Online Meditation Retreat

Offered Through Zoom Video Platform

Calming the Mind, Opening to Insight

The Practice and Path of Mindfulness, Jhana and Insight

With Richard Shankman

December 4 – 10, 2021

This retreat is offered on a donation basis.  Anyone is welcome to participate.

To participate, email metta@mettadharma.org.  We will send you full details on how to participate and access Zoom sessions.

Join us for an opportunity to deepen your meditation practice and connect with others in this online community.

You may participate however much your personal needs and home circumstances will allow.

A full schedule of sitting and walking meditation will be offered, including progressive meditation instructions, time for Q&A, guided metta (lovingkindness) and compassion sessions, and dharma talks.  See below for complete schedule.

Individual practice interviews can be scheduled with Richard.

Click here for the Daily Schedule.  While the schedule is written for Pacific Time zone, we hope those of you in other time zones will take this schedule and adapt it for your time zone as well as your needs and habits around eating and sleeping.

Click this link for Suggestions and Guidelines to set up supportive conditions in your home environment.

If you wish to offer donations to support the Metta Dharma Foundation click this link to donate through our Paypal account.  Please make a note designating if and how your donation should be divided between the Metta Dharma Foundation and the teacher.

Suggested sliding scale is $100 – $700.

Richard Shankman has been a meditator since 1970 and teaches at dharma centers and groups nationally. He teaches mindfulness of the breath and body that integrates concentration and jhana with mindfulness and insight meditation.

He is a co-founder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and of Mindful Schools, and the author of The Experience of Samadhi: An In-Depth Investigation of Buddhist Meditation and The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation.