All Day Insight Meditation Retreat

A day of extended silent practice with sitting and walking meditation.  Half-day participation is also welcome.

All are welcome to join the MUUF Buddhist Sangha’s All Day Insight Meditation Retreat in Chu Family Hall on Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Insight meditation (“vipassana” in Pali), is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body process. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness thatlife inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace. In the face of change, wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principles of our lives.

Leading our retreat is Dennis Maurer. Dennis has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1972. He lived and practiced and taught as a monk at the Integral Yoga Institute for eight years. He began practicing and studying Insight Meditation in 2000. His teachers include Narayan Liebenson and Michael Grady. He has been teaching in the Insight tradition since 2006 and is the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of New Jersey.

Please bring your own lunch; water and green tea will be available. You may bring your own sitting equipment (cushions etc.), or use the chairs and cushions provided in the Hall.If you wish to attend for a half day, you are very welcome to do so for the morning. The retreat will provide an opportunity for extended silent group practice, with both sitting and walking meditation.

Please RSVP by November 13th.

For more information, please contact Amy Cartwright and Lisa Hatala at meditation@muuf.org