Vipassana Retreats:

How To Realise Ever-Present Mindfulness

‌‌Teachers / Jonathan Preboy and Anna Scharfenberg
15-25 January - 10 days
19-21 January - Weekend
21-25 January - 4 days

The aim of insight meditation is to understand reality, to see things as they really are. The main tool of insight meditation is mindfulness: mindfulness of body, feelings and mind. Ajahn Tong states that "attending a meditation retreat is training in the power of mindfulness. With intensive practice the wandering, struggling and chaotic mind can become composed, peaceful, refreshed and purified of negative hindrances."

The BRC staff and teachers will provide their whole-hearted support, including daily reporting, loving-kindness meditation (Metta) and Dhamma talks. The 10 day retreat will overlap with the weekend retreat (19-21 January) and the 4 day retreat (21-25 January).

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains - Ramana Maharshi

Jonathan Preboy and Anna Scharfenberg

Jonathan Preboy and Anna Scharfenberg trained in Vipassana meditation under the great Thai Vipassana master Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo. Jonathan worked as a clinical psychologist in private practice in Durban and Anna holds a Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies. They have taught meditation together at Wat Chom Tong Meditation Centre in Thailand, Mexico, Italy, Spain and South Africa (the BRC, Dharmagiri and Emoyeni) and currently manage and teach at the Tisarana Vipassananusorn Meditation Centre in Prague.