Retreat Description:
The Buddha describes one of the cornerstones of meditation as the skillful application of our effort or energy. A central art of mediation is to attune our effort just as we might tune a musical instrument. In this retreat we will explore how to apply this wise effort to align with our deepest potential.
Andrew will be appearing each day at 9 am, 3 pm for questions and answers, and then for the final sit and dharma talk at 6:30 pm, all Chicago (Central) time.
This retreat provides ample opportunity for sitting meditation and walking in whatever space you have chosen in which to practice this online retreat. While this pandemic is raging, we will make use of the free app/software Zoom to forge our sangha. Opportunities to send questions to Andrew via the chat function in Zoom will be available. Even online, we will create a sangha of similarly intentioned friends who support each other.
This will be an online retreat, in which you will participate using the Zoom app for phones or tablets which is freely available from your app store, or the Zoom Client for Meetings for computer uses available for download from the Zoom website (https://zoom.us/download), also free.
Being online means that a schedule will be provided that we will follow and which will delineate the times during which we will receive talks from Andrew, sit for meditation, engage in walking meditation or other meditative practices, or break for meals or evening sleep. There will be opportunities using the chat function in Zoom to forward questions that will be answered by either the host (technical questions) or Andrew (dharma questions). Each of us will therefore be even more self-disciplined than we would normally be at a physical retreat, hopefully a great benefit for us practitioners.
After you register, more details and suggestions will be sent. A few days before the retreat begins, we will send necessary Zoom information for joining the meetings.
Tickets will cost $25 and there will be the opportunity to provide dana to support our teacher.