INVESTIGATING THE MIND with Shaila Catherine

A Four-Day Retreat: Thursday October 18 – Sunday October 21, 2018

Although meditation is renowned for promoting tranquility and mental calmness, meditation is not passive. Investigative methods play a vital role in the skillful development of mindfulness, wisdom, and liberating insight. In this insight meditation retreat we will cultivate ways to investigate the mind, working with hindrances and clarifying perceptions. We will examine the quality of our minds to understand how we might meet life’s experiences free from suffering. This silent meditation retreat will include sitting and walking meditation, meditation instruction, and teachings.

Shaila Catherine is the founder of BODHI COURSES, an online Dhamma Classroom, and of Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley, California. She has been practicing meditation since 1980 and teaching internationally since 1996. Catherine studied under Asian masters in India, Nepal, and the forest monasteries of Thailand as well as Western teachers Lama Surya Das, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Christopher Titmjss. After completing a one-year silent meditation retreat exploring jhāna as the basis for insight, she authored Focused and Fearless, an introduction to the absorption states of jhāna. From 2006-2015 she practiced under the direction of Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw; she authored Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhāna and Vipassana to help make this traditional approach to samadhi and vipassana accessible to Western practitioners.

There is a $75 refundable registration fee for this four-day, three- night retreat. Register early, as the retreat is rapidly filling. Don’t miss the opportunity to practice with this renowned author, teacher, and practitioner.

FLOWERING LOTUS Meditation and Retreat Center 204 South Clark Street Magnolia, Mississippi 39652

To register for this retreat – for additional information about Flowering Lotus – or to tour our beautiful facilities, visit www.floweringlotusmeditation.org.