This retreat is hosted by Big Bear Retreat Center, not InsightLA.
For any questions or support for registering or preparing for this retreat, contact guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.
For more details and to register for this retreat, visit the Big Bear Retreat Center’s website: Ethics and Love in Interpersonal Life [On line]
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This event page is the online version of a hybrid retreat which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the in-person version of this event, click here.
A dharma program with Matthew Brensilver, open to both beginners and experienced practitioners.
*5-day Retreat (in-person & online) + 6 week course*
We live in a web of mutuality; the interpersonal realm is where the rubber meets the road in our spiritual practice. Our relationships – personal and professional – act like a magnet, pulling both our goodness and our pain to the surface. How can we draw on dharma principles and practices to enrich our interpersonal lives? How can others serve as mirror for our inquiry into ourselves?
The Buddhist tradition provides ethical guidance: lives founded on goodness, sensitivity and respect give us the best chance for deep happiness. Love fuels our ethics and guides us to more rich, harmonious relationships. Self-understanding dramatically deepens our empathic capacities and through our practice, the circle of care widens. As Sri Nisargadatta says, ‘In love, there are no strangers.’
This dharma program will begin with a five-day retreat, offered both in-person at the Big Bear Retreat Center or available to participants online. Although oriented around interpersonal themes, the retreat will be held in silence rather than interactive in nature. Ordinarily, retreats end and we return to our lives to integrate the experiences of the silence on our own. Here, the teacher will be providing support beyond the retreat to further cultivate and digest the fruits of retreat practice. The retreat will be followed by six, hourlong, weekly online meetings that will integrate and explore the teachings offered in the retreat.
This dharma program is co-sponsored by Big Bear Retreat Center and Insight Retreat Center.
All are welcome.
Dates for the program are as follows:
In-person and Online Retreat: (must attend all dates)
April 16th – 20th, 2025
Online Integration Sessions via Zoom: (please plan to attend all sessions)
April 24th: 7pm – 8pm PT
May 1st: 7pm – 8pm PT
May 8th: 7pm – 8pm PT
May 15th: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm PT
May 22nd: 7pm – 8pm PT
May 29th: 7pm – 8pm PT
Registration for this retreat closes on April 14th, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
