Committing to Truth:
A Daylong Retreat with nico hase
Saturday, July 13th
10 am to 4 pm pacific time
In a world where everyone seems to be lying, why should you commit to truth?
Besides the obvious reasons, like good relationships and the ability to sleep at night, committing to truth is what leads to deep insight, and insight is what leads to to the end of suffering.
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In this one-day online retreat, nico will delve into sacca parami ("truthfulness"), that quality of the heart that stands in what’s real. (Devin Berry was also scheduled to teach this retreat but due to a family emergency has had to bow out. He’ll be back next month for a daylong on Determination.)
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 seventh 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.
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.