The Wisdom that Knows What to Do:
A Daylong Retreat with Judson Brewer & nico hase
Saturday, April 13th
10 am to 4 pm pacific time
Picture a moment in your life when you got stuck: you were confused, frozen, didn't know what to do.
Now imagine a time when you simply knew your next step.
What's the difference between these two occasions?
Put simply, in the moment when you knew what to do, the parami of pañña (wisdom) was present and alive.
For many of us, this quality of the heart, this wisdom, can feel accidental. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not.
But we can cultivate the parami of pañña. And that's exactly what we do in meditation.
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In this one-day online retreat, Jud & nico will delve into paññâ parami ("wisdom"), that quality of the heart that knows what to do.
The day will begin with an hour of conversation and an opening talk around the theme. We’ll then sit and walk for four hours in lightly guided practice, before reconvening for a closing talk and further dialogue.
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This daylong is the fourth in a series of ten online daylong retreats on the paramis hosted by Refuge of Belonging, a collective founded by nico hase & Devin Berry that is dedicated to sustaining the relationships and the deepening the dharma that people experience in insight meditation retreats.
The ten paramis (“furtherances” or “completions”) are foundational to the Buddhist path of awakening. Spanning states of the heart from kindness and equanimity to resolve and renunciation, they offer us a time tested way forward, a manner of cultivating what most truly benefits ourselves and others, both right now, in this moment, and as a stepping stone to final liberation.
Registration & Payment
Please use the button below to register. We offer these daylong retreats on a dana model. The suggested donation is $50 to $150 per session. We gratefully accept contributions of greater or lesser amounts, based on your resources.
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email from Rachael Tanner-Smith, our retreat manager. A day or two before the event, you will receive a second email with a Zoom link and other information.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Judson Brewer MD PhD is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the Medical School at Brown University. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behavior change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He is the author of The Craving Mind and Unwinding Anxiety.
nico hase lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time. He currently mentors mindfulness teachers, teaches online and in-person retreats, and speaks with students in one-on-one sessions. He and his beloved life partner devon are the authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Buddhist Survival Guide for Modern Life.