Name: Contemplating Reality
Start: 2025-04-18T08:30:00+10:00
Location: Online & Rigpa Sydney

What happens when you combine the peace, clarity and spaciousness of meditation practice with a profound and insightful exploration of Buddhist philosophy?
Join Andy Karr and Lynne Friedman on this eight-day urban retreat, for a meditative journey combining Western inquiries into the nature of consciousness with classical Buddhist investigations into the nature of mind. Through contemplative practices, guided exercises that unpack difficult concepts and encourage experiential understanding, and a generous program of meditation sessions, this retreat will open the way for you to discover and embody deep insights into the nature of reality, the vast compassionate potential of our own heart and mind, and the buddha nature that is within each of us.
Drawing on the insights laid out in Andy Karr’s two books Into the Mirror and Contemplating Reality, this retreat provides an accessible, structured entry way into Buddhist philosophy and powerful examples of how that philosophy can be put into practice in our daily lives.
📍In person at 158 Australia St, Newtown & Online

About Andy Karr
Andy Karr has practiced and studied the dharma for over fifty years under the guidance of such great masters as Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. He is the author of Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality and Contemplating Reality. He is also the co-author of The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes.
About Lynne Friedman
Lynn Friedman has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since the mid 1970s and has been teaching shamatha-vipashyana meditation in his tradition for 35 years. She had a long career as a software architect, and is now the director of the Chögyam Trungpa Digital Library, a project to transcribe and make available to the public the entire collection of recorded teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche.

Bookings: https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1249&reset=1