For Immediate Release:
Insight Meditation Community Presents A Weekend With Luisa Montero-Diaz
The Insight Meditation Community of Lewes (IMC-L) presents “Cultivating Our Wholesome Qualities: Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity,” for a Friday evening talk and Saturday retreat with returning meditation teacher Luisa Montero-Diaz, November 6 – 7 in Lewes.
Buddhism holds one can cultivate inherent wholesome qualities, referred to as the Brahma Viharas, that are always accessible and limitless. These divine or heavenly abodes are Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita) and Equanimity (Upekkha).
An introduction to these qualities will be the focus of the First Friday Dharma talk at Saint Peter’s Parish Hall in Lewes from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. On Saturday, a full day of practices to cultivate these wholesome qualities will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Biden Center in Henlopen State Park in Lewes.
Luisa Montero-Diaz has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 20 years. She completed the first three-year Community Dharma Leadership program offered by the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She has been affiliated with Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC since its inception.
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Parish Hall is at second and Mulberry Streets in Lewes. The suggested donation is $5.00. The Biden Center in Henlopen State Park is located at 42 Cape Henlopen Drive in Lewes, 1/2 mile past the Cape May-Lewes Ferry Terminal. The suggested donation is $45.00, which includes lunch. Chairs are provided, and attendees should bring their favorite floor cushions or blankets. Biden center passes are available that morning at the park office. The door opens at 8:30 a.m. For any questions and to help plan for lunch item quantities, please reserve with Nick Edge at 302-945-4094 or edgeconick@comcast.net.
For directions to the Biden center, scheduled events and weekly meditation meetings, please visit www.IMC-Lewes.org.
