Beyond Your Story: Emptiness of Self in Insight Meditation and Contemplative Prayer

Name: Beyond Your Story: Emptiness of Self in Insight Meditation and Contemplative Prayer
Start: 2025-10-11T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 10:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States | Salisbury, MA

Please join Ted Jones, a meditation teacher with North Shore Insight Meditation Community, for a 2.5-hour program in Salisbury, Mass., focused on ideas of self and emptiness of self in insight meditation and contemplative prayer.
Emptiness of self has been described as the crown jewel of the Buddha's teaching. In the Christian tradition, the concept of kenosis (self-emptying) is identified by Ted's late uncle, Father Thomas Keating, as a cornerstone of contemplative prayer. Central to each is the view that self is not something that we are but something that we make, through the “Story of Me” that we construct about ourselves. This retreat will explore how these two teachings can inform one another and intersect in the depths of interior silence.
This retreat will be conducted mainly in silence, with guidance provided during the periods of meditation and prayer. This program is open to anyone with an established practice in either insight meditation or centering prayer.
Ted Jones, a nephew of Father Thomas Keating, has been practicing insight meditation since 1978. He spent his professional career in mental health as a therapist, clinical supervisor, and program manager.