Postponed: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life Retreat
with Donald Rothberg
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the weekend retreat is postponed.
In meditation as well as in daily life, “doing” and skillful effort are vital, and it’s important to learn better how to be more skillful in one’s efforts to be aware, wise, and compassionate in both meditation and daily life. On the other hand, it’s also central to learn better how simply to “be,” in meditation and daily life, to be able to let go of doing at times and become more receptive to life and the moment. Our doing, in other words, can sometimes be “overdone” and it can be helpful to inquire into any habitual sense that we have of being a “doer.”
In this retreat, we will explore these themes as well as examining what is taught in many spiritual traditions, including the Buddhist tradition, that a central deeper expression both of meditation and daily life can be understood as a kind of profound “non-doing” that paradoxically can also be a basis for action and doing, a “doing coming out of a deep not-doing”! The weekend will involve periods of silent practice, daily life practice, short talks, and discussion.
Registration is closed – the weekend retreat is postponed
If you have already registered, we will contact you soon.
If you have any questions, please contact registration@nyimc.org.
Teacher(s)
Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD, is a member of the Teachers Council at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA, a guiding teacher for the Marin Sangha, and a regular teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, Southern Dharma Retreat Center, InsightLA, and New York Insight. He has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976 and also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice, in the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy, and in the Somatic Experiencing approach to working with trauma. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook University, he currently teaches and writes on mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, and the application of these and other practices to transforming the judgmental mind, speech and communication, working with conflict, social service, and social action. Donald is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers.