What’s New At Insight Meditation Center
As we participate in our democracy, may we be guided by the ten virtues of political leadership: May we be generous, so everyone is supported. May we have integrity, so everyone trusts us. May we renounce selfish interest, so everyone benefits. May we be honest, so everyone hears what is true. May we be kind, so everyone can relax. May we have self-control, so everyone will be safe. May we be free of ill-will, so everyone can speak freely….
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Saturday, October 26, 2024: 8:30 am — 10:00 am on Zoom Offered by Alex Julie Topic: Reconnecting with Nature Through Water to Create a Life-Sustaining Society for All Beings The Ocean is the source of all life on our planet, and it can also be a fertile ground for deep embodied insight. With our Ocean on the brink of climate induced collapse, the urgency of reconnection has never been greater. Join Awake in the Wild meditation teacher Alex Julie as…
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Thursday, October 17, 2024: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm on Zoom Longtime IMC member Mick Bennett died on August 4. Mick served on the IMC Board and was the much loved founding teacher for the Chronic Disease Support Group and the Life-Threatening Illness Support Group. IMC’s support group, which is a continuation of what Mick started, will offer an open Online ZOOM session on Oct 17th 1-2:30pm PT to remember the founding leader, Mick Bennett. All are welcome to join….
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Saturday, October 19, 2024: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Dawn Neal
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.
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by Gil Fronsdal To care and offer care are fundamental expressions of Buddhist life. The Buddha himself was called “The Caring One” who taught out of his care for others. After his first students became enlightened, he instructed them to live for the welfare and happiness of others out of “care for the world.’ In the Buddha’s teachings “care” is the basic attitude and motivation for benefiting others. As such, it can be seen as the foundation for both compassion…
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Saturday, September 21, 2024: 9:30 am – 12:15 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Tanya Wiser This half-day of mindfulness practice will include guided or lightly guided meditations, a brief dharma talk, group discussion, and mindful activity. This is an opportunity to deepen your meditation practice and daily life practice, ask a teacher questions and practice with other sangha members. Mindfulness meditation half-days are appropriate for beginners and those with more experience. Registration is not required. Bring lunch. 9:30 –…
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Saturday, September 7, 2024: 6:00 am – 9:00 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: bruni dávila This is a great opportunity for a full day of immersion in silent Dharma Practice. Practicing mindfulness on retreat is one of the foundations for maturing insight meditation. The simplicity, silence and support of retreats contribute to letting go of many of the distractions that get in the way of clear seeing. Retreats also are a wonderful environment for developing a continuity of awareness…
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Friday, August 16, 2024: 9:00 am – 12:15 pm Potluck Lunch: 12:30 – 1:30 pm Location: Hidden Villa in the Dana Center 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Everyone is invited to a morning of mindfulness meditation instruction, teachings, and practice. Gil Fronsdal, who taught retreats at Hidden Villa for ten years, is back to share his love for mindfulness practice and for Hidden Villa, a place well suited for meditation connected closely to the natural world. The…
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Saturday, August 17, 2024: 9:30 am – 12:15 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Tanya Wiser This half-day of mindfulness practice will include guided or lightly guided meditations, a brief dharma talk, group discussion, and mindful activity. This is an opportunity to deepen your meditation practice and daily life practice, ask a teacher questions and practice with other sangha members. Mindfulness meditation half-days are appropriate for beginners and those with more experience. Registration is not required. Bring lunch. 9:30 –…
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Saturday, September 14, 2024 9:00 am – 4:00 pm In-person at IMC and on Zoom. Register online to get the Zoom link. Co-sponsored by the Sati Center and the San Francisco Bay Parisā — an assembly of people dedicated to practicing in line with Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s teachings Stream-entry — also known as the arising of the Dhamma eye — is a momentous occasion in the practice. The first glimpse of the deathless, it makes irrevocable changes in the person who…
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Saturday July 13, 2024 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in-person at IMC only Offered by: Kim Allen Breath meditation is a foundational practice that can be immediately accessible, and yet also unfold to deeper layers over many years. This daylong retreat is an opportunity to connect or re-connect with the simplicity and richness of the breath. Our day will include guided and silent meditations, dharma teachings, and walking meditation. Classical instructions and guidance on mindfulness of breathing will support the opportunity to…
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Registration is now open for the 2024 – 2025 Eightfold Path Program (In-Person and Zoom) Taught by Tanya Wiser, Liz Powell, Chris Clifford, and others One Sunday a month, beginning Sept 2024, 1:00 to 3:30 pm with a concluding Saturday daylong in June, 2025 **Here is the link for more information and registration**
In September 2024 IMC’s sibling organization, Sati Center is offering its 22nd yearlong INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY. Started by Gil Fronsdal, Jennifer Block, and Paul Haller, this is an eleven month training in spiritual care skills that lay at the foundation of professional and volunteer chaplaincy work in such places as hospitals and prisons. It is also a training in basic spiritual and pastoral care offered in a Sangha, or Buddhist community. Since 2020, the original INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY…
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4 Monday evenings, June 24 – July 15, 7:15 to 8:30pm Basic instructions in mindfulness meditation taught sequentially, starting with mindfulness of breathing, followed by mindfulness of the body, emotions, thinking, and the application of mindfulness in daily life. No pre-registration is necessary. Offered in-person and broadcast live on YouTube. The link for watching on our YouTube channel is here (If you’d like to donate to the teacher or to the center, you can visit IMC’s donation page here)
with Anne Roise On Zoom (link below) This Juneteenth, the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) invites you to join us in honoring the end of slavery and the ongoing journey toward freedom for all people. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, commemorates June 19, 1865 – the date when the last enslaved African Americans in Texas finally received word of their emancipation. On Wednesday, June 19th, at 6 pm, we will gather via Zoom to reflect on the…
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