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 is Professor Emeritus of Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), as well as a respected Vipassana meditation teacher. He studied Zen meditation from 1972 to 1979 with Kobun Chino Roshi (1938–2002) in California and Vipassana meditation from 1977 to 2006 with Phra Mettavihari (1942–2007) in the Netherlands. In 2006, he was certified (along with 13 other senior students) to teach Vipassana meditation in the style of Mahasi Sayadaw. Barendregt received significant research funding from Radboud University (1997), enabling him to lead an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the scientific understanding of mindfulness meditation and its neuropsychological effects. A Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Barendregt is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014, he was a guest at *Torino Spiritualità* festival, and since 2017, he has participated in *Cari Maestri* project curated by the tardito/rendina company.

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.