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We have affirmed the
Charter for Compassion.
So can you.

November Retreat:
Know Wonder
with Franca Leeson

When: November 24-28, 2010 (Wednesday evening to Sunday afternoon)
Where: Harmony Dawn Retreat, on Rice Lake, 90 minutes NE of Toronto
Cost: TBA
To apply: Apply online here or email

If you've been accepted and want to make a $100 deposit, click the "Pay Now" button to the right. It will take you to Paypal, where you can submit your credit card information securely.

Registration deadline October 15

What do you know?
What do you wonder?

Awakening moments can happen at any time, but they tend to occur when our defenses are down: when our mental gates are left ajar, unattended by our sense of identity. They are like accidents. To paraphrase Trungpa Rinpoche, our task, as meditators, is to become more accident-prone.

How do we do this? Three ways:

By developing stability (so that when awakening accidents happen, we don't immediately pop back into pattern)
By learn new ways to engage concept (so that thinking and speaking can serve awareness rather than reinforce patterns)
By practicing open awareness (so that opening becomes more natural in a wider range of mindstates)

Take a weekend to practice being accident-prone through breath meditation, insight techniques, and direct awareness.

This retreat is most suitable for people with at least a year of meditation experience and a consistent daily practice, although less experienced meditators can be accommodated with some preparatory work.

Please register for the retreat by March 1 to ensure your place.

Harmony Dawn Retreat is located on Rice Lake just 90 minutes northeast of Toronto in Northumberland County. It was constructed to inspire harmony, balance and transformation, making it ideal for healing and transformative retreats and workshops. The retreat building, surrounded by meadows and woodland, is independent of outside utilities and away from public roads due to solar and wind power as well as other sustainable energy technologies.

Franca Leeson

I have been teaching Buddhist meditation in meditation centres, community centres, and in private sessions since 2000. I've also presented meditation and creativity sessions at Mindcamp in Toronto since 2003, at the CREA (Creativity European Association) Conference in Italy since 2005, and at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in 2007. Click here for more information about me.

Look Again classes are scent-free! A number of students are sensitive to scented products, and suffer greatly if exposed to perfume or scented soap or hair products. Please avoid using any scented products at all on any meditation class day.

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