In what ways can an attraction towards the ‘Beyonds’ serve our deepest values in the world?

Growing out of an understanding of the Buddha’s teachings of emptiness, as well as the practices of mindfulness, metta, and samatha, soulmaking practices open our senses of sacredness and meaningful participation in the cosmos.

Through wisely discerning explorations of our ways of looking, of imagination, and of the movements of desire, we liberate beauty, discovery, and creativity, and extend our ranges of experience, insight, and freedom.

On this retreat you will be supported to become more skilled and steady in the arts of imaginal perception and discern the next steps for your path of practice. This will include: becoming familiar with different entry points for imaginal perception, refining your capacities to work with Imaginal Images and contemplating “Blessed and Beloved Beyonds,” through Soulmaking Dharma ways of looking.

The retreat will be mostly silent and alongside sitting and walking meditation will include facilitated interactive exercises, movement/dancing, and shared liturgy and ceremony with some optional periods of informal time together.

A consideration regarding carbon emissions from Catherine:

Like some of you, I have been grappling with the ethics around Dharma events and carbon-intensive forms of transport that might be involved in traveling to retreat venues, particularly flying. Whatever you decide about this particular retreat in terms of travel, we would like to affirm, in the spirit and example of Rob, a rigorous turning towards these questions as a part of our Dharma practice in this era of climate crisis and ecological breakdown. If you have attended a Fall online program, wanted to come to a Soulmaking retreat and decided not to for these reasons, please let Catherine know via contact@buddhistinquiry.org subject: Carbon consideration: FAO Catherine