Unlearning Meditation: Meditation as a Container for Change

We are often taught to look at meditation as an exercise, a practice,  a technique, as something to improve at, as leading to a promised goal  or realization. What if sitting down to meditate is just sitting with  what comes into your mind at every moment? It is resting in the river of  consciousness. Not pushing that river, nor being drowned. Floating,  riding, sinking, coming up for air. Like a natural river, consciousness  has shores, and those banks are the mind recollecting where the river  has been. When we allow mental processes to flow, change will occur,  while recollection gives us the safety, awareness, and wisdom we need.  Then we are unlearning meditation. And unlearning, like its shadow  (“learning”), is a lifelong journey.

Jason will give Dharma Talks comparing the psychology of Early  Buddhism to the later schools of Buddhism. He will offer daily group and  individual interviews. At night, he will read a story from his book,  “If Only I Had Listened with Different Ears.”

This 9-day retreat is suitable for people with some background in Buddhist forms of meditation.

Please register here.