October 14 – December 31 2018
October 23 – December 4: co-teaching six-week retreat IMS
Insight Meditation Society 1230 Pleasant St Barre MA 01005
phone: +1 978-355-4378
Teachers
Rebecca Bradshaw, Greg Scharf, Winnie Nazarko, Brian Lesage, DaRa Williams & Jill Shepherd
Sliding Scale Fees
Benefactor: $9,240; Sustaining: $5,710; Mid: $4,265; Base: $2,820; Scholarship: $1,850, $1,630, $1,410
Includes optional yoga once a week.
A limited number of You Choose fee spaces are available for people of color, young adults (18-32 year olds), and other experienced retreatants in financial need. This means you can establish your own retreat fee, based on your financial means. A minimum of $20 per night, or $840 for six weeks, is required. Email registration@dharma.org to apply.
https://www.dharma.org/retreat-description/?id=493
December 5-31: co-teaching one-month retreat with Caroline Jones
Forest Refuge 97 Lockwood Road Barre MA 01005
phone: +1 978-355-2063
To register:
http://www.dharma.org/meditation-retreats/forest-refuge/application-process
January-March 2019
Ten-week online course – BCBS, Massachusetts
Entering The Path: An Online Foundations Course in Early Buddhist Study and Practice
Ten weeks of engaging in early Buddhist practice and study in an intensive online community
Interested in studying the suttas but find them too complex, dense?
Not sure how to apply them to your practice?
This online course offers:
Ten weeks of video lectures, roughly six 10-minute segments per week. Easy to follow sutta readings are displayed as they are read by the teachers.
Connect in small groups with guiding teacher Jill Shepherd weekly for one hour. Meetings are conducted through video conferencing software on computer, mobile, or tablet.
One-on-one meetings via video conference with Jill are available throughout the program for personal practice explorations.
Dates:
October 1 – Applications open
December 1– Applications close
December 15– Initial accepted notified
December 15- January 15 – Interview period, payment and registration on a rolling basis. Waitlisted students are contacted during this period.
January 20 – Course material begins
March 30 – Course closes
To register:
https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/online-programs/entering-the-path/
April 2019
April 13-20: co-teaching seven-day retreat with DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight
Location: Camp Samish 11633 Scott Road Bow, WA 98232
Phone: +1 360 766 8125
More information:
https://bellinghaminsight.org/retreats/
June 2019
June 8-9: two-day Insight Dialogue workshop (non-residential)
Mariposa Sangha
Location: TBA Austin, TX
More information:
https://mariposasangha.org/contact-us/
September – December 2019
September 10 – October 22: co-teaching six-week retreat IMS
Insight Meditation Society 1230 Pleasant St Barre MA 01005
phone: +1 978-355-4378
Prerequisite is three silent retreats of a week or more with recognized insight meditation teachers. Please document this experience, including teachers’ names, dates and length of courses when registering.
Includes optional mindful movement.
A limited number of You Choose fee spaces are available for people of color and young adults (18-32 year olds) in financial need. This means you can establish your own retreat fee, based on your financial means. A minimum of $20 per night, or $840 for six weeks, is required. Email registration@dharma.org after December 5 to apply.
Teachers:
Carol Wilson, Guy Armstrong, Annie Nugent, Brian Lesage, Jill Shepherd
Assistants:
Devin Berry, Dawn Scott
November 1-30: co-teaching one-month retreat with Caroline Jones
Forest Refuge 97 Lockwood Road Barre MA 01005
phone: +1 978-355-2063
To register: https://www.dharma.org/retreats/forest-refuge/application/
December 3-8: five-day study and practice retreat
Liberation through Non-Clinging: An Exploration of the Five Aggregates
The goal of the Buddhist path is sometimes defined as “liberation through non-clinging.” But what is meant by clinging? In the First Noble Truth, the Buddha proclaimed that there is dukkha (suffering, stress, distress, unsatisfactoriness), and he defined dukkha in short as “the five clinging-aggregates” of form, feeling-tone, perception, formations, and consciousness. To have any possibility of experiencing the freedom of non- clinging, we first need to understand the nature of our clinging more fully. In this five-day retreat, we will explore the five clinging-aggregates through a combination of silent sitting and walking meditation, sutta study, and interpersonal practice in pairs and small groups using the guidelines of Insight Dialogue. Practicing in solitude and together, we can directly experience not only the dukkha of clinging, but the possibility of its release.
Learning Intentions:
To cultivate an experiential understanding of how clinging to the five aggregates causes suffering; how to free oneself from these different areas of clinging; to have new understanding about how clinging/identification constructs a sense of self; and how releasing clinging brings insight into anatta or not-self.
Location: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
149 Lockwood Road Barre MA 01005
phone: +1 978-355-2347
Cost: Sliding scale
Sustaining: $895 Mid Level (Actual Cost): $695 Supported: $545 Non-Resident: $325
To register: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/course/liberation-through-non-clinging-an-exploration-of-the-five-aggregates/
