SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2024
With Vicki Seglin, Paul Norton & David Haskin
Siena Retreat Center, Racine, Wisconsin
In our beloved Plum Village tradition, we often start our group practice with a chant that begins: “The Dharma is deep and lovely.” Please join us for a special Looking Deeper retreat in which we will look deeply into the beauty and power of the foundational teachings of the Buddha and Thich Nhat Hahn (who we lovingly call Thay) as a means to alleviate suffering and to create joy and ease.
At this retreat, we will deeply explore why the Buddha and Thay believed that these teachings are essential to our well-being. And, since just knowing more about these teachings is only the first step, we will focus on practicing with those teachings so that they can become embodied within us. As that embodiment unfolds, the teachings can help guide us to wisdom, awareness and ease and diminish the power of our habit energy and the suffering that habit energy leads to.
As with all the Buddha’s teachings, this embodiment deepens as we meditate using the Buddha’s directions provided in sutras such as Satipatthana, also known as the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. So we will meditate more than is typical for Plum Village retreats. In addition to sitting and walking meditation, we will practice Mindful movement, listen to talks by the facilitators and have daily group Dharma sharing sessions. We will also walk on the Earth as a sangha each day (weather permitting).
Because deep looking requires deep silence both within us and around us, this retreat will truly be in Noble Silence, which will be lovingly enforced. This retreat is appropriate for any interested practitioner.