Calming the Restless Mind
A Two-day Silent Retreat with Howard Cohn
Online via Zoom
September 26-27, 2020
Saturday 10-4 and Sunday 9-2
Settling the mind into the body, our hearts can settle, and we can all realize
that the peace and ease we are looking for in our lives
is the natural peace and ease of our own nature.
– Howard Cohn
that the peace and ease we are looking for in our lives
is the natural peace and ease of our own nature.
– Howard Cohn
During these times of challenge and disruptive change, everyone is looking for ways to recover a feeling of calm and peace. Much of our restlessness and agitation stems from an untrained mind and lack of clear perception of our moment to moment experience.
This retreat will be training for our hearts and minds to find a calm abiding in the present moment:
Being able to access calm during times of stress is not just a wish but a prerequisite to access intuition, wisdom, lovingkindness and equanimity.
Engaging in and enjoying the ritual of practicing together with an altruistic intention, we can bring calm and stability to ourselves and be beacons of sanity for others during these difficult and uncertain times.
We will follow the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – being mindful and sensitive to our bodies, beginning with the sensations of breathing and expanding to include all other types of physical sensations. We will learn to feel pleasure more fully without trying to make it last, and learn to more easily accommodate unpleasant experiences without being afraid or reactive to them. We will develop the skill of recognizing and working with our moods and emotions and learn how to relate to our thoughts more wisely rather than be so easily carried away by them.
Settling the mind into the body, noticing and caring about the flow of experience, our hearts can settle, and we can all realize that the peace and ease we are looking for in our lives is the natural peace and ease of our own nature.
This retreat will be training for our hearts and minds to find a calm abiding in the present moment:
Being able to access calm during times of stress is not just a wish but a prerequisite to access intuition, wisdom, lovingkindness and equanimity.
Engaging in and enjoying the ritual of practicing together with an altruistic intention, we can bring calm and stability to ourselves and be beacons of sanity for others during these difficult and uncertain times.
We will follow the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – being mindful and sensitive to our bodies, beginning with the sensations of breathing and expanding to include all other types of physical sensations. We will learn to feel pleasure more fully without trying to make it last, and learn to more easily accommodate unpleasant experiences without being afraid or reactive to them. We will develop the skill of recognizing and working with our moods and emotions and learn how to relate to our thoughts more wisely rather than be so easily carried away by them.
Settling the mind into the body, noticing and caring about the flow of experience, our hearts can settle, and we can all realize that the peace and ease we are looking for in our lives is the natural peace and ease of our own nature.
