Awakening through Mindfulness-Awareness: A Buddhist Meditation Retreat on the Four Noble Truths
With Gaylon Ferguson
July 24 - 31, 2019
A summer week of practice at beautiful Sky Lake. Weekthun is an intensive, week-long meditation retreat for new and experienced meditators interested in deepening their mindfulness-awareness.
This program’s contemplative study and practice is based on the book “The Truth of Suffering and The Path of Liberation” by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In the teachings of the Buddha, understanding suffering as the path is the key to liberation. This program will include both guided group contemplation of this foundational teaching, one-to-one meditation instruction, and experiential mindfulness-awareness exercises.
The program will be full of practices carefully designed to cultivate mindfulness-awareness including:
- One-on-one meditation instruction
- Guided meditations
- Movement exercises
- Dharma talks from the teacher
- Walks through the beautiful Sky Lake woods
Through the week of practice, meditation goes beyond the cushion, with every aspect of daily life becoming a practice of wakefulness and an opportunity to make better friends with ourselves and our world.
Participants are invited to stay for the whole retreat or depart Sunday, July 28th.
Meals will be served Oryoki style. Please purchase these materials for practice.
About the Leader
Gaylon Ferguson
Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, is a senior teacher in the Shambhala and Buddhist traditions who has been leading meditation retreats since 1976. He was a member of Naropa University’s core faculty and is the author of Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With. Additionally, his article, “Making Friends with Ourselves,” was selected for inclusion in […]
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