Week-long Meditation Retreat in Florida
February 22, 2019 - March 1, 2019
Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts
A week-long meditation retreat in Florida
with Shaila Catherine
Friday, February 22 – Friday, March 1, 2019
The retreat begins with registration at 3:00 pm on Friday, February 22, and ends with a noon lunch on Friday, March 1.
Mental restlessness is an insidious and pervasive hindrance that all practitioners struggle to overcome. We can refine our skills for working with the modes of thinking that distract us from being mindful: critical thoughts, planning, worrying, lustful thoughts, judging, memories, internal commentaries, to name a few. The teachings on this retreat will present a sequence of strategies for dealing with obstructive mental patterns; these progressive instructions are found in two discourses in the Middle Length Discourses, (suttas 19 and 20). Practitioners will be encouraged to develop a mindfulness-based meditation practice, while exploring these strategies for overcoming distractions.
This retreat is suitable for both new and experienced practitioners. It will be held at the beautiful Franciscan retreat facility on the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida.
Preparation: Please read the following two discourses prior to the retreat. You may wish to bring a print out to the retreat for your personal reference.
For more information and registration details, please visit the Orlando Insight Meditation Group’s website.