Please join us!
Please join us!
Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.
The fabric of life is relational whether involving sensory experience, internal perceptions, or relationships with others. We are constantly receiving sense impressions and appropriating meaning to experience. In this retreat we’ll explore how this flow of experience is often taken as a basis for an independent, solid, unchanging self.
Coming to know the ways each of our particular body/heart/minds become entangled in the selfing process, we can begin to disentangle. We will contemplate unwinding the tension and suffering of selfing and othering, individually and systemically, and taste the freedom, relief, and compassion of this falling away.
In Insight Dialogue we cultivate the stillness of concentration and the brightness of mindfulness directly in contemplation with others, allowing the heart and mind to become clear and radically present. The natural generosity of the human heart becomes a lived experience.
The retreat will be held in noble silence except for structured periods of Insight Dialogue. There will be times of silent sitting, mindful movement, and dialogue in groups of two or more, with guided contemplations. This is an opportunity to encounter Insight Dialogue for the first time and, also for experienced ID meditators to deepen their practice. Free from habitual speech, free from online communications, supported by nature, we will create a space for practice that moves wisely between words and the wordless.
Prior silent meditation experience is required. We welcome your questions about the suitability of this retreat for you. More information about Insight Dialogue can be found here where you can find a short video of Phyllis demonstrating the practice in the “Getting Started” page.