This retreat will be offered residentially in Barre and Leigh will facilitate and conduct interviews virtually via video conference. Participants will listen to Dharma talks in the meditation hall together and will need to bring their own devices, including headphones, to participate in interviews from their rooms.

This retreat combines the two main elements of the Buddha’s model of liberation: cultivating the meditative absorptions (jhanas), which lead to calm and clarity; and using the concentrated mind to gain insight into the nature of reality. We will explore the insight practices given in the famous Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and we will also delve extensively into the Buddha's teaching of the dependent origination (paticca samuppada) of phenomena. This retreat is limited to those who have completed at least two one-week or longer silent vipassana retreats. This retreat will be offered on a lottery basis.