A 5 Day Retreat with Douglas Veenhof
March 15-19, 2019
Rolling Ridge Retreat Center, North Andover, Massachusetts
Experience Tibetan Buddhism’s Great Perfection with Douglas Veenhof
This 5 Day retreat will explore a full spectrum of meditations for achieving the view of Tibetan Buddhism’s “Great Perfection.”
The Beauty and serenity of Rolling Ridge provide an ideal setting for diving in to these exhilarating practices with the transformative intensity that only retreat can provide.
The daily schedule includes precise and detailed instruction on a progression of shamatha practices designed to develop meditative stability and vividness.
We will also examine how this tool of close observation, when teamed with the inquiry of vipashyana meditation, can power insights capable of cutting through the everyday fog of illusory appearances to pristine awareness.
Along with the instruction, there will be ample time each day for your own silent practice so that the methods and insights discussed can be integrated as your own discoveries
Longtime practitioners may find this retreat what they need to reignite their practice, but even those new to meditation will learn in this experiential and systematic approach a comprehensive practice to take home with them.
Topics include:
• Adding a Mute Switch to the Ruminating Mind.
• Structures of Consciousness.
• Taking Mental Appearances as the Object of Meditation.
• The Lucidity of Simultaneous Stillness and Motion.
• Can “I” be Found?
• The View of Pristine Awareness.
Doug Veenhof travels widely leading meditation workshops and retreats around the world. He is a certified trainer in Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB), a meditation program for developing emotional fluency, and is the Development Director for the Center for Contemplative Research, a long term retreat facility planned in Tuscany.
For more about Doug, visit his website : www.douglasveenhof.com
For more about Rolling Ridge Retreat Center visit their website: www.rollingridge.org
Registration fees include room, meals, and programming costs.
Space Still Available in all Room Types
Room Options and Prices:
Regular Price
Single Room $755.00
Twin Room: $675.00
Multi Room: $635.00
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