Awakening Together Under the Bodhi Tree

This daylong retreat will introduce the meditation guidelines of Insight Dialogue and offer an opportunity to explore the possibilities of a fully engaged co-meditation practice.

We will explore the origins of suffering within relationship as well as the great potential of cultivating together in relationships the mental factors of awakening, including mindfulness, concentration, equanimity and loving kindness.  We will investigate Speaking and Listening as meditative practices held and nourished by the deep foundation of silent practice.

There will be periods of silent internal practice and relational practice of Insight Dialogue in dyads and small groups. Contemplations from the book The Buddha’s Wife: the Path of Awakening Together will be offered.  The devotional practice to particular relationships in our lives as parents, friends, partners and adult children will be explored as whole life relational practices and part of the Eightfold path.