Jhāna Practice · Student of Ayya Khema
Leigh Brasington
American meditation teacher and former software engineer, a student of Ayya Khema best known for teaching the jhānas — deep states of meditative absorption.
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Jhanas and Insight Retreat at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (April 2028)
An eleven-day retreat on the jhānas and insight, with Leigh Brasington teaching via Zoom and a co-teacher present in person at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
“What I want to teach is the Jhanas as a meditation technique and how that technique fits into the broader spectrum of sila, samadhi, pannya: morality, concentration, wisdom.”Leigh Brasington
Teacher
Meet Leigh Brasington.
Path
The wider context.
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Lay practice, Burmese roots
Insight Meditation
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
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Barre, Massachusetts, United States
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Barre, Massachusetts, United States