Awareness, Insight and Liberation
Daylong Retreat with Visiting Senior Teacher, Steve Armstrong
The day will focus on integrating the mindfulness meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw with the practical mindful awareness guidance of Sayadaw U Tejaniya. This event is suitable for both new and experienced meditators. People of all walks of life are warmly welcome.
Steve will offer a clear path for developing clarity of awareness with each arising moment. This leads to stability of mind and the insightful knowledge of liberation. Such knowledge weakens deeply conditioned habits of mind that cause unhappiness, and strengthens conditions for an enduring sense of well-being.
Please plan to bring a lunch so there’s no need to leave the SDC building while at the retreat.
Steve Armstrong has studied the dhamma and practiced insight meditation since 1975. He served for years at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts as Executive Director, Board member and a senior teacher of the annual three-month retreat. As a monk in Burma for 5 years, he undertook the intensive, silent practice of insight and lovingkindness meditations under the guidance of Sayadaw U Pandita, as well as studying the abhidhamma with Sayadaw U Zagara of Australia. He continues his practice under the guidance of Sayadaw U Tejaniya in Rangoon.
He has been leading meditation retreats internationally since 1990 and is a co-founding director and teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation dhamma sanctuary on Maui. He was the Managing Editor of the translation committee that in 2016 brought to publication the much anticipated Manual of Insight by Mahasi Sayadaw, previously unavailable to the international meditation community in English.
Registration Details
Those who register and attend this one day retreat will receive an initial priority registration opportunity for the 2018 SIM residential retreat with Steve in a forest retreat center near Foresthill (September 7 to 14.) Pre-registration is required to secure your space at this retreat. Registration is $35.00 per person due before the start of the event. In addition to the registration fee, at the retreat there will be an opportunity to offer dana (in the form of a financial donation) to support the retreat presenter and Sacramento Insight Meditation. You may also offer dana online at the bottom of this webpage.
For the registration fee, we accept checks and cash. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information. Day-of registration will be on a first-come first-serve basis, contingent on availability of space.
Summary of Important Dates
- 12/05/2017- Registration opens.
- 01/24/2018 – Registration fee paid on or before this date.
- 01/26/2018 – Registrations online closed; come to the retreat on Jan 27 and register in person as space permits.
- 01/27/2018 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat.
Questions for the Registrar?
Use the form below only if you need to contact the retreat registrar with any questions. Expect a reply within 48 hours. If you are ready to register for the retreat, use the REGISTER button shown above.
Retreat Dana
At the event a “Dana Bowl” will be provided so you may provide additional financial support via cash or check. Or you may submit a donation online using the DONATE button below.