Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight Retreat with Richard Shankman

[Richard Shankman]

Samadhi and Wisdom
Residential Meditation Retreat

The Practice and Path of Mindfulness, Jhana and Insight

With Richard Shankman
April 1 - 10, 2011
Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA

To Register download the application form and instructions from www.mettadharma.org

Cost: $675 (cost does not include teacher dana)

Concentration and jhana are often taught as separate practices from insight meditation.

This retreat will integrate concentration, mindfulness and insight as a single meditative path, using mindfulness of breathing as the foundational practice.

Through mindfulness of breathing the mind becomes more collected and centered, leading to deepening states of peace, clarity and calm abiding known as jhana. At the same time, awareness opens naturally into mindfulness of the body, states of the heart and the mind, revealing the four foundations of mindfulness.