One Step at a Time–Finding Peace in This Moment
A Two Day Non-Residential Vipassana Retreat With Susan Stone

February 2-4, 2007
Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

We each want peace, equanimity, clarity, and loving kindness—all of the desirable qualities that are cultivated through our mindfulness practice. And we want these things right away, feeling that something is wrong when we’re not experiencing them. We are discontent with our discontent. However, the only time and place where peace, etc., can be found is now and here, and the way to find them is by identifying and embracing our resistance to the content of this moment, however painful or unjust that content may be. This is a tall order. In this non-residential weekend retreat, we will focus on practicing mindfulness in order to recognize our resistances and on loving kindness in order to embrace them; in this way we enable ourselves to take one step at a time—this step—in peace.

Susan Stone, Ph.D., has practiced formal meditation for 25 years in the Zen and Theravada traditions. She has lived in Zen and Theravadan monasteries for 3 years. Ordained as a Zen lay priest, Susan is author of At the Eleventh Hour (Present Perfect Books 2001), about Mindfulness and caregiving. The book was nominated for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year award for 2001. She is co-author of The American Mosaic (McGraw Hill 1995), about workforce diversity; and is author of articles on Mindfulness.  Susan co-leads the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville, Virginia (www.imeditation.org). She also teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Virginia, founded a Mindfulness group at a maximum-security men’s prison, and currently co-leads a similar group at a women’s prison in Virginia. She is a hospice volunteer and Reiki master who has worked with AIDS patients. Susan leads meditation retreats and workshops in a multi-state area. Her teaching increasingly is centered in nondualism.

The retreat will be held in the meditation hall at the Ecumenical Buddhist Society, 1015 W. Second Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. For additional information and registration, visit http://ebslr.org/event_susan_stone.html