Thursday, October 23-Sunday, October 26, 2025
Living the Heart Sutra: A Path to Happiness
A (Mostly Silent) Weekend Retreat with Dharmacharya Leslie Rawls
Wellbeing Retreat Center, Tazewell, Tennessee
Sometimes we seem to live in the Beatles’ song “I, Me, Mine”: grasping, competing, comparing, blaming, separating ourselves from others and the world. The Heart Sutra invites us to step beyond this limited view and into the beauty and expansiveness of emptiness and interbeing. In this retreat, we will study and practice with the Heart Sutra’s teachings, perhaps moving beyond intellectual understanding and into realized experience of the teachings. Activities will include silent and guided sitting meditation, group walking meditation, Dharma talks, private practice interviews with Leslie, and personal practice time. On the last day of the retreat, Leslie will offer a transmission ceremony for friends who would Iike to formally receive one or more of the Five Mindfulness Trainings.
Suitable for experienced practitioners and newcomers.
Register with this link or at wellbeingretreatcenter.org.
Sponsored by Mountain Solid, Water Reflecting Sangha, Knoxville, Tennessee.
www.knoxmindful.org
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The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation offers “The Raft” to nurture our mindfulness practice. Each issue includes a Dharma talk, guided meditation, upcoming online events, and other resources for your mindfulness practice, such as toolkits for kids, reflections by monastics, poetry, visual art, and more! https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/the-raft