Beauty and Insight - A retreat on perception
October 30 - November 6, 2026

This retreat is an invitation to look closely at how experience takes shape—how we see, feel, and make meaning of the world around us. Drawing on the Buddhist teaching of the Five Skandhas, we’ll explore perception not as a fixed or neutral window onto reality, but as an ongoing, interactive process—woven from sensation, memory, habit, and a sense of self that’s always in motion. One way we speak of insight is as ‘seeing things as they really are.’ But this phrase—yathābhūtadassana in Pali—doesn’t mean seeing the world without interpretation. Instead, it invites us to notice how perception actually works: as…