Online: Calm and Steadiness, Insight and Wisdom
with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Saturday, March 19th, 2022 | 10:00am – 5:30pm ET
The Buddha taught the basic practice of Shamata Vipassana or Calm and Wisdom. We shouldn’t mistake “basic” to mean simply applicable for beginners, however. The understanding of how to cultivate calm and steadiness as well as insight and wisdom is an ongoing arena of exploration and discovery for both new and experienced practitioners.
In the morning session, we will focus on wise ways to approach methods of calmness and steadiness. The afternoon session will emphasize insight and wisdom. We will discuss how methods of calm and steadiness are a springboard for wisdom and how insight and wisdom brings about greater calm, all in the service of inner liberation of heart.
At the end of this daylong of teachings and practice, join Narayan for an intimate period of conversation and discussion.
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Teacher(s)
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, MA, where she has been teaching since it opened its doors in 1985. She is also one of the guiding teachers at IMS (the Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, MA. Narayan is the author of a small book entitled Life as Meditation as well as The Magnanimous Heart; Compassion and love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation, published January 2019. Her training includes over 35 years in the Theravada tradition as well as ten years in the Chan tradition with the late Master Sheng-yen. She finds it a joy and a privilege to share the buddha’s teachings with all who are interested.