Living With a Tender Heart
Loving Kindness & Mindfulness Meditation Retreat with Chas DiCapua
OCTOBER 25 – 27, 2019
Bishop Booth Conference Center Burlington, Vermont
Sponsored by Wellspring Insight Meditation Community

Metta, or loving-kindness, is the heartfelt wish for the well-being of oneself and others. It helps soften the heart, allowing us to feel empathy with the happiness and sorrow of the world. Metta practice cultivates the innate friendliness of an open heart by inclining the heart toward expressing wholesome intentions. Recognizing and expressing goodwill may evoke feelings of love, tenderness, and warmth, or expose
difficult or painful buried emotions. Allowing all these emotions to surface in their own time is one function of loving-kindness practice.

During this retreat, we deepen our understanding of how the practices of mindfulness and loving-kindness support one another. Mindfulness is the practice of being present: a quality of attention that allows present moment experience to be known without preference, without resisting or attempting to manipulate or change it. Metta practice is the caring quality of awareness: a sensitivity and warmth that allows us to respond with kindness and compassion, receptive and responsive.

During the retreat, we will use both silent sitting and walking practice, Dharma talks, and small group discussion as vehicles for this exploration. Individual meetings with the teacher and group dharma discussion will round out our exploration of what it means to practice in challenging times.

The retreat brochure and registration information can be downloaded here : https://wellspringvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DICAPUA-RETREAT-brochure-October2019.pdf.

It can also be found on the meditation page of the Wellspring website at: https://wellspringvt.org/meditation/