MINDFULNESS: THE PATH TO FREEDOM

MINDFULNESS: THE PATH TO FREEDOM

This retreat provides guidance in the practice of Mindfulness meditation as a direct path to complete freedom. We will learn to cultivate awareness of the breath, body, sounds and other direct experiences, including the full range of emotion and an increasing sense of peace and freedom in all conditions.

The daily schedule will include sitting and walking meditation as well as practice cultivating mindfulness during daily activities such as eating, resting, and work meditation. There will be an instruction period in the morning, movement meditation (yoga or qi gong), a dharma talk in the evening, and some light chanting at the end of the day.

This retreat is open to all. Those who are new to the practice of Mindfulness meditation are especially welcome.

Tempel Smith began practicing intensively at Insight Meditation and metta retreats in 1989 under the guidance of Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. He spent a year as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw and has been teaching since 1997. He is the founder of BASE House, a collective of Buddhist activists and service providers in San Francisco. Tempel has completed the four year teacher-training program run by Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. He also leads pilgrimages to Thailand, Burma, and India.