Insight Dialogue and Metta: Opening to Life As It Is
led by Sharon Beckman-Brindley and Phyllis Hicks
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation form, based in Vipassana. It expands solitary meditation by extending the mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion of silent practice into speaking and listening in contemplation with others. Through practice, we see directly and clearly how confusion and ignorance sustain both personal and interpersonal suffering.
This retreat focuses on learning and practicing Insight Dialogue. There will be times of silent practice, walking meditation, and mindful movement interwoven with periods of structured Insight Dialogue. We will practice metta - allowing our hearts and minds to open unconditionally to life and experience just as they actually are. As awareness deepens, we can experience for ourselves the profound Buddhist teachings on suffering and its cessation.