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Weekend Insight Meditation Retreat
Weekend Insight Meditation Retreat
With Nick Scott & Carmel Harris
With Nick Scott & Carmel Harris
Fri 21st Aug (approx 7pm) - Sun 23rd Aug (approx. 4pm)
To be able to reside in the present we have to learn how to deal wisely with the past and future. Instead of distracting ourselves to avoid feeling the accumulated regret, hurt and karmic unease, and blaming ourselves, we need to fully realise that all of this is not me and mine. Likewise, we are not 'in charge' of the future and instead we need to learn to trust, rather than constantly trying to anticipate and control it. This is the path to a peaceful heart.
This retreat is suitable for beginners or those with experience of meditation retreats. There will be periods of sitting, walking, & standing meditations, as well as space for questions and interactions. It will be held in Noble Silence and participants will be keeping the Eight Precepts.
To book a place, or to make enquiries, please write to teachnat@gmail.com. We will send you a link to the registration form and more information.
Cost of Retreat
This retreat is offered on a donation (dana) basis. At the end of the retreat there will be an opportunity to give a donation towards hiring the facilities and our other costs (We will send an estimate per person with the retreat information). The teachings are free. The donation can be made at the retreat, or on-line using this paypal link: DONATION.
We now request a €50 non returnable deposit to reserve you a place on a weekend retreat (we will send you the paypal link). We have instigated this in the hope it will decrease the number of cancellations we have been having to process. Any unused deposits will go towards to cost of the retreat.
Location
Kilcuan Retreat Center, Claringridge Co.Galway
Nick Scott has been teaching short and long retreats for 25 years with the endorsement of senior monks in the Thai Forest tradition. His teaching is wise and humorous, and illustrated with personal stories and insights from 45 years of meditation, including long solitary retreats and residing for 10 years at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery in England. He is the author of several Buddhist travel books recounting adventures with Buddhist monks. These can be downloaded for free at: www.nickscottbooks.com
Nick is by profession an Ecologist working for environmental charities. He now lives with his partner, Micheline, in Co Galway.
Carmel Harris has been practicing meditation for 15 years.
She has spent the last 10 years supporting TnaT in facilitating the retreats doing regular longer retreats herself throughout that time.
She came to meditation at a very traumatic time in her life and through developing her own practice, doing retreats and visiting monasteries she has experienced a transformation which has shown her a way to be at peace with herself.
On this retreat she will share what she has learned-partcularly how to deal with avoidance and instead develop compassion and acceptance so the past can be let go of.
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