Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

Humans are relational beings — pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together.  Much of our suffering is people-suffering.  We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the “island universe” of the individual self even as we seek freedom.

Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma.  The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others.  Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.

In this non-residential retreat we will move between individual and relational meditation. When we are not practicing Insight Dialogue, we will be supported by noble silence.

DANA: Registration fee does not include payment for the teacher. A gift to the teacher may be offered at the event. Please see NY Insight’s dana page for more information on this practice.