Introduction to Insight Dialogue and Embodied Justice

Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings the mindfulness, tranquility and insight of traditional silent meditation into our direct experience with others. Practicing the Insight Dialogue guidelines strengthens our inner sense of relatedness.  Moving in the world with a strong sense of relatedness can enable us to use every human encounter as a step on the path of wakefulness, transforming relationship, itself, into a source of support for insight and compassion.

This series is an invitation to learn and practice the Insight Dialogue guidelines more deeply by recognizing how cultural conditioning and systemic inequity are embodied interpersonally. In culture, there are particular internalized and externally enacted cultural habitual patterns that create suffering for others and oneself.  We all live with these patterns and the suffering associated with them.  In this series, we will explore how suffering is generated by how we embody and receive cultural/systemic patterns of injustice, inequality and social change. With this, we can discern how we can support one another in living with such difficulties with wisdom and compassion.