The arising of anger in our lives can lead to all sorts of confusions. We can struggle with rigidity and inflexibility, hostility, righteousness, guilt, confusion, paralysis, fear and overwhelm – in ourselves and others. Spiritual guidance can sometimes sound as though we are supposed to patiently tolerate injustice, suppress our natural instincts or become pious hypocrites in denial of our own energies. In this retreat we will together explore wise relationship with the energies of anger in order to cultivate more ease in navigating anger both internally and externally.
This will be a daylong Insight Dialogue retreat. We will practice silent meditation and, together, the contemplations of Insight Dialogue in which we will explore our moment-to-moment experience while meditating in dialogue with others. This dialogue practice can open us to perceive and understand things that are normally overlooked in our own personal perceptions. Meditating together, we discover and investigate the mind's constructing nature and its great potential for awareness and for freedom.
Because Insight Dialogue builds on our established meditation practice, prior experience of at least a daylong or weekend insight meditation retreat is requested. If you would like guidance about the suitability of this retreat for you, please contact Sharon, sharon@metta.org. Additional information about Insight Dialogue may be found at www.metta.org.