23 – 25 September 2016
Love without Barriers: An Introduction to Loving-kindness Meditation
The beautiful spirit of mettā (loving-kindness) is without limit and without barriers. In this weekend retreat, Ven. Virañani will offer a simple and direct method to develop and strengthen the heart’s natural capacity to connect with others with kindness. We will explore the spirit of mettā together, in formal practice and in the many ways that the mettā meditation can be applied in everyday life.
This retreat is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.
COST: $140 to Te Moata and Dana for the teacher.
25 September – 2 October 2016
Metta for Insight Meditation
Loving-kindness and insight meditation are different practices with the same goal: to free the heart from clinging and pain. They powerfully support each other, allowing us to deeply connect with ourselves, with each other, and with the deepest truths of the way things are.
In this week Ven. Virañani will share the traditional Burmese teachings of mettā for vipassanā in a way that is both accessible and immediately practical in everyday life.
COST: $490 to Te Moata and dana to the teacher
Ven. Vīrañāṇi began to practice meditation in 1979. In 2003, after several years spent working at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA, and training in in the Thai Forest tradition, she began a four-year period devoted to intensive practice in the Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. She took permanent ordination in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita on New Year 2006, and now resides at the Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre North of Yangon. She teaches loving kindness and vipassanā meditation retreats in Burma, Europe, and Australia. In 2008 she co-founded Metta In Action, a charity devoted to offering Burmese people in need the means and skills to help themselves. She is passionate about the Dhamma, about nature, and about using both to help others rediscover the intrinsic goodness in all beings.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.