Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

Nanaimo,  BC 

 

Bethlehem Retreat Center

  

April 21 - 28, 2012

 

Robert Beatty

 

Assisted by Don McEachern.

 


 

Robert Beatty

is the founder and guiding teacher of the Portland Insight Meditation Community. He brings 40 years of Buddhist Dharma practice and decades of practice as a therapist to his teaching. Robert is a member of the first wave of lay Theravada Buddhist teachers who brought Buddhism from Asia to America. Robert uses humor, poetry and drumming to teach meditation for everyday life, including intimate relationships, parenting, work, and community. 

 



Blue Buddha


 

 

 

 



The Buddha taught that our essential nature is wise, loving, and compassionate.

 

The key to revealing this essential truth is the practice of meditation.  

 

For thousands of years, people have used Buddhist meditation as a technology of consciousness to free themselves from anxiety, self-criticism, depression, fear, and loneliness. 

 

You too can find relief from painful moods, the racing mind, compulsions, and psychological scripts from the past. You can embrace your deepest fears and set yourself free. Doing so will liberate you to love and forgive yourself and others. 

 

Meditation is not an escapist fantasy or a withdrawal from life. It is instead a radical acceptance of life as it is, and a diving into the vibrant heart of each living moment. 

 

Retreat will be held in "noble silence" and will include sitting and walking mediation, guided meditation and discourses, discussions, music, poetry, movement and eating meditation.

 

Individual guidance will be available as needed throughout the retreat. 

 

 This will be a day of renewal, love and resting in the beauty of our being.

 

 Suitable for long term meditators as well as those who wish to start or resuscitate a daily meditation practice. 

 

 

Listen:The Inner Experience of Retreat.

 

 

Location: Bethlehem Retreat Center

  

Dates: April 21 - 28, 2013

    

Cost: $850 

 

Registration: A deposit of $400 will reserve your place. Balance due March 21.  

 

Your generosity (Dana) is welcome to help make the teachings available to others. A basket for this purpose will be provided.  

 

Information/registration: Don McEachern ,            dmceach@telus.net   250-285-2193 

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