Special Session of the BIC: Guest Steve Armstrong

When:
@ 1:00 pm – 2:45 pm America/Denver Timezone
2018-10-04T13:00:00-06:00
2018-10-04T14:45:00-06:00
Where:
Bozeman Dharma Center
1019 E Main St #202
Bozeman, MT 59715
USA

 The Bozeman Insight Community will enjoy a special guest on Thursday, October 4th: 

Steve Armstrong

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Steve is a senior Insight (Vipassana) teacher who began his practice over 40 years ago with Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield as the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA was founded.  He visits Bozeman to lead a weekend retreat intensive:
“Through Dhamma Eyes, Training in Awareness and Wisdom,”
October 7, 8 and 9th.  For details on the retreat, please click here. 
Steve’s talk this evening will be especially suited to beginners or those wanting an introduction to Vipassana/Insight practice, titled “Map of the Journey.” 

This evening is offered freely. Contributions to the Insight Community and to Steve to support his teachings will be graciously accepted.

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.

Get To Know Steve:
Steve is interviewed by Dan Harris on the 10% happier podcast: linked here.
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.

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