Samadhi and Wisdom

Residential Meditation Retreat

The Practice and Path of Mindfulness, Jhana and Insight

Sponsored by the Metta Dharma Foundation 

  With Richard Shankman

  April 16 - 25, 2010

  Jikoji Retreat Center, Los Gatos, CA

  To Register download the following 3 forms: 

  1) Retreat Application - Click Here

  2) Liability Release Form

  3) Retreat Information Sheet                                

  Cost:  $675 (cost does not include teacher dana)

Concentration and jhana are often taught as separate practices from insight meditation.

This retreat will cultivate concentration, mindfulness and insight as a single meditative path, using mindfulness of breathing as the foundational practice.

Through mindfulness of breathing the mind becomes more collected and centered.  This leads to deepening states of peace, clarity and calm abiding known as jhana.  Awareness opens naturally into mindfulness of the body, states of the heart and the mind, revealing the four foundations of mindfulness.   

Practicing in this way, mindfulness, insight, concentration and jhana are all integrated into a single practice.