Keri
Pederson
Saturday,
June 5th, 2021
Virtual Meditation
Retreat (on Zoom)
Daylong meditation
retreat with Keri Pederson, meditation teacher for Seattle Insight Meditation
Society.
This retreat will be held
from 9:00 am until 3:30 pm
This retreat is hosted by
the Mid-Columbia Insight Meditation Society.
Registration is now open for a daylong
mindfulness meditation retreat on Saturday, June 5th with Keri Pederson.
A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock
Teacher Training Program, she is a meditation teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society. The retreat will
be held online from 9:30 am until 3:30 pm, using Zoom. The retreat will consist
of a mix of seated meditation and walking meditation with instruction and a
Dharma talk and will be suitable for beginners and experienced meditators. The
schedule will be structured and instruction will be provided to make it easier
to practice on retreat while at home.
To register for the
retreat, please send an email to InsightMeditation.Midcol@gmail.com.
Fee for the retreat will be $10. The fee will be waived for those who can't
afford it. Please use our online donation form to pay the fee ( https://donorbox.org/support-insight-meditation-society-mid-columbia ),
and leave a comment indicating that the donation is for the retreat on June
5th. A separate link will be provided to those who attend the retreat that they
can use to make a donation to Keri Pederson. Those who are registered for the
retreat will receive an email a day or two before the retreat with the Zoom
link for the retreat.
Keri will also lead a meditation and
give a Dharma talk with time for discussion the evening before the retreat, on
Friday, June 4th. That event will also be online using Zoom, from 7:30 pm until
9:00 pm. No registration will be needed for the Friday evening talk and
meditation and there will be no fee to attend, though participants will be
encouraged to support Keri's work by providing a donation online using a link
that will be provided that evening. The Zoom link for that talk will be
provided in this newsletter a week or two before the event.
Here is a more detailed
description of the central topic of the retreat:
For most of us, the experience of this
pandemic year has involved a certain degree of restriction and retreat. We
may have been aware of a heightened sensitivity to pain, loss, and the ongoing
risk involved in simply being alive at any given moment. How are these
conditions changing and shaping our view, and how do we bear this sensitivity
as we consider re-emerging? In our retreat together, we’ll look closely at
the three forms of craving the Buddha identified as being central to our
experience of suffering — the craving for sense experience, the craving for
being, and the craving for non-being. We’ll explore how a compassionate
understanding of these can change the way we relate to these alternating
movements in our lives of contraction and expansion, being and doing,
retreating and emerging.