Meditation Retreat

Path of Awakening Buddhist Center Hybrid Meditation Retreat

October 22-29, 2022

Karmé Chöling Meditation Center, Barnet, Vermont and Online

More than twenty people participated in the very successful one-week meditation retreat at Karmé Chöling Meditation Center in Barnet, Vermont.

Our regular daily schedule was:

7:00 am: Sitting and walking meditation
8:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am: Sitting and walking meditation, interviews, talk, discussion groups
9:15 am: Chants with online meditators, tonglen
10:15 am: Talk and discussion groups
11:15 am: Sitting and walking meditation, interviews
12:30 pm: Lunch and rest time
2:00 pm: Sitting and walking meditation, interviews
3:15 pm: Shamatha Yoga
4:00 pm: Tea
4:30 pm: Sitting and walking meditation, protector chants
6:30 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Sitting and walking meditation
8:00 pm: Hybrid Zoom sitting and walking meditation, tonglen, evening chants
8:45 pm: End meditation

The retreat was a wonderful opportunity for participants to deepen their practice and understanding. It went without a hitch, due in part to the excellent support from the staff at Karmé Chöling Meditation Center. Plans are already aborning for a retreat in 2023.

In addition, on Friday night there was a celebratory dinner with toasts, offerings (poems), and much laughter. Saturday we meditated and read the Sadhana of Mahamudra in the morning, ending the retreat at lunch.