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WEST BATH The Dzogchen Meditation Center presents a free public talk today, followed by a weekend meditation retreat.

Shamatha Meditation: The Practice of Resting in Awareness is the retreat theme.

The public talk, Nine Techniques for Resting the Mind, begins at 7 p.m. tonight.

The retreat continues Saturday and Sunday.

The point here is to achieve an even and completely balanced state of being by means of these nine techniques for resting in shamatha discipline. We begin to have a good relationship with ourselves. That is the foundation of Buddhist practice in general, states Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

According to a news release from the center, The practice of calm abiding meditation or shamatha as it is known in sanskrit is the practice of settling the mind in the state of present awareness. When our minds are present and relaxed we feel a sense of freedom, wholesomeness and connection with our environment. Mind and body are snychonized in one-pointed nonwandering awareness.

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Meditation weekend starts with free talk