Start Your Week Well
with the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre community
Mondays 7:30-8:00 am AEST
Mondays 9:30-10:00 am NZT
Sundays 2:30-3:00 pm US PST
Sundays 5:30-6:00 pm US EST
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Two-day Insight Dialogue workshop – Sydney
16-17 March
Cultivating the heart of freedom
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings the mindfulness and tranquility of traditional silent meditation into our experience with others. Resting on the foundation of traditional Buddhist teachings, this practice offers a way to integrate our dedication to a path of wisdom and compassion with our relational lives.
In this two-day workshop, we will explore the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue in conjunction with the classical Buddhist teachings. Working together in pairs, we will use the power of relational meditation practice to understand the habits of heart and mind that lead to stress and distress, and how to free ourselves from those habits so that we can live with greater ease and happiness.
We will explore the Four Noble Truths and the four brahmavihāra heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity, as supports for releasing the different obstacles that often show up along the path to freedom. As we learn how to overcome these obstacles, we’re able to come more fully alive, to live with greater ease, happiness, and peace, and to connect with the wisdom and compassion that are our true nature.
This workshop is best suited to people who have some experience of insight/vipassanā/mindfulness meditation, but prior Insight Dialogue experience is not required.
Teachers:
Both teachers are members of the Insight Dialogue teaching community and offer relational meditation and silent insight retreats internationally.
Jill Shepherd http://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com
Elizabeth Faria https://bethfaria.com/
Food: Please bring your own lunch. Teas and herbal teas will be supplied.
Equipment: Some chairs will be available, but please bring your own meditation cushion or bench if you have one, and a shawl or blanket.
Times and days: 9:30-4:30 pm Saturday and Sunday 16-17 March
This retreat is kindly supported by Sydney Insight Meditators
NOTE: In support of our group practice, please arrive 15 minutes early for a prompt start, and make a commitment to stay for the full day, each day
Cost: $100 registration fee + dāna/donation* to the teachers
Cancellation policy:
Full refund (minus a $25 admin fee) up to two weeks before the event starts.
No refunds after Friday 1 March 2024.
To register: here
* The registration fee covers a contribution to the venue hire, the teachers’ travel expenses, and admin costs associated with running the event.
In keeping with Buddhist tradition, the teachings are freely offered on a dāna basis which means the teachers are not paid to offer this workshop. Instead, they rely on the generosity of the participants to help them continue to share their teachings with others, and there will be an opportunity at the end of the workshop to offer donations to support their ongoing teaching.
Jill Shepherd: insight meditation 