Southern Dharma Benefit – Turning Poison into Medicine: An Insight Meditation At Home Retreat
Fri, Sep 25
|Southern Dharma Retreat Center
September 25 - 27, 2020 with David Chernikoff
Time & Location
Sep 25, 2020, 4:30 PM CST – Sep 27, 2020, 11:30 AM CST
Southern Dharma Retreat Center
About the Event
Suffering and confusion can become steppingstones to the realization of our true nature. This online retreat is an invitation to quiet your mind, open your heart, and explore the ways in which the “ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows” become grist for the mill of awakening when met with wisdom and compassion. There will meditation instruction, dharma talks, experiential exercises, and opportunities for discussion. At this retreat, you will learn to turn disheartening “problems” into enlivening “challenges” and to celebrate the blessings of our imperfect lives.
, M.Div, LCSW, A student of meditation since 1971, David has completed the Community Dharma Leader training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1988. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other…