This six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahasi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
2014-09-13 (43 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
