON
Cost
$390 / $440 / $490
Deposit: $195
Insight meditation (vipassana in Pali, the language of the original Buddhist teachings) is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body process. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principles of our lives.
The Buddha first taught vipassana over 2,500 years ago. The various methods of this practice have been well preserved in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism. TNI retreats are all rooted in this ancient and well-mapped path to awakening, and draw on the full spectrum of this tradition’s lineages.
This silent retreat is suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators. An optional daily period of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement will be offered by Janet Maxwell.
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Teacher
Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center and has been teaching at the Center since it opened in 1985. Narayan is also a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She is the author of When Singing, Just Sing: Life as Meditation and is a regular contributor to Buddhadharma: A Practitioner's Quarterly. Her training includes over 30 years in the Theravada tradition as well as in Chan with the late Master Sheng Yen.
Registration Information
LOCATION: Galilee Centre, 398 John Street North, Arnprior, Ontario
http://www.galileecentre.com/
ARRIVAL TIME: 3:30-5:30 pm, Thursday, April 5. The retreat will conclude before lunch on Sunday, April 8. Everyone is welcome to stay for lunch.
COST: TNI is dedicated to offering affordable rates to all. TNI retreat fees are on a sliding scale basis that allows participants to pay according to individual means. Fees do not include compensation for the teachings, and teachers rely on the generosity of retreatants for a sustainable income. There is an opportunity to offer dana (donations) to the teachers at the end of each retreat. The deposit is included in all of our fees.