Weekend Retreat with Bhante Pañña (In Person & Online)
DATE
TIME
Zoom Link here (unless registration or email required – see description below)
Saturday & Sunday Retreat
Dates: June 28-29, 2025 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT
Friday Evening Program
June 27 7:00 PM – 9 PM PT
Description:
The Zoom link to the weekend retreat will be emailed to registered participants prior to the event.
Please join us for an in person and online non-residential weekend retreat with Bhante Pañña, who is visiting us from Vietnam. There will be a Friday evening program and a weekend retreat. No registration is required for the Friday evening program. Registration will be required for the weekend retreat. We’ll publish more details on this page as they become available. We look forward to seeing you.
This event is an urgent call to awaken from distraction, let go of limiting attachments, and seek true refuge in the Dharma. Modern life pulls us in countless directions, leading to suffering, confusion, and disconnection. Through Buddhist teachings—supported by insights from the Qur’an and the Bible—we will explore how to break free from these cycles, reorient ourselves toward wisdom, and build a sanctuary for spiritual cultivation. Join Bhante Panna and Seattle Insight for an evening and weekend of talks, guided meditations, and Q & A sessions.
Bhante Pañña’s Bio
Bhante Pañña is the first melanated American of Aboriginal descent to have ordained in the Thai Forest tradition. He is a Seattle native who has been a world traveler since the age of nineteen, living extensively throughout northern Africa and the Arabian gulf, beginning in 1998. He has been a student of religious knowledge and a practitioner of many paths within the field of Islam and esoteric knowledge. Through these rich experiences, Bhante deepened his spiritual understanding. He eventually ordained as a Buddhist monk in Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
He took up higher ordination as a full-time monk (Bhikkhu) in Siam Reap’s mountain jungle temples. He is currently living in northern Thailand, furthering his development of meditation and cultivation of the mind, and factors that trigger the actions we engage, in the way of the Forest Monk practice.
Taking dependency within the Dhammayut order, Bhante’s vision is to create healing in the heart and mind using the art of Vipassana meditation as taught by the Buddha. Bhante aims to establish a community of practitioners and those that have taken ordinance to create the first forest monastery for people of color who are healing from the disparity of discrimination and social injustice based on exclusion from being able to heal in a way that we see fit to heal, without intervention from traumas, past or present.
Use of the triple gem, love, kindness, mercy, compassion, and the establishment of traditional formal meditation will be the driving force to which Bhante Pañña would like to apply our healing transformation.
Questions
For questions about the retreat, please contact registrar@seattleinsight.org.
Registration & Donation
This weekend retreat includes a hybrid (online and in-person) Friday night program and an Online weekend non-residential retreat. No registration is required to attend the Friday night program.
Registration for the weekend retreat is required. All ticket holders for the weekend non-residential retreat receive the Zoom link via email the day before the event. If you need to cancel your registration, please email registrar@seattleinsight.org prior to the beginning of the event.
Your registration donation covers the cost of organizing the event only and does not go to the teacher. Dana (freely-offered giving) for Bhante Pañña can be made via this link: https://wise.com/share/nathanb1344
Donations to Seattle Insight Meditation can be made here. Thank you for your generosity.
Teacher/Organizer
Event Venue
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Saturday & Sunday Retreat
Dates: June 28-29, 2025 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT
Friday Evening Program
June 27 7:00 PM – 9 PM PT
Description:
The Zoom link to the weekend retreat will be emailed to registered participants prior to the event.
Please join us for an in person and online non-residential weekend retreat with Bhante Pañña, who is visiting us from Vietnam. There will be a Friday evening program and a weekend retreat. No registration is required for the Friday evening program. Registration will be required for the weekend retreat. We’ll publish more details on this page as they become available. We look forward to seeing you.
This event is an urgent call to awaken from distraction, let go of limiting attachments, and seek true refuge in the Dharma. Modern life pulls us in countless directions, leading to suffering, confusion, and disconnection. Through Buddhist teachings—supported by insights from the Qur’an and the Bible—we will explore how to break free from these cycles, reorient ourselves toward wisdom, and build a sanctuary for spiritual cultivation. Join Bhante Panna and Seattle Insight for an evening and weekend of talks, guided meditations, and Q & A sessions.
Bhante Pañña’s Bio
Bhante Pañña is the first melanated American of Aboriginal descent to have ordained in the Thai Forest tradition. He is a Seattle native who has been a world traveler since the age of nineteen, living extensively throughout northern Africa and the Arabian gulf, beginning in 1998. He has been a student of religious knowledge and a practitioner of many paths within the field of Islam and esoteric knowledge. Through these rich experiences, Bhante deepened his spiritual understanding. He eventually ordained as a Buddhist monk in Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
He took up higher ordination as a full-time monk (Bhikkhu) in Siam Reap’s mountain jungle temples. He is currently living in northern Thailand, furthering his development of meditation and cultivation of the mind, and factors that trigger the actions we engage, in the way of the Forest Monk practice.
Taking dependency within the Dhammayut order, Bhante’s vision is to create healing in the heart and mind using the art of Vipassana meditation as taught by the Buddha. Bhante aims to establish a community of practitioners and those that have taken ordinance to create the first forest monastery for people of color who are healing from the disparity of discrimination and social injustice based on exclusion from being able to heal in a way that we see fit to heal, without intervention from traumas, past or present.
Use of the triple gem, love, kindness, mercy, compassion, and the establishment of traditional formal meditation will be the driving force to which Bhante Pañña would like to apply our healing transformation.
Questions
For questions about the retreat, please contact registrar@seattleinsight.org.
Registration & Donation
This weekend retreat includes a hybrid (online and in-person) Friday night program and an Online weekend non-residential retreat. No registration is required to attend the Friday night program.
Registration for the weekend retreat is required. All ticket holders for the weekend non-residential retreat receive the Zoom link via email the day before the event. If you need to cancel your registration, please email registrar@seattleinsight.org prior to the beginning of the event.
Your registration donation covers the cost of organizing the event only and does not go to the teacher. Dana (freely-offered giving) for Bhante Pañña can be made via this link: https://wise.com/share/nathanb1344
Donations to Seattle Insight Meditation can be made here. Thank you for your generosity.