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IMC 2025 Fall Newsletter is available online

IMC 2025 Fall Newsletter is available online

The IMC Fall 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 Fall Schedule of Events — called the Oct to Dec Schedule of Events — under the CALENDAR link on the IMC website.

Saturday Sep 20: LGBTQIA2S+ Mindfulness Half-Day Retreat with Tanya Wiser

Saturday Sep 20: LGBTQIA2S+ Mindfulness Half-Day Retreat with Tanya Wiser

Saturday, September 20, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Tanya Wiser This half-day retreat offers a welcoming space for those who identify as LGBTQIA2S+. It’s a special opportunity for our community to come together in mindfulness, presence, and shared practice. The morning will include guided meditations, a silent sit, a short dharma talk, mindful activity, a group practice discussion, and time to enjoy lunch together in community. This is a chance to deepen your meditation…

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Monday Sep 22: Autumnal Equinox walk In Edgewood Park with Kristen Benson

Monday Sep 22: Autumnal Equinox walk In Edgewood Park with Kristen Benson

Monday September 22, 2025: 11:00 am to 2:30 pm Let’s meet in the Edgewood Park parking lot at 11am for a 3+ mile hike — approximately 3 hours. What: We will celebrate this celestial event walking through local ecosystems with some periods of silence bringing our awareness to the present, paying attention to our senses. There will be a time of sitting with a ritual; and a gathering together. Join: Kristen Benson, an Eco Buddist Chaplain through Sati Center. A…

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Saturday Oct 4: Matcha Mindfulness: Cultivating Sensory Awareness through the Way of Tea

Saturday Oct 4: Matcha Mindfulness: Cultivating Sensory Awareness through the Way of Tea

Saturday, October 4, 10:00am – 12:15pm In-person only at IMC Offered by: Nancy Hamilton Capacity is limited, advance registration requested Mindfulness of the body is a rich area of Buddhist practice. It is also foundational to chadō, or the Way of Tea, a collaborative practice of generosity and openness in which embodied awareness paves the way for deep connection, perception, and communication. As participants to a tea gathering, we will explore how mindful attention to sensory experience prepares the mind…

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Eightfold Path Program on Zoom for 2025-26

Eightfold Path Program on Zoom for 2025-26

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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Oct-May: The Equivalence of Ethics and Enlightenment Course with Gil Fronsdal

Oct-May: The Equivalence of Ethics and Enlightenment Course with Gil Fronsdal

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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The success of IMC’s fundraiser for Save the Children

The success of IMC’s fundraiser for Save the Children

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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Individual Practice Discussions with IMC Teachers/Dharma Leaders

Individual Practice Discussions with IMC Teachers/Dharma Leaders

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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2024-2025 Eightfold Path Program (In-Person and Zoom)

2024-2025 Eightfold Path Program (In-Person and Zoom)

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**  

YouTube: Sitting and Dharmette with Matthew Brensilver — Weekly starting Wednesday April 3

YouTube: Sitting and Dharmette with Matthew Brensilver — Weekly starting Wednesday April 3

Wednesdays 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm starting April 3, 2024 Offered by Matthew Brensilver On YouTube YouTube Livestream | IMC Website Livestream William James said the aim of all education is to make one’s nervous system an ally rather than an enemy. Given the sensitivity of our body and mind, given the changingness of all things, given imperfection — what is possible for us? The dharma path is an honest exploration of the human condition and a discovery of the…

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Zoom: Weekly Sunday Sangha Meeting Following the Dharma Talk

Zoom: Weekly Sunday Sangha Meeting Following the Dharma Talk

Weekly on Sunday: 10:45 – 11:30 am on Zoom Build and maintain community by connecting online with other IMC sangha members to discuss the Sunday dharma talk and share about our Buddhist practices. Please join us on Zoom each Sunday following the dharma talk at approximately 10:45 am for about 45 minutes for breakout rooms and/or large group discussions. Facilitated by Jan Messer and Barry Rothman, IMC sangha members. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84009542053?pwd=V09IOXJhOHZ2TnovMGpiK2s3V243Zz09 Meeting ID: 840 0954 2053 Passcode: Sangha…

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IMC Speaks Out Against Anti-Asian Violence

IMC Speaks Out Against Anti-Asian Violence

This statement is also available in PDF format We are heartbroken by the horrific surge in relentless, unprovoked harassment and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Since March 2020, the Stop AAPI Hate organization reports nearly 4,000 incidents of anti-Asian hate, of which nearly 44 percent occurred in California—and many more cases go unreported.  The Insight Meditation Center (IMC) and its community open our hearts to the pain of anti-Asian hate, bearing witness to the suffering and…

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