Vipassana Meditation weekend

Our life is shaped to a substantial extent by our tendencies: latent, i.e. still hidden; manifest in our thoughts and emotions; and enacted in our behavior. Some of these tendencies are unwholesome: greed, aversion and confusion. They can hinder us and, in some cases, even sabotage the plans we have for our lives.

Vipassana is a practice of body and mind that can help us relinquish these unwholesome tendencies. This is done through the simultaneous training of discipline, concentration and insight. An important tool for developing insight is mindfulness: clear awareness of what happens and of our reactions to it.

At first, discipline restrains enacted tendencies, concentration calms manifest tendencies, and insight exposes and weakens latent tendencies. Eventually, working together, these three skills can uproot latent unwholesome tendencies and foster wholesome qualities such as generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom.

This city retreat weekend offers an opportunity to become more familiar with these processes and to begin applying the three skills directly in our experience. Their potential can be explored more deeply and developed further during intensive vipassana retreats.

> Complete program and timetable here <

Language English translated in Italian

Teacher Henk Barendregt

Italian translation Wanda Ielasi

Dana The retreat is based on the dana (generosity) > More informations <

Reader > Instructions and theory <

Book (as possible preparation, nice books but not compulsory)
Nyanaponika Thera: > The heart of Buddhist meditation <

> Registrations are open <

After registering you will receive a message of your acceptance within ten days

Henk Barendregt (1947) studied Mathematical Logic in 1971 at Utrecht University, where he received his PhD cum laude in 1971 under Dirk van Dalen and Georg Kreisel. His best known works in logic are The Lambda Calculus, Its Syntax and Semantics (translated into Russian and Chinese), 1981, Elsevier, and Lambda Calculus with Types, 2013, Cambridge University Press. Henk Barendregt studied from 1972 to 1979 Zen meditation with Kobun Chino Roshi (1938-2002) in California, and from 1977 to 2006 Vipasssana meditation with Phra Mettavihari (1942-2007) in the Netherlands. In 2006 he was qualified with 13 other senior students to teach vipassana in the style of Mahasi Sayadaw. Henk Barendregt has received substantial research funds from Nijmegen University (1997), the Spinoza award in 2002 from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), and became in 2012 distinguished Lorentz fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies and Leiden University. Given funds enabeled him to direct an interdisciplinary research group towards understanding insight meditation and its effects in neuropsychological terms. Barendregt, Knight in the Order of the Nederlandse Leeuw (Dutch Lion), holds memberships of the Academia Europaea, the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Wanda Ielasi, ethnopsychologist, psychotherapist, psychosocial analyst, qualified Mindfulness instructor – MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) protocol, University of California, San Diego; trained MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion) teacher; member of the Order of Interbeing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh; graduated in Mindfulness -Level 2 Master’s degree: Practice, Clinical Application and Neuroscience, La Sapienza University of Rome. Exploring spirituality in psychotherapy through the MBSR protocol and cross-cultural practices. She loves colours in art and in life.