Wisdom:
A Daylong Meditation Intensive with nico hase
Saturday, March 11th
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, nico will guide meditators through a series of contemplations on the parami of pañña (“wisdom”) with an emphasis on recognizing this 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 third in a series of 12 online daylong retreats on the paramis.
The ten paramis (“furtherances” or “perfections”) 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.
(All one-on-one meeting times for this retreat are taken.)
For scholarship information, or if you have any questions about this retreat, please email retreat manager Rachael Smith at rtannersmith@gmail.com.
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 Survival Guide for Modern Life.