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Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority
With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang and Brent Beresford
Please join us on select Mondays to cultivate a space to learn, share, and deepen in this relational practice of meditation. This is a group meant for people who self-identify as BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority. Together we will explore the teachings of the Buddha using Insight Dialogue guidelines. We will cultivate internal and interpersonal awareness, wisdom, care, and resilience to meet the challenges of our lives.…]
Art and Soul: Anicca and Friendship
With Janet Surrey
Listening Deeply Together - Offered in Response to This Moment
With Gregory Kramer
Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Asia, Africa, Europe time zones)
With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler
This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately […]
Holding the Unbearable Together
With Rosalie Dores and Fabiana Gomes
An Insight Dialogue Circle for Our Times for Members of IDC Teaching Community and Teams There are moments in history when the weight of the world is not abstract. It lives in our bodies, in our breath, in the quiet pauses between words. Wars, genocide,violence, injustice, displacement and the fractures within our human family reverberate […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines
With Rachel Hammerman
Het pad naar bevrijding, een levensomvattend pad
With Chris van der Velden
De Boeddha gaf het nobele achtvoudig pad als weg naar vrij worden van lijden. Tijdens deze cyclus, van zes bijeenkomsten, onderzoeken we de eerste vijf padfactoren: * wijze visie * wijze intentie * wijs spreken * wijs handelen * wijs levensonderhoud * Met Insight Dialogue cultiveren we meditatieve kwaliteiten, ontwikkelen we meditatie-in-relatie en contempleren we gezamenlijk over onderwerpen […]
Art and Soul: Anicca
With Deborah Ennis
NIVARANA - Los Cinco Obstáculos
With Sandra Ramos Amézquita and Fabiana Gomes
Una mirada desde el Dhamma relacional Los cinco obstáculos son conocidos en la filosofía budista como una de las enseñanzas clave para quienes inician el camino de la meditación. Al navegar por los suttas, notamos cómo el Buda vuelve una y otra vez a los obstáculos como una invitación a investigar: ¿Qué se revela cuando […]
From One, To Two, To Many: The Dharma-Power of Specific Relationships
With Gregory Kramer
Join Gregory for this Sangha Live Sunday Session. Specific relationships are each a nexus of power in the larger human system. The naturally intense energies and tendencies of the mind are not only amplified and their potency for action accelerated, but specific relationships also function as a vector for proliferation from the individual mind out to other nodes of the system. Relationships are the point at which the energy of individuals transduces into the larger group and social systems. Relationships are the crucible in which thoughts turn into actions. This is why Dharma friendship and sangha are such gems in […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue for the Asian Diaspora
With Yenkuei Chuang
Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Genevieve Heng
Art & Soul: Anicca Dukkha
With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson
Exploration des Cinq Facultés Spirituelles
With Patricia Genoud-Feldman and Sandrine Rauter
Art and Soul: Mother's Day
With Janet Surrey
Sources of Joy and Sources of Sorrow
With Gregory Kramer, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Riët Aarsse and Asaf Federman
In times of global turmoil, how do we cultivate joy, wisdom, and inner balance? How do we meet the sorrows of the world without being overwhelmed? This six-day retreat invites us to explore how joy and sorrow arise in the body-heart-mind—both in silence and in relational contact with others. Drawing on the Buddha's teachings, we […]
Meditating in Relationship: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Sandra Ramos Amézquita and Michele Zukerberg
How do we grow compassion in these relentlessly challenging times? Interpersonal relationships can be a source of stress and conflict. They can also be a profound resource for waking up to living healthy, connected lives. Insight Dialogue is a Buddhist-based interpersonal meditation practice that brings the power of meditative awareness into the context of relationships. […]
Gemeinsam wach durch Achtsamkeit- Meditationsseminar im Schweigen mit Einsichtsdialog
With Ayya Anopama
In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Kraft der stillen Meditation und die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs in uns selbst und mit anderen präsent sein können. Die sechs Meditationsleitfäden des Einsichtsdialogs unterstützen uns dabei, Achtsamkeit und Geistesruhe zu kultivieren, während wir gemeinsam verschiedene Aspekte unserer menschlichen Erfahrung in der Unmittelbarkeit des gegenwärtigen Augenblicks […]
Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path
With Elizabeth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Anita Bermont
“The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path provides a wiser way through life than any offered by our conditioning. It’s an intentional path through life’s tangle. And intention is necessary. Any change for the good must face the momentum that made things as they are now. Old habits run deep within us; we complicate, palliate, protect and […]
Finding wisdom and compassion in relationship
With Emma Donaldson-Feilder
How can we best navigate relationships in a world context that seems to bring daily heightening of turmoil, uncertainty and threat? The need has never been greater for us to find compassion and wisdom in all our interactions with our fellow beings and the world. During this in-person retreat day, we will explore relational aspects […]
Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response
With Rosalie Dores
These Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat days will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha's teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times.Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking and listening, […]
Relational Meditation-Retreat: An Opening to Spirit
With Rosalie Dores
Gemeinsam Erwachen: Vipassana-Einsichtsdialog Retreat
With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Ayya Anopama
In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Meditationspraxis des Einsichtsdialogs in uns selbst und miteinander präsent sein können. Durch das Sprechen aus der Stille und das tiefe Zuhören wird die Achtsamkeit und Geistesruhe der stillen Vipassana-Meditationsübung in die Interaktion mit anderen eingebracht. Das ermöglicht uns Dinge, die wir normalerweise in der Geschäftigkeit […]
Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik
In times of rapid change, ecological fragility, and social unrest, our habitual patterns—of perception, thought, speech, and reaction shape our inner experience and view of the world. This retreat invites us to the immediacy of each moment and the quiet joy of simply being here, now. Together, we will explore the transformative potential of relating […]
Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response
With Rosalie Dores
These Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat days will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha's teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times.Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking and listening, […]
From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue
With Gregory Kramer
After some time with the teachings, practitioners can recognize when the Dharma is alive and when it is dry. There are attitudes and practices that support us in transforming what might be a conceptual understanding of the Dharma to a vibrant, intuitive, embodied experience. This retreat is about feeling the Dhamma as alive here and […]