Indriya Retreat Vipassana

Meditation centre offering silent 10-day and 21-day vipassana retreats

25/06/2025

Dear Dhamma Friends, Meditators and Yogies,

Vipassana Retreats on Koh Phangan

July 11th - 21st
August 11th -21st
September 11th - 21st

www.indriyaretreat.org/application

Discover Clarity and Freedom Through Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation taught according to the monastic tradition of Thailand and Myanmar and the original Pali Teachings.

Learn with Anthony Markwell, a dedicated Dhamma teacher with over thirty years of meditation experience, including more than a decade as a monk, and who interprets the Buddha's teachings directly from the original Pali texts.

You will learn to:
* Calm the mind (upasama) and cultivate inner peace.
* Develop clear insight (ñāṇa) into the nature of reality.
* Break free from reactive patterns that cause suffering.
* Gain a direct experience of the present moment.

These are the core teachings of the Buddha, preserved within the Theravada tradition for 2,600 years.

"Just as the ocean has a single taste of salt, the entire Dhamma has one taste: the taste of freedom."
— Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.19

For more information, visit us at https://indriyaretreat.org/

Contact email: contact@indriyaretreat.org
or WhatsApp/Telegram +668 3593 3597

Retreat Structure:

•Registration: 10am on Arrival Day (11th)
•Orientation: 3pm on Arrival Day
•Conclusion: 10am on Departure Day (21st)

Secure your spot by applying here. Payment online secures a place in a meditation hut. Cash payment on-arrival also available.

https://indriyaretreat.org/application

What to Expect

•Daily meditation instructions and Dhamma talks in fluent English (2 hours) with Anthony Markwell.
• Personal interviews with our team to refine your practice.
• Silent, intensive 5am - 9pm retreat
• Daily yoga, chanting and loving-kindness

Accommodation: Single rooms (shared if the retreat is full)

Two vegetarian meals daily, plus afternoon beverages and fruits.

What to Bring: Passport, water bottle, flashlight, medications, soap, towels, tampons, mosquito repellent, and loose-fitting attire covering knees and shoulders. Arrive rested for the best experience—consider a day of rest beforehand.

Fee: 10,000 baht covers 10 nights accommodation and all meals. Plus you can stay an extra night or two for free after the retreat to slowly integrate back into the supportive community!

www.indriyaretreat.org/application

The Buddha’s teachings are offered freely as a Gift of Dhamma. Donations to support the teacher and center are welcomed at the end of the retreat.

Join us nestled at Indriya Retreat in our 6 rai compound in Coconut Lane between Hin Kong and Sri Thanu, Koh Phangan.(just use google maps: Indriya Retreat Vipassana)

Contact us at WhatsApp: +668 3593 3597 or explore more at https://linktr.ee/indriyaretreat

Step into a life of greater peace and understanding. We look forward to seeing you on the mat.

02/06/2025

Daily Meditation Practice
Vs
Intensive Meditation Retreat

Daily practice:
• Builds consistency and resilience
• Helps you stay grounded in the ups and downs of everyday life
• Strengthens the “muscle” of awareness through repetition
• Easier to integrate into real-world habits and routines
• Short sessions (even 10–20 mins) compound over time

Intensive Retreat:
• Offers profound insight and accelerated inner clarity
• Removes distractions — allowing for focused transformation
• Helps break old patterns with immersive support
• Allows space for spiritual breakthroughs
• Ideal to deepen your practice and develop wisdom

Do you have a daily practice?

Are you ready for an Intensive Retreat?

If you'd like more information on upcoming retreats, visit us at Indriyaretreat.org

23/05/2025

Tired of your own thoughts?

The inner noise never stops... Worrying, judging, analyzing.

Satipathanna teaches how to observe mental states as they arise. In Vipassana, thoughts are not enemies. They’re just another object to observe.

The more we identify with our thoughts the more tired we become. Vipassana helps us to create space between you and the mind.

You are not your thoughts, thoughts come and go... Awareness stays present.

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Are you ready for a Vipassana Retreat?

17/05/2025

Stimulation VS. Silence

Stimulation is constant input.

It keeps us reactive, scattered, and exhausted. When the mind is constantly engaged by noise, tasks, and information, the nervous system stays in low-grade fight-or-flight.

Silent is Space.

In silence, the mind slowly unwinds. You stop reacting and start noticing. It’s the first step toward nervous system repair.

Vipassana & the Power of Silence

10 days. No phone. No speech. No escape. Just… you. Vipassana teaches you to notice everything — thoughts, pain, emotions — without getting swept away. Silence makes that possible.

Silence is not empty. It’s full of answers.

Would you try 10 days of silence? Drop a “yes”, “someday”, or “no way” below.

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12/05/2025

Have you ever wondered what happens when you sit in silence for 10 days?

We follow the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, a Burmese meditation master know for his technique of "noting and knowing", that is mentally labeling each present moment experience.

All mental and physical phenomena are noted as the arise, exist, and pass away. They are known as impersonal phenomena and let go of. This development of mindfulness reveals the nature of all mental and physical phenomena as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not mine.

The practice is deep and profound, we practice from before sunrise in the morning until the late evening.

No phones, no talking, no distractions...

This allows us to break old mental patterns, to reveal the root cause of stress and suffering, and to return to inner contentment.

Would you try a 10 - day silent retreat?

Comment with a "yes" or "no way" or share your experience below...

For more information,
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07/05/2025

When is last time you practiced cultivating loving kindness, happiness, joy, and peace?

Metta

The practice of loving Kindness…

We intentionally create, cultivate, and develop both pleasant and joyful thoughts and sensations.

First, we stablish these intentions and feelings internally

we then direct them to the world.

First, to loved ones…

Then to strangers…

Then to challenging individuals…

And then to all beings everywhere…

The results? As we think about ourselves less, cultivating a pleasant and peaceful mind, our suffering decreases, happiness increases.

Metta, one of the 4 Brahmaviharas, the 4 Divine Abidings, is one of the 4 most pleasant states for the mind…

04/05/2025

Save this if you're craving clarity. Tag someone who needs a deep reset.

Vipassana is your chance to reset 🙏

29/04/2025

Next Retreat begins June 11th-21st Live with Anthony!

Discover Clarity and Freedom Through Authentic Vipassana Meditation

Seeking a direct path to insight and liberation from suffering?
Explore Vipassana meditation, taught according to the original Pali Suttas.

Learn with Anthony Markwell, a dedicated Dhamma teacher with over thirty years of meditation experience, including more than a decade as a monk, and who interprets the Buddha's teachings directly from the original Pali texts.

You will learn to:
* Calm the mind (upasama) and cultivate inner peace.
* Develop clear insight (yathābhūta-ñāṇa) into the nature of reality.
* Break free from reactive patterns that cause suffering.
* Gain a direct experience of liberation (vimutti).

These are the core teachings of the Buddha, preserved within the Theravada tradition for 2,600 years.

"Just as the ocean has a single taste of salt, the entire Dhamma has one taste: the taste of freedom."
— Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.19

Begin your path to clarity and freedom now.

Fro more information, visit us at https://indriyaretreat.org/

or WhatsApp/Telegram +66 94 321 7528

Retreat Structure:

•Registration: 10am on Arrival Day
•Orientation: 3pm on Arrival Day
•Conclusion: 10am on Departure Day

Secure your spot by applying here: https://indriyaretreat.org/
Pre-booking isn’t required, but we recommend registering early to reserve a meditation hut.

What to Expect

•Daily meditation instructions and Dhamma talks in English (2 hours) with Anthony Markwell.
•Personal interviews to refine your practice.
•Silent, intensive retreat—participants stay on-site for the full 10 days.

Accommodation: Single rooms (shared if the retreat is full)

Two vegetarian meals daily, plus afternoon beverages and fruits.

What to Bring: Passport, water bottle, flashlight, medications, soap, towels, tampons, mosquito repellent, and loose-fitting attire covering knees and shoulders. Arrive rested for the best experience—consider a day of rest beforehand.

Cost: 10,000 baht covers 10 nights, meals, and beverages, payable at registration. The Buddha’s teachings are offered freely as a Gift of Dhamma. Donations to support the teacher and center are welcomed at the end of the retreat.

Join us nestled on Coconut Lane between Hin Kong and Sri Thanu, Indriya Retreat is your sanctuary for growth and discovery.

Contact us at WhatsApp: +66 94 321 7528 or explore more at https://linktr.ee/indriyaretreat

Step into a life of greater peace and understanding. We can’t wait to welcome you!

28/04/2025

The meditation bell is your call to become present, here and now.

If you wish to understand the nature of the mind, the nature of reality, you must take time for silence, for internal stillness - free from external distractions. We take this time for ourselves, to allow the mind to settle.

Much like a glass of muddy water - while it is stirred, we cannot see clearly. But when we allow the external agitations to cease, the glass finds stillness, the mud settles, and we can see through the water with clarity.

A Vipassana retreat offers the opportunity to let the mind settle, free from the disturbances of daily life. As the mind quiets, we begin to see its true nature. Through the development of present-moment awareness, we understand each experience as it arises, exists, and passes away.

It is only through this Clear-Seeing, this present-moment awareness, that the nature of reality is witnessed. Every experience, whether mental, physical, or emotional, is seen as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not truly mine. Anicca, dukkha, anatta - the three marks of existence - are deeply understood.

Why would we want to recognize each moment with these three marks? Because it allows us to let go, to detach from personal entanglement, and to reduce our suffering. This is not about escaping life, but about experiencing its truth. The pleasant moments can be enjoyed more fully; the unpleasant can be accepted with greater ease.

We become free from the defilements of mind: lobha, dosa, moha — greed, hatred, and delusion. In their absence, we are liberated to experience the four divine abodes: metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha — loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

We move towards contentment, and contentment is the cause and condition of true happiness. As we become content, happiness arises naturally.

We look forward to meeting you and sharing this profound practice - to guide you into the present moment, and into a deeper understanding of the nature of reality, the mind, and the human experience.

10-Day Silent Vipassana Retreats
Begin May 11 and June 11

Retreats are primarily in English, but the teaching is akso available in Russian language.

Join us and reconnect with your inner stillness.

Register at indriyaretreat.org
Or contact us via WhatsApp / Telegram: +66 94 321 7528

25/04/2025

Why Practice Vipassana?

You don’t need to be a monk to benefit from meditation.

You don’t need to live in a cave to find peace.

Vipassana—the practice of deep insight—gives ordinary people the tools to live with extraordinary clarity.

In daily life, this practice helps you:
• Respond instead of react
• Navigate stress with calm awareness
• Relate to others with more patience and compassion
• Feel more grounded, even when life gets messy
• Understand the roots of your own suffering—and begin to release them

This is not about escaping the world.
It’s about meeting it fully, with awareness.

Silent Vipassana retreats begin May 11 and June 11

Join us and reconnect with your inner stillness.

Register at Indriyaretreat.org or message us here or on WhatsApp +66 94 321 7528

23/04/2025

Next Retreat May 11-21, June 11-21

Our training in Satipatthana Vipassana follows the teachings of the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw and many other teachers and disciples from his lineage.

The Mahasi Sayadaw served as the chief questioning monk at the Sixth Buddhist Council in Burma from 1954 to 1956. Among the 2,500 senior monks from various countries present at the international symposium to authenticate the Pali texts, he was universally recognized as thoroughly learned and deeply practiced.

Today, in both Thailand and Myanmar, ordained monks and nuns attending Buddhist universities are required, as part of their bachelor’s and master’s curriculum, to study, learn, and practice the Mahasi method of Satipatthana Vipassana.

Within the circle of practice, among enlightened meditators, many masters teach the Mahasi method—even after decades of training in other forms of meditation.

Why?
Because it works.
It is authentic.
It is efficacious.
It leads to the desired results.

Our next retreats begin May 11 - 21 and June 11 - 21

Come and experience this living lineage in a supportive and silent container.

Contact us at Indriyaretreat.org to register.

Space is limited.