Metta for Vipassana

with Venerable Virañani

October 10 - 24, 2026

Date and Time Details: Arrive on Saturday 10 October between 4 - 6 pm, Finish 1pm after lunch on Saturday 24 October

Location: Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Address: 25 Rutland Rd, Medlow Bath 2780

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

Course Code: VV1-26

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

The practice of loving-kindness (mettā bhāvana) aims at the cultivation of a loving, benevolent attitude towards all living beings. Since the time of the Buddha, this form of meditation has been used as a practice in itself, and as a support for the development and deepening of insight (vipassanā bhāvana)

This retreat is ideal for meditators looking to experience the relationship between metta and insight practice with the aim of deepening insight.

About the Teacher

Venerable Virañani

Ayya Vīrañāṇi began to practise meditation in 1979. In 2003, after several years working at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA, and training in the Thai Forest tradition, she began a period devoted to intensive practice in the Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. She took permanent ordination in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita on […]

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Category : Residential Retreat