An Insight Meditation Weekend Retreat

with special visiting teacher

Steve Armstrong

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October 7th, 8th and 9th

The title of the weekend retreat is
“Training in Awareness and Wisdom“

We are extremely fortunate to host one of the most respected and sought-after teachers in the American Insight Meditation/Vipassana lineage. To experience Steve Armstrong’s teachings, one would normally have to travel to a premiere residential retreat center. We are grateful he has accepted the invitation to come to Montana!
Scroll down to read his illustrious bio.

This weekend is recommended for all levels of mediation experience. Steve will outline the fundamentals of the Buddhist path and bring clarity and precision to instructions, questions and discussions. Students find his depth of insight and talent for articulating the nuances of the path to be invigorating, clarifying and motivating.

Retreat Schedule and Topics

Friday evening: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

This evening is also open to the public as a stand-alone event.
This evening’s talk is titled: “Archaeology of the Heart.”

Saturday, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm

Saturday’s session will include a lunch break mid-day. Please bring your lunch.
An evening meal will be served at 5:30 pm and retreatants are asked to stay and eat together.
The evening session’s talk is titled: “Mindfulness, Insight and Nibbana”

Sunday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Sunday’s session is titled: ”Awareness as a Lifestyle.”

About This Retreat

Steve will offer complementary teachings and instructions from various Buddhist meditative traditions on wise understanding, right attitude for practice, the how to work with reactive states of mind, and crystal clear instructions for practice.

Steve writes: “Cultivating stable awareness of all experience is training in wisdom, which reveals liberating insights into the nature of reality. We see that everything that appears is the natural display of impersonal conditions giving rise to their lawful effect. When the mind is supported by skillful view and is unclouded by confusion, greed or negativity, we are able to see the truth of the way things are. This is seeing the world through the eyes of the Dharma, and is the foundation for well-being and liberation.”

Online registration is now closed, but there are still some spaces left in the retreat. Please come at 7 pm on Friday evening and register at the door.

Costs and The Practice of “Dana”

Weekend retreats at the Dharma Center have a 2-part “cost:” Because the teachings are considered priceless and are to be supported by Dana (a voluntary, anonymous offering of no specified amount) we ask that you make a Dana offering to the teacher, in gratitude and support of the teachings – as best fits your circumstances and brings you joy in giving.

Secondly, we ask a sliding-scale registration fee to cover Steve’s expenses and the cost of putting on the retreat. Scholarships are always available and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

Please opt for the rate that best suits your circumstances:

Base Rate: $125

Student/Supportive Rate: $75

Benefactor Rate: $175

If you would like to ask for a scholarship, (to pay an amount below $75)
please register with that option and then email us and let us know.
(More details and actual registration are accessed by the yellow button above.)

Sponsorships for Young Adults:

The Dharma Center has received several gifts to sponsor young adults to attend this retreat. The first 5 participants ages 18 – 30 who request will have their registration fee covered. If you are interested, please register with the “Pay Later” option and email us that you’d like to enjoy one of these sponsorships.

Housing for out of town participants may be arranged.

We expect this retreat to draw from the state and region. Please email us if you would like to be hosted by a local sangha member or paired with another person to share a hotel room. We will do our best to provide accommodation. info@BozemanDharmaCenter.org

About Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong began his dhamma practice in 1975 with senior Western teachers Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. After 10 years of retreats and service on staff and as Executive Director and Board member at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, he travelled to Burma where he ordained for five years as the Buddhist monk, U Buddharakkhita, and practiced intensive vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) at the Mahasi Meditation Center in Yangon with Burmese monastics Sayadaws U Pandita (mindfulness, metta, vipassana), U Lakkhana (vipassana), U Jatilla (vipassana), and studied abhidhamma with U Zagara in Australia.

Returning to the US in 1990, Steve disrobed to become a lay teacher and has led meditation retreats, including the annual 3‐month retreat at IMS for 18 years. Since 2004, he has been practicing “mindfulness of mind” with Sayadaw U Tejaniya and now integrates the teachings of these two awareness and insight traditions. He has taught mindfulness, insight and abhidhamma retreats in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US since 1991.

As a co‐founding Director and Guiding Teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation along with Kamala Masters, they have overseen development of “Ho’omalamalama,” a 17‐acre dhamma sanctuary and hermitage on Maui where they have planted more than 2500 fruit, shade, tropical hardwood and native Hawaiian trees.

Beginning in 2005, he has directed the Myanmar Schools Project: the compassionate response by the Vipassana Metta Foundation, to the need for educational facilities in Myanmar. To date (2016), they have built or renovated 100 schools, 5 clinics and 5 nunneries in Burma.

In 2000, he initiated a project to develop and lead the Vipassana Metta Foundation Translation Committee, a team of current and former Burmese and Western monastics well practiced in the Mahāsi Sayadaw tradition of vipassana, to translate, edit and publish Mahāsi Sayadaw’s Manual of Insight in English. This authoritative and comprehensive meditation manual was published by Wisdom Publications in May, 2016.

Preview Steve’s Dharma Talks

There are over 400 of Steve’s dharma talks available on Dharma Seed’s Audio Library,
which can be accessed here.

Get To Know Steve:

Steve is interviewed by Dan Harris on the 10% Happier podcast: linked here

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