An Evening with Steve Armstrong

When:
@ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm America/Denver Timezone
2016-10-07T13:00:00-06:00
2016-10-07T15:00:00-06:00
Where:
Bozeman Dharma Center
1019 E Main St #202
Bozeman, MT 59715
USA

An Evening with Renown Insight Teacher

Steve Armstrong

Friday, October 7th
7:00 – 9:00 pm

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The public is welcome to drop in for the first session of Steve’s weekend retreat, to hear the opening talk titled: “Archeology of the Heart.”
This evening is offered freely; donations (“Dana”) to support Steve are graciously accepted.  
 For information on the weekend retreat,
please see the full listing here.

 No prior registration or experience is required.  Some meditation and Q and A will be included in the evening.  Please arrive early as we expect a packed house!

Weekend retreat participants need to register and should attend this evening.

This evening (and 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.  Come hear the Dharma from one of the most respected and sought-after teachers in the American Insight Meditation (Vipassana) lineage.

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 the Abhidhamma with U Zagara in Australia.

Returning to the US in 1990, after disrobing to become a layman, he 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.

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.

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