What’s New At Insight Meditation Center
Saturday July 26, 2025 9:30 am – 4:30 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: bruni dávila This daylong retreat will include guided meditations, dharma talks, and alternating periods of sitting and walking. Instructions and guidance on mindfulness of breathing, body, emotions, thoughts, and open attention will be provided. This daylong retreat is an opportunity to strengthen mindfulness, develop concentration, practice with the IMC community, and ask a teacher questions. Appropriate for beginners and those with more experience. Bring lunch. The…
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1 day Mindfulness of Emotions Online Daylong Retreat with Gil Fronsdal March 21, 2025, Friday, 9:00 am (PT) to 4:30 pm (PT) This daylong retreat will focus on mindfulness instructions for practicing with emotions. The day will include sitting and walking meditations, guided meditation, instructions and opportunities to ask questions of the instructor. The retreat will take place on IRC’s virtual Meditation Hall. After you apply, you will receive an email with a link to the website we use for our online retreats one…
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The ethical core of the Buddhist path is one of its most important features. Maturing on this path goes hand in hand with developing and strengthening this core. Ethics is about both behavior and motivation. Regarding behavior, ethics addresses some of the most challenging, interesting, and at times confusing aspects of our lives, including sex, money, security, power, truth, and questions of life and death. As for motivation, ethics addresses some of the most beautiful aspects of the human heart;…
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The early Buddhist Discourse that was the basis of the 2/9/25 Sunday morning talk titled “Myths to Live By” can be find on the SuttaCentral website here. It is the 26th discourse in the collection called The Long Discourses of the Buddha. As it is a translation, feel free to change some of the translation choices in the myth told in the discourse. For example, you could read it to it is more gender neutral, or have more inspiring near synonyms…
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Rulers honor, respect, and venerate the truth, have truth as their banner and guide. They provide just protection and security for their court, troops, aristocrats, assistants, brahmins and householders, towns people and country people, ascetics and brahmins, animals and birds. They do not let injustice prevail in the country. They provide support for the poor. — The Buddha (from the Great Monarch Sutta; Long Discourses 26)
We can joyfully celebrate that the $70,000 goal for IMC’s fundraising drive for Save the Children has been achieved! Because some donations where sent through IMC, we actually raised just over $100,000! Surpassing our goal is an even greater joy and further nourishes the care-giving attitude in all of us. Thank you to all who donated! If Save the Children can provide us with information for how they used our gift, we will report this here. Donations can still be…
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Saturday, February 22, 2025: 8:30 am — 10:00 am Topic: Biophilia Presented by: Kristen Benson We are living in challenging times and often rely on our experience with nature to deepen and validate our interconnectedness and oneness with nature. This experience is defined by the term Biophilia. Biophilia, a simple term coined by E.O. Wilson is the emotional bond humans have with the natural world and other living organisms. . Eco Buddhist chaplain Kristen Benson has been leading nature walks…
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Saturday March 8, 2025: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in-person at IMC only Offered by: Kim Allen The body is a rich resource for mindfulness practice, continually opening and deepening as we explore it. On this day of practice, we will explore practices based in Buddhist teachings that help us connect to the body, experience it freshly, and invite liberating wisdom and compassion to emerge. This silent daylong is appropriate for beginners and those with more experience. It includes sitting,…
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Saturday, March 22, 2025: 9:30am – 3:30pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Diana Clark Both meditation and poetry can help us step away from the immediate demands of our lives to enter our hearts and minds in a deeper, fuller way. This silent daylong meditation retreat will introduce poems as a support for meditation. The daylong will include poetry readings, silent sitting and walking meditation periods and short talks. It is expected that participants will already have some mindfulness…
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IRC 2025 Winter-Spring 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.
Several of IMC’s Dharma Leaders are offering an opportunity for an individual practice discussion each month. The sessions provide a chance to process your sitting and daily life practice, ask questions, and be heard and supported. Please sign up for only one practice discussion per month so that everyone has an opportunity. Here is the link to sign-up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904044ba9ad2faaf85-imcpractice Please bookmark the link so that you can sign up for a session in future months. New sessions available are posted every two months towards the…
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7:45 a.m., January 24. Everyone who attends the 7:00 a.m. YouTube teaching is welcome to come to this community meeting on Zoom The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82411076883? The passcode is the Buddhist/Pali word for lovingkindness.
Tuesdays Afternoons from January 14 – February 11 — 5 Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm In-Person: Insight Meditation Center, 108 Birch St, Redwood City, CA 94062, USA Mindfulness meditation, also known as insight meditation or vipassana, is a simple technique that concentrates and calms the mind. At the heart of mindfulness meditation is the practice of moment-to-moment observation which cultivates a clear, stable and non-judgmental awareness. While mindfulness practice can be highly effective in helping bring calm and clarity to the…
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Keeping It Simple: A non-residential Insight retreat with IMC teachers Ying Chen, Kim Allen, Diana Clark, and David Lorey Thursday – Sunday, January 23 – 26, 2025: 8:30am – 5pm Location: Los Altos Community Center, Sequoia Room Registration required This retreat offers an intensive retreat experience in a non-residential retreat format. The retreat will include alternate sitting and walking meditation periods, morning instruction, work meditation, and Dharma talks. Teachings will focus on the deep simplicity available in the practice and…
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Topic: COP 29 outcomes and What’s next for us! Saturday, January 25, 2025: 8:30 am — 10:00 am Presented by: Ram Appalaraju On 11/24/2024 the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) closed after two weeks of intense discussions on issues relating to climate change and how it has been disproportionately affecting poorer countries. At the end of the meeting participating countries agreed to a set of outcomes. One of the headlines that describes the outcome is “COP29 UN…
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