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High Altitude Meditation retreat invites you to set aside preconceptions, examine inner patterns, and rediscover a living presence of awareness itself. Delson and Doug discuss and explore how to bring stability, wisdom, and ease into meditation and everyday life. This approach welcomes routine activities as important and instrumental opportunities for awakening. Thoughtful interactive group dialog and critical thinking makes this retreat distinctive.
The course structure is ideal for dedicated practitioners to move beyond belief and techniques by cultivating deeper understanding through exploration and experience leading to insight and awakening.
Themes and Subjects
• Working skillfully with distractions
• Objectless meditation
• Awakening factors
• Karma and causality
• The nature of subjective experience
• Nirvana as an object
• Beyond the jhānas
• Stabilizing in the unconditioned
Doug Kraft, M. Div.
Delson’s co-teacher Doug is a highly respected meditation teacher, psychotherapist, retired Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He is widely known for offering advanced meditation instruction that is clear, practical, and grounded in direct experience.
For many years, Doug has guided serious meditators seeking deeper insight and lasting progress. As Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Easing Awake Sangha, he emphasizes ease, receptivity, and kindness in practice. Rather than striving or forcing concentration, his approach supports the natural unfolding of awareness. As a result, meditators learn to move skillfully through the stages of meditation with clarity and balance.
Importantly, Doug draws directly from the earliest Buddhist teachings. He combines this with decades of retreat leadership and psychological insight. His knowledge and wit provides a rare opportunity to deepen meditation, develop insight, and experience lasting ease and freedom of mind. He is the author of High Altitude Meditation: A Practical Guide to Advanced Buddhist Meditation, along with six more books on meditation available HERE.