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On this Meditate.io week-long retreat, December 2 - 9th, 2017, we’ll be focusing on the development of wisdom through mindfulness practice and the cultivation of love through heartfulness practice. Together, these two styles of practice form The Heart of Insight.
This will be a meeting of the newly formed Asheville Heart of Insight Community. During this meeting we’ll be practicing together, offering a short teaching, & opening up space for conversation.
Tonight Led By: Emily Horn and Vincent Horn
This will be a meeting of the newly formed Asheville Heart of Insight Community. During this meeting we’ll be practicing together, offering a short teaching, & opening up space for conversation.
Tonight Led By: Emily Horn and Vincent Horn
On this Day-Long Retreat we’ll explore both the practice of mindfulness meditation (“noticing what you’re sensing in real-time”) and awareness meditation (“simply being”).
This will be a meeting of the newly formed Asheville Heart of Insight Community. During this meeting we’ll be practicing together, offering a short teaching, & opening up space for conversation.
Tonight Led By: Emily Horn and Vincent Horn
This will be a meeting of the newly formed Asheville Heart of Insight Community. During this meeting we’ll be practicing together, offering a short teaching, & opening up space for conversation.
Tonight Led By: Emily Horn and Vincent Horn
An intensive retreat hosted by Buddhist Geeks. We will focus on concentration, inquiry, and awareness practices.
Join the Buddhist Geeks for a talk, workshop, and guided practice session. We will be in Nashville, Tn soon!
In meditation we develop a tender active heart and learn to rest in awareness with potent preciousness of human existence. While we are soft at the core, we are also strong and powerful. In this teaching series we will explore how we can live without armor and masks in a healthy way.
Every October in our hometown of Camden, Maine, we bring together 600 diverse thinkers and doers from around the world to share ideas and projects that are shaping the future. The PopTech conference, a gathering for “real thinkers” (WIRED), marks your entry into the extensive PopTech community — a mix of highly motivated and curious speakers, PopTech Fellows, and other participants.
The capacity to concentrate or focus is one of the bedrock skills of the contemplative life. In this retreat we’ll focus on focus–the ability to relax the mind and unify it with whatever meditative subject we’re exploring. We’ll discuss the benefits, styles, and dimensions of concentration while establishing a practice that allows us to deepen this capacity in everyday life. We’ll also look at how to skillfully apply the concentrated mind to the development of wisdom and to our 21st century information-rich lives.
On the contemplative path we learn various skills aimed at deepening our experience of a loving awareness. In this two hour workshop we’ll focus on four skill sets traditionally referred to as the four immeasurables that are aimed at opening the heart.
On the contemplative path we learn various skill sets aimed at helping deepen our experience of mindful awareness. In this two hour workshop we’ll focus on the skills related to opening the heart. We’ll explore formal heart practices--or hacks--while also looking at how to bring that open heart into other areas of life. This workshop will be held in Asheville, NC.
One of the most powerful forms of contemplation is to work directly with a question or inquiry that has significant meaning to our lives. When we really open up to a question several things happen. One is that we drop the sense of already having the answer and knowing how things really are–this opens us to seeing and experiencing in new ways. Our minds also become bright, open, and curious–qualities which give our contemplative investigation a huge boost. Finally, as we become more comfortable with asking difficult questions, and pursuing our most important lines of inquiry, we start to become fearless in the face of not knowing–of never really having a final answer. We develop what Ajahn Chah called “the wisdom of uncertainty.”
Mind Hacking is a mindset or orientation that begins with the understanding that we can reprogram our inner operating system. In other words that we can transform our human experience--from limited identities, to blocked emotions, to old storylines--using the mind itself.
Over the course of this 2-hour interactive workshop we’ll explore the basics of the mind hacking ethos as well as practice both silent and social forms of meditation. There will be plenty of time for fine-tuning and questions as we journey into a process of hacking the mind, awakening the heart, and rebooting the world.
Is meditation something you do while sitting quietly with your eyes closed, or it something that happens in every moment of your day and in every context of your life? In this 6-week intensive Life Retreat we’ll be focusing on the process of integrating meditative practice into our daily lives so that there is no separation between life and practice. Part of this process will include developing and maintaining a regular, daily meditation practice. The other part involves bringing the momentum of that practice into new areas, so that mindful awareness permeates your life.
May Loving Kindness Arise
