Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path

“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 meander. …

If we truly aspire to ending our personal ignorance and craving, supporting relationships rooted in mettā and compassion, and contributing to human flourishing and a just and humane society, then we need a fully immersive, always-on engagement with the Noble Eightfold Path. We need to engage the Buddha’s path as a whole-life path.” – Gregory Kramer

In 2026, the global Insight Dialogue community will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Gregory Kramer’s book, A Whole-Life Path. The Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific practice community will join that celebration by exploring the Noble Eightfold Path, using Gregory’s book as a resource. We invite you to purchase this book (those in Australia may wish to purchase the book here or here, those in New Zealand here, and those internationally can find other options to purchase here), as a support for your practice and exploration. This is recommended, not required.

Over the course of the whole year*, we’ll discover how the eight factors can be strengthened in both silent and relational meditation and in every moment of our daily lives, powerfully supporting our progress on the Buddha’s path to freedom.

* We will offer a total of eighteen practice sessions, spread over three series of six meetings, with a one-month break between each series.

• Series 1 (Feb 4 – Apr 15) will focus on the Wisdom aspect of the path: Wise View and Wise Intention.
• Series 2 (Jun 2 – Aug 18) will focus on Ethics: Wise Speech, Wise Action, and Wise Livelihood.
• Series 3 (6 Oct – 15 Dec) will focus on the Meditative factors of the path: Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, and Wise Samādhi

It is most ideal if you are able to attend the full year and benefit from the journey through the Whole Life Path together. However, you are also welcome to join one or more of the series. Within each series, the sessions build on the teaching and practice from the preceding session, so we request that you commit to attending all six sessions in each series; this course is not intended to be a drop-in group.

More about the Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific (IDAP) practice community:

Gregory Kramer began visiting and teaching in Australia in 2004. From there, seeds of the practice and this community were planted. We are grateful for the stewardship of the teachers over the years (Gregory, Beth, Jill, Anita), as well as the originating organising members (Susan Burgoyne, Jane Southwell and Ruth Yeatman). Today, IDAP is sustained by the ongoing support of the current IDAP committee and its regular practitioners.

We invite you to join this committed practice community. Together, we aim to create a supportive container that offers continuity and consistency, so practitioners can dive deeper into the Buddha’s teachings. The roots of this group are in Australia but it has grown to include and welcome practitioners from around the world.