About the Retreat

Foundations of Meditation 2 is for practitioners who have basic meditation experience and are ready to explore the deeper teachings of the Buddhist path.

While Foundations 1 emphasizes how to practice, Foundations 2 turns more fully toward understanding introductory Buddhist teachings. Through extended practice sessions and dharma talks, participants explore themes such as suffering, impermanence, emptiness, and compassion—not as abstract philosophy, but as direct insight within practice.

Teachings may include the four noble truths, the changing and conditioned nature of experience, and the cultivation of compassion as an expression of wisdom. Silence plays a stronger role in this retreat, allowing experience to mature beyond the formal session into post meditation practice.

Foundations 2 invites a shift from meditation as a method for calm to meditation as a path of transformation. As clarity deepens, the heart naturally opens. Practice becomes less about self-improvement and more about understanding our shared human condition.

 This retreat is appropriate for those who are ready to engage the Buddhist teachings more directly.