Please join us for Nalandabodhi Vancouver’s annual Year End Meditation Retreat from Sun., Dec. 29 to Tues., Dec. 31.
The retreat offers shamatha meditation (sitting & walking) each morning (10 am to 12 noon) and afternoon (1 – 3 pm).
The centre and shrine room will stay open over the lunch break. Please feel free to bring a lunch and make it a day of meditative practice!
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche writes: “From the most basic, simplest form of sitting meditation to the most complex form of deity practice, all meditation requires a one-pointed concentration. This is shamatha meditation. We focus. We bring our mind to some kind of a focal reference point, whether it is an outer object or an inner object.
“Any kind of concentration is what we call shamatha. The point of shamatha is that your mind is unwavering, non-distracted. There is some sense of settling in your meditation, not wandering away.”
Rinpoche provides some concise shamatha instructions in this article from Lion’s Roar.
Schedule
Sunday, Dec. 29
10 am – 12 noon
1 – 3 pm
Monday, Dec. 30
10 am – 12 noon
(Note: this will be a Tara practice)
1 – 3 pm
Tuesday, Dec. 31
10 – 11:30 am
1 – 3 pm
Please come for any part of this retreat — or join us for all three days!
By donation.