Two week retreat

with Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor

September 12 - 26, 2026

Date and Time Details: Arrive Friday 12 September between 4pm and 6pm.
Finish Sunday 21 September with lunch.

Location: Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

Address: 25 Rutland Rd, Medlow Bath NSW 2780

Contact: office@bmimc.org.au
(02) 4788 1024

Course Code : PK2-26

Female Single Room – AUD $1,255.00
Male Single Room – AUD $1,255.00
Single Room (Any Gender) – AUD $1,255.00

Concession discount available upon registration for people who are unable to afford the full price due to financial hardship.

Two Week Retreat

In this retreat we will practise mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken for granted as “real” or “normal.” In this new world, we discover what the Buddha calls Dharma, the way life actually flows, and learn to live flourishing lives that benefit both us and those around us.

About the Teachers

Patrick Kearney

Patrick Kearney is an independent dharma teacher in the lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw of Burma, his principal teachers being Paṇḍitarama Sayādaw and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen Buddhism. His original teacher was Robert Aitken Roshi, and he is now studying with Paul Maloney Roshi. Patrick has a particular […]

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Louise Taylor

Louise Taylor is a meditation practitioner with over 20 years’ experience and has been teaching since 2018. Her practice is influenced by the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. Her principal teachers are Patrick Kearney and Subhana Barzarghi, with influences from Rob Burbea, Joseph Goldstein, Carol Perry, Sayador U Tejaniya, Sayadaw U Pandita, Ajahn Cha and of […]

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Category : Residential Retreat