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Mar 22

Can’t physically come to a sit? Join us virtually on the Insight Timer!

Recently, we have started two groups on the Insight Timer. One for our Honolulu Sunday Sits and one for our North Kohala Sunday Sits. If you can’t make the Sunday Sittings but want to join us, do so on the Insight Timer. The Sunday sits in North Kohala are 4:00 – 4:45 pm and in Honolulu are 5:00 – 5:45 pm Hawai’i time.

If you are not familiar with the Insight Timer, check it out (or download) here:

https://insighttimer.com

It’s an app on your phone that allows you to time your sits, see others meditating at the same time, allows you to communicate with others of like mind, and allows to to join different groups like Vipassana Hawai’i, Satipatthana: the Direct Path, or even Rumi poems.

Find us! See you on the Insight Timer.

p.s. If you need help send Dorothy an email at information@vipassanahawaii.org

 

Mar 3

2016 Kyaswa Retreat and MettaDana Update!

 

 

Dear Friends,

Aloha and Mingalabar from all of us involved in the Kyaswa Fusion Retreat and the MettaDana Project! 

This year marked the 21st anniversary of our annual retreat at Kyaswa Monastery and of the community development programs funded by the MettaDana Project. Our relationships with local community members continue to strengthen and we are so pleased that our relationship with Sayadaw U Pannananda, who is now the leading monastic teaching the retreat, has continued to blossom and flourish.  Read more

Jan 8

Hollyhock Retreat Open

 Vipassana Retreat Metta/Brahma Vihara

Vipassana Retreat Metta/Loving-Kindness

with Michele McDonald and Steven Smith

Announcing the 2016 Spring Hollyhock schedule, two retreat opportunities at one location on beautiful Cortes Island, British Columbia, at the Hollyhock Centre. Sit these meditation retreats with both Michele McDonald and Steven Smith and supportive staff. Experience seven days practicing Mette, unconditional love, and the other Brahma Viharas, wise compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Then stay for the second seven days, or just sign up for part two, focusing on the first of the Brahma Viharas–Metta or LovingKindness.

Participants may attend the full fourteen day practice, or come during one of the following weeks.

April 27 – May 4, 2016 – Vipassana Metta/Brahma Vihara, 
Cultivate Unconditional Love, Wise Compassion, Empathetic Joy, and Equanimity.

May 4 – May 11, 2016 – Vipassana Metta/LovingKindness, 
focus practise on Loving Kindness for oneself and others.
Joy Kerfoot will be offering mindful movement. Pari Ruengvisesh will be assisting Michele and Steven.

Request a Reservation for This Program Register early to ensure your program and accommodation choice.

Special note: The Lake Retreats have been very popular and fill quickly. Steven had decided to offer another retreat in June at this amzing Thailand location, Jungle Yoga. Keeps your eyes open and we will let you know as soon as information becomes available.

 

Dec 30

Register now for Forgiveness and Reconciliation 

January 22-30, 2016, on beautiful O’ahu.

Registration closes January 15 for both residential and nonresidential. Don’t wait!

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

With Sayadaw U Thuzana

January 22 – 30, 2016

The Buddha succeeded in establishing a community that has been a genuine force for peace and harmony, not only because of the high value he placed on these qualities but also because of the precise instructions he gave on how to achieve them through forgiveness and reconciliation. Central to these instructions is his insight that forgiveness is one thing reconciliation is something else. Sayadaw U Thuzana will teach the difference between the two as we practice forgiveness and learn how to reconcile in this seven-day mindfulness meditation retreat that is suitable to anyone who is interested in or has already been practicing Buddhist meditation. For more information about Sayadaw U Thuzana, click here.

To register please go to this web page.

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