Ayya Virañani METTA

BOOKINGS OPENS 17 JANUARY AT 8:00 AM

Loving-Kindness (Mettā) Retreat

The retreat is open to all and is in English with Italian translation. It includes alternating sessions of sitting and walking meditation,  interviews with the teacher and Dhamma talks every evening. All participants will be asked to respect the Noble Silence and take the eight or five precepts (see explanations on our website).

The practices of mettā and vipassanā meditation are like two good friends, supporting and complementing each other. Mettā meditation strengthens and deepens the heart quality of kindness, friendliness, and benevolence towards all beings and oneself. The kind and benevolent attitude of mettā is a great support, especially when facing difficult experiences, during vipassanā meditation; while the presence of mindfulness supports the deepening of mettā.

Ven. Virañani began to practice meditation in 1979. In 2003, after several years spent working at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA, and training in the Thai Forest tradition, she began a four-year period devoted to intensive practice in the Burmese lineage of Mahāsi Sayadaw. She took permanent ordination in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita on New Year 2006, and now resides at the Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre North of Yangon. She teaches loving kindness and Vipassanā meditation retreats in Burma, Europe, and Australia. In 2008 she co-founded Mettā In Action, a charity devoted to offering Burmese people in need the means and skills to help themselves. She is passionate about the Dhamma, about nature, and about using both to help others rediscover the intrinsic goodness in all beings.

Retreat fee: 350€