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Practical Insight Meditation:
Awakening Conscious Awareness
A Five Day Non-Residential Meditation Retreat
Instructor: Erik Knud-Hansen
Advance registration required
In accordance with the spiritual practice of dana (generosity),
Erik offers these teachings freely
and accepts
donations
that are freely offered. The tuition listed below supports Evergreen Cove.
Tuesday-Saturday, May 11-15 8 AM-8 PM
Standard: $110, Members: $100, Sustaining: $130, Minimum: $75
The retreat will be at a private residence near Easton and enrollment is limited. Priority will be given to those enrolling for the whole retreat as instruction will be progressive.
Single days, if available:
Tuesday-Saturday, May 11-15,
8 AM - 8 PM
Standard: $30, Members: $25 (advance registration required)
Evening Meditation and Dharma talks only
Tuesday-Friday, May 11-14, 6-8 PM
$10 (advance registration required)
We will be practicing the art of silence, stillness, and sensitivity in learning to directly see the truth of who we really are, in our very own breath and being. The focus will include discerning, through mindful observation, the four primary components of being: body as material element, the feeling life, the mental life, and consciousness. W will inquire into the importance of this discernment for the purpose of liberating ourselves from the weight and burden of our own doubts, fears and other conflicted mental states. Only when one clearly sees the nature of the world of duality can one comprehend the truth of non-duality, oneness, the whole of life.
ERIK KNUD-HANSEN is a Dharma Teacher in the Buddhist lineage. He has studied and practiced widely in the various schools of Buddhism, as well as in the traditions of Taoism and Advaita Vedanta, since 1972, including a year as a monk in South Korea. He was commissioned to teach in 1984, and offers programs and retreats, as well as private instruction.
On the practice of generosity (dana)
In many traditional cultures, teachings have been offered in an open-handed manner. That is, they are offered free of charge, and in a way that makes the teachings equally accessible to all who desire to learn and grow from them. This way of offering teachings is done purely from a place of generosity, with no expectation of reciprocal exchange of any kind. The benefit of making teachings available to all is quite obvious; it is the natural extension of having benefited from them ourselves.
This donation-based system of offering classes asks that participants pay at a level that is appropriate for them. What is appropriate? This is where the practice of generosity can become truly transformative as we are asked to confront our relationships with the concepts of value, generosity, and support.
