Gentle and Clear: Training for Our Unbinding
With Michele McDonald and Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
July 17, 2021
The mind has learned to defend itself from the fragility of life through craving, anger, fear, and fantasy. How do we come to trust the deeper security provided by love and wisdom without demonizing the challenging patterns we encounter so often in our hearts? Join Michele and Jesse for a meditation retreat where we will explore these dynamics and attempt to instill a sense of confidence in our path going forward – in the many fruitful ways that are possible. We will be online together for half the day and recorded instructions will be provided for those wanting to make it a full day of practice. All are welcome!
1-5:30 Mountain (listed below) / 12-4:30 Pacific / 3-7:30 Eastern
1:00 – 2:00 – Opening and Sit w/ instructions
2:00 – 2:30 – Walk
2:30 – 3:15 – Sit
3:15 – 4:00 – Dhamma Talk
4:00 – 4:30 – Walk
4:30 – 5:00 – Q&A
5:00 – 5:30 – Sit and close
***We will provide recorded morning instructions for those wishing to sit a full day. This offering will be recorded and shared with participants as well.***
About the Teachers
Michele McDonald
Michele McDonald has taught Insight meditation since 1982 and teaches extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Burma, and various locations around the world. Michele has been a quiet pioneer having being the first woman to teach a formal retreat in Burma, side-by-side with a senior monastic figure, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Abbot of Kyaswa Monastery. Having […]
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Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey's teaching aims to inspire the skills, determination, and faith necessary to realize the deepest human freedom. He is a student of Michele McDonald and his approach is rooted in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. As a teacher of Vipassana (insight) meditation within the broader context of Theravada Buddhism his teaching encourages […]
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