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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

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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

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.
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Our Teacher

Howard Cohn is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay area. He has guided a local sitting group in San Francisco, been in private practice as a psychotherapist, and led Vipassana retreats worldwide since 1985. He incorporates the influences of Theravada, Zen, Tibetan Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta in his teaching, with an emphasis on reawakening our intrinsic freedom. Among his many teachers and mentors are Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, U Pandita Sayadaw, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and the Advaita Vedanta Master H.W.L. Poonja.

The retreat is open to the first 85 registrants on a first-come basis – once those positions are filled, registered names will be placed on a waiting list.

If you must cancel after registering please let us know as soon as possible to allow those on the wait list to plan ahead. 
A few days before the retreat we will send instructions and a link with the Zoom Meeting ID.

There is no fee for this retreat. In keeping with our ancient tradition of dana (generosity) the retreat and teachings are offered freely.
The opportunity is always available to offer dana to Howie to help him continue his ability to teach the Buddhadharma:

Paypal: HowardCohn.com
Venmo: @Buddho
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