If you want to know more about your mind and heart, you can read books or listen to teachings and learn more about meditation, Buddhism, love, compassion, and wisdom. But if you want to experience your mind and your heart, you must take time to retreat. Retreat means leaving your busy life behind, and spending time meditating and paying close attention to your body, in stillness and in silence. You can go on a retreat for months or weeks, (or even years), at a monastery, but you can also do a retreat for just a weekend, a day, or even a few hours, at home or in a center near you. Whatever the length of time, when you’re in retreat, you realize your wisdom and love, and reconnect with all your beautiful qualities. This is especially important in our modern lives, because our compassion and clear-seeing are often obscured by our fears, anxieties, or delusions and we forget how much we have to offer ourselves and the world.
That’s why I’m leading a retreat workshop at New York Insight Meditation Center in-person and online next week. It’s an opportunity for you to rest, recharge, and remember your tremendous capacity for love, and cultivate kindness, caring, and good sense for yourself and others. I know how healing it is to spend time without cellphones, computers, and work because I’ve experienced it many times, and you can too.
We’ll have quiet practice periods with guided meditation, discussion, and time for questions and sharing. You’ll learn techniques that you can take with you to continue to develop your loving heart, and—perhaps more importantly—you’ll experience the beauty and peace of your being and the power of attention and love.
You can join me via Zoom at Discover Your Love on Saturday, March 30th, 10am-1pm.
New Yorkers can join me in person!
Click here to reserve your seat.
You might think you don’t have time to take a break for yourself, or that it’s impossible to put away your phone for a few hours—but you’re wrong. Retreating for just a short while will refresh your body and mind, create a sense of ease in your heart, and enable you to feel more at peace with your struggles and your joys. Please join us!
You don’t have to be a meditator or a Buddhist to experience the benefits of silence and peace. Discover Your Love is an opportunity to restore your clarity, deepen your self-compassion, and learn, practice, and experience the transformative power of love and kindness.
You can see all the details at this link. And, if the live session doesn't fit into your schedule, if you sign-up you’ll be able to access a recording of the event and participate at your own convenience.
All are welcome to join this special class—no experience with meditation is necessary. Please forward to anyone you think might benefit from it. And if you’re not quite sure if you’re a fit, or if you have questions about it, email me.
This audio meditation to help you nurture your lovingkindness, whether you attend on Thursday or not. Please practice and tell me your experience in the comments.
May we all recognize our luminous, open, spacious nature!
Metta+++,
Kim✨
A Meditation to Nuture Love