Finding Peace in the Eye of the Storm
An Online Householders Retreat
Sep 20-26, 2020
Robert Brumet Teacher

If you are confused, concerned or curious about events unfolding in our nation and in our world, and if you seek to stay centered and to choose wisely what to say or do, then this retreat is designed specifically for you.

Finding Peace in the Eye of the Storm is a retreat designed to help you be mindful and to practice the dharma in the midst of these turbulent times. It is also designed to help you find the clarity to make right choices in your personal life and in your community involvement.

The retreat format is that of a Householders’ Retreat, which means that it meets several times in the course of one week and assignments are given for practice in your everyday life. We will guide you in the practice of Insight Meditation (aka vipassana) as well as some tonglen. Beginners and experienced yogis are invited.

We meet Sunday Sept 20, 9 am-5 pm: Saturday Sept 26, 10 am-5 pm; Tues (9/22) & Thurs (9/24) 7-9pm. All meetings will be via Zoom; an invitation will be sent to you via email the day before each gathering.

Insight Meditation is a practice that aims to free the mind from the distortions of self-centeredness, negativity, and confusion. Through the intensive practice of moment-to-moment investigation of the body-mind process the mind gradually sees more clearly into the nature of itself. Such clear seeing leads to freedom from the attachments and misconceptions that cause our suffering and allows us to open to a path of wisdom and compassion.

This retreat is led by Robert Brumet. He has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1990. Robert received Community Dharma Leader certification from Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2000. He is also a Spiritual Director, having received certification from Mt St Scholastica College in 2013.

Insight meditation is a powerful tool for liberating ourselves from the bondage of our conditioning. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure and pain, fear and joy, and all aspects of life with increasing balance and equanimity. This practice is then integrated into an interpersonal dialogue process which brings mindfulness into the arena of our human relationships.

We are inherently relational beings and much of the joy and suffering of human life is connected with our relationships with others. As we bring mindfulness into our interpersonal relationships we open the possibility for deep healing and an enrichment of our relationship with ourself and others.

If you are in need of scholarship assistance to attend, please contact Victor Dougherty at victordougherty@unitytemple.com directly to register. Thank you.