Dharma Talk With Steven Smith Thrs 31 March 2011

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Dharma Talk with Steven Smith

Thrs 31st March

24/03/2011

by Cittasamvaro

Long term Vipassana retreat teacher Steven Smith is in Bangkok and will give a public talk for us on Thursday 31st March 2011, at Ariyasom Villa:

‘The Four Foundations’

Dharma Talk

with Insight Meditation teacher Steven Smith

Thursday 31st March, 2011

at Ariyasom Villa Boutique Hotel, Bangkok

Sukhumvit Soi One

We’re glad to welcome as a guest speaker for our Little Bangkok Sangha long term Vipassana (Insight) Meditation teacher Steven Smith for a dharma talk.

Steven has been teaching insight meditation for a long time, and is well known for his compassionate and pragmatic teachings. In 1984 he co-founded the thriving Vipassana Hawaii community project, which now runs long and short retreats year round.

6-6:45 pm gather and refresh at Ariyasom

7-8 Dhamma Talk

8-8:15 ish questions

Topic: Four Foundations of Mindfulness

This is a ‘back to basics’ talk in so far as this particular teaching is central to all Buddhism. It is the primary text on meditation that we find in the original teachings of the Buddha, and thus is something that all yogis should know about. For those who are more experienced meditators, it is a topic that can never be contemplated too much. Steven has been teaching full retreats on these Four Foundations for decades! Usually one will take a 10 day course to cover them one by one… but here we’ll try to put the outline into one evening.

Directions for this event:

Could not be easier – go down Sukhumvit Soi One, right to the end, and Ariyasom is on the left.

more info:

http://littlebang.org/2011/03/24/dharma-talk-with-steven-smith-thrs-31st-march/