What’s New At Insight Meditation Center
Saturday, September 6⋅9:00am – 5:00pm at Insight Meditation Center Description:In-person at IMC & broadcast live on YouTube YouTube Livestream | IMC Website Livestream Offered by Tanya WiserRest the mind, abide moment by moment in embodied presence, and nourish the heart. Join us for a day of dedicated practice in this daylong retreat. Together, we will practice mindfulness, allowing our awareness to rest in the heart-mind while cultivating our capacity for wise and caring attention. This retreat offers a supportive environment to…
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2025 – 2026 Eightfold Path Program (Zoom-only this year) Taught by Liz Powell, David Lorey, Chris Clifford, and others One Sunday a month 1:00 to 3:30 pm with a concluding Saturday daylong in June, 2026 The Buddha’s most explicit path of practice is the Eightfold Path—a set of eight practical approaches to bring Buddhist practice into the width and depth of our lives. The Eightfold Path Program is an introduction to each of the Eightfold factors so participants will discover…
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Offered by IMC online on Zoom Fridays, 8:30 AM TO 3:30 PM: Oct 3, Nov 7, Dec 12, Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 20, Apr 10, and May 8 In Buddhism, ethics and awakening are inseparable. The Buddha’s path to awakening is ethical, awakening itself is ethical, and the awakened life is ethical. This eight-month program, starting in October 2025 and ending in May 2026, allows experienced practitioners to delve into important ethical teachings of our Buddhist tradition within a…
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IRC 2025 Summer-Fall Newsletter is available online . You can read past newsletters in both HTML and PDF formats on the Newsletter page of the Insight Retreat Center website.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 11:15AM -12:15 PM In-person at IMC IMC is growing with new participants, new teachers, and new programs. This community meeting will be a time for Gil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of this growth, in the context of IMC being an all-volunteer community based on a culture of generosity. The meeting will include time for the IMC community to ask questions and offer ideas. Gil, who has been teaching at IMC for 35 years, marvels at…
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IMC’s 2025 SummerNewsletter is available online .
Saturday, July 26, 2025: 8:30 am — 10:00 am on Zoom Offered by: Hilary Borison Let’s gather to appreciate how we have been touched by Joanna’s life and teachings by moving through the spiral of gratitude, honoring our pain, seeing with new eyes and going forth. Please bring poems and stories to share. Join us on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87693921552?pwd=9wmEkZKLIbP2TagoJtCNv8mLxbuUmA.1 Meeting ID: 876 9392 1552 Passcode: 797204 One tap mobile +16694449171,,87693921552#,,,,*797204# US +16699006833,,87693921552#,,,,*797204# US (San Jose) If you have any questions, please…
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By Gil Fronsdal The heart has four faces. Each sees the world in a different way and speaks with a different purpose. Yet, as each aspect belongs to the same heart, they are inseparable, like the four directions of a compass. This image of a four-faced heart is borrowed from the Buddhist myth of the god Brahma, who had four faces, one for each of the four kinds of unselfish love championed in Buddhism. In the language of the Buddha,…
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Saturday, June 28, 2025: 8:30 am — 10:00 am Topic: Self-Compassion for Earth Care with Hilary Borison on Zoom For those of us who care deeply about the Earth, we may feel a multitude of difficult emotions around climate change and the lack of concern from leaders — anger, grief and fear. Caring for ourselves as we struggle to care for the planet is essential for our well-being. Please join us for a morning of self-compassion practices to support ourselves…
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Starting in August and September, Gil is teaching two spiritual care program through the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY TRAINING PROGRAM SEP 2025 – JUL 2026 • In Person at IMC with Jennifer Block, Gil Fronsdal, and Paul Haller • On Zoom with Vanessa Able, Dawn Neal, And Trent Thornly 11-month trainings introducing, from a Buddhist perspective, spiritual care skills needed for being a chaplain, Buddhist teacher, or offering spiritual support to people in times of major life…
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9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. With Jennifer Block and Vanessa Able An overview of a chaplain’s work of providing spiritual care and support for people in hospitals, hospices, prisons, and a wide variety of other settings. Information about the Sati Center’s Chaplaincy programs, including the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training taught in-person with Gil Fronsadal, Jennifer Block, and Paul Haller (nd online with Vanessa Able, Dawn Neal, and Trent Thornley.
Saturday, March 29, 2025: 8:30 am — 10:00 am Topic: Developing a community activity Facilitated by: Ram Appalaraju With so many changes going on in the country and particularly regressive actions taken by the government on ecological issues, we as a community have an opportunity to respond. Let’s use our meeting time on 3/29 to brainstorm and develop a program/project that we all can contribute, learn and grow. Please come prepared with thoughts, ideas, proposals etc. We also want to…
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The IMC Spring 2025 Newsletter is available online. You can read past newsletters in PDF format on the Newsletter page of the Insight Meditation Center website. You can also find the Spring Schedule of Events — called the April to June Schedule of Events — under the CALENDAR link on the IMC website.
Tuesdays 7:00 – 8:15pm starting April 1, 2025 Offered by Various IMC Dharma Leaders On Zoom Please join us for this new weekly offering on Tuesday evenings, 7 to 8:15pm. Each online session will include a lightly guided 30-minute meditation, followed by a 30-minute Dharma talk and 15 minutes for questions and discussion. Join Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/TuesdayDharma Meeting ID: 893 3396 7495 ~ Passcode: 235226 Upcoming in April April 1 with Lisa Goddard April 8: with Paul Waters April 15 Ram…
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Sunday, April 20, 2025, 11:30am – 12:30pm with Gil Fronsdal, Ram Appalaraju and Jeff Hardin On Zoom Gil Fronsdal and IMC members founded Insight World Aid (IWA) in 2011 to provide humanitarian aid to challenged communities in the US and abroad. After being dormant for the last few years, it has been revived in 2025! We will discuss our programs and plans and have information for those interested in volunteering. Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84166501245?pwd=Qdb3Rh9e8DUVCVhaFlccnkJ3Ok8qH0.1 Meeting ID: 841 6650 1245…
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