Finding Our Way Home: A Half Day Retreat with Enrique Collazo
START DATE: Saturday, March 28, 2026
END DATE: Saturday, March 28, 2026
TIME: 9:00 am
- 1:00 pm
REGION: Portland, OR
ORGANIZATION: Portland Insight Meditation Community
TEACHER: Enrique Collazo
CONTACT PERSON: Melissa Sheets
CONTACT NUMBER: 503-519-9686
EMAIL: office@portlandinsight.org
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Drawing from the Buddha’s teaching on dependent origination (the 12 links), we’ll explore how suffering is not a personal failure, but a conditioned process. And how perception leads to emotion, emotion to reaction, and reaction to deeply wired patterns. Rather than using this insight to judge ourselves, we’ll practice meeting these patterns with care through the Brahmavihāras: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In this way, insight becomes not a weapon against ourselves, but a doorway to care, forgiveness, and connection.
This retreat will include:
- Guided mindfulness and heart-based meditation
- Short dharma teachings on compassion, insight, and liberation
- Optional gentle movement and embodied practices to support presence and nervous-system regulation
- Relational reflection and community connection
- Time for silence, inquiry, and integration
All are welcome. No prior meditation experience is required. Come as you are.
COST: Suggested Donation: Benefactor $80 Sustaining $65 No one turned away for lack of funds
SOME CITIES CLOSE BY: Vancouver, Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro, Portland
ADDRESS:6536 Southeast Duke Street Portland Oregon 97206 United States.