Join Robert Beatty and Candle Summers on Sat Aug 1, 9 am

GOING DEEPER: A RETREAT DAY OF PRACTICE

A First Saturday Online Retreat

Welcome to a day of deepening your practice with Robert and Candle. If you are an experienced meditator, take this opportunity to have continuity of awareness with several periods of sitting and walking. If you are just starting out this is an opportunity to receive really clear guidance. Candle and Robert will guide you through periods of sitting, walking and movement meditation. There will be time for questions and two breakout sharing sessions. Come with your heart and mind open to the joy of touching again into silence and calm, and whatever else may arise for mindfulness to see. Prepare to welcome all of it, and have the support of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha in doing so. Make it a day to cultivate your own garden.

EVENT DETAILS

DATE AND TIME : Sat. August 1st, 9 am - 2 pm

DANA: $50 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Retreat is online.

Zoom link will be emailed to you along with receipt for registration.

MEET YOUR TEACHERS

ABOUT CANDLE SUMMERS

Candle Summers arrived in Portland from Maui, Hawaii in 2013. She has participated for twenty years with her root teachers Kamala Masters and Steve Armstrong. She completed Spirit Rock’s four year Dharma Leader program in 2001 and her Theravadan background includes the teachings of Anagarika Munidra, Sayadaws U Pandita and U Tejaniya, Gil Fronsdal, Mark Nunberg, and more. Candle has been offering a monthly insight/metta meditation gathering on Mondays (now Zoom) in SE Portland and previously led a women’s group, a Buddhist book club and managed retreats for the Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui for 12 years. She can be contacted through email at candlemaui@gmail.com .

ABOUT ROBERT BEATTY

Robert Beatty is a member of the first wave of Theravada Buddhist Teachers who brought the Dharma from Asia in the 1970’s . His mission is to help others discover the profound ways Buddhist practices can transform one’s life, reduce suffering and create happiness. Robert founded the Portland Insight Meditation Community where he is the guiding teacher.

His meditation training began in India in 1972. He has studied with many teachers in Burma, India and the US. He traces his primary lineage is through Ruth Denison , founder of the Dhamma Dena Retreat Center , who named

him a Dharma successor and authorized him to teach in 1982.

He has a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto, and Masters in Social Work from Portland State.

His teaching includes the non-dual perspective. He uses humor, movement poetry and drumming to teach meditation for everyday life, including intimate relationships, parenting, work and community.

ROBERT'S WEBSITE

You can get a sense of Robert's teaching HERE