This Friday drop-in practice group meets the second and fourth Friday of each month. It is open to both newer and experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners with a dedicated meditation practice. Contemplations are based on the Whole Life Path work of Gregory Kramer with emphasis on learning and reviewing the Insight Dialogue guidelines. Session format includes silent practice, a contemplation offered by the facilitator, and Insight Dialogue practice. The online session will take place via Zoom (web video conferencing). Facilitators include Anita Bermont, Deborah Ennis, Marsha Lawson, and Moriah Armstrong. Please contact Anita Bermont for a brief interview prior to check…

Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific offers an online study and practice series which meets twice a month on Wednesday morning (Asia/Aust/NZ) or Tuesday afternoon (Americas). This group is based in Australia. The Divine Abidings and an Ethical Life The four brahmavihāra are at the heart of ethics, and ethical living becomes the embodiment of the brahmavihāra on the path to freedom. We will return to the “divine abidings” of the four brahmavihāra, the heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. Together, we will go deeper into how they support us to live a more ethical life and how, in…

and Manuela O’Connell From Non-Becoming (Anatta) to True Care is an invitation to soften the boundaries of who we think we are and rest in luminous openness— the natural clarity of awareness itself. When the self loosens its grip, a quiet spaciousness appears: wide, tender, and naturally responsive. In this offering we will explore anatta not as the fading of a person, but as the unveiling of the ground where presence expresses itself as care. Through stillness and Insight Dialogue practice, we will touch the moment where clinging to identity dissolves and compassion arises effortlessly, like warmth from the sun.…

Watch the Program Video and Hear from the Teachers This eight-week series for white-bodied people integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. We will explore and co-create anti-racist culture within a dedicated, compassionate community of study and practice. Through present-moment awareness we may better understand, without judgment, the impact of racism and our own cultural conditioning. In addition to being conditioned by culture, history, and power relations, from a Buddhist perspective racism is rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. Racism is both historical and contemporary. Unless examined, it will continue to cause harm. This…

The four brahmavihāra are at the heart of ethics, and ethical living becomes the embodiment of the brahmavihāra on the path to freedom. In the first half of this year, the Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific group offered a series exploring the five indriya, five spiritual faculties. Following on from that exploration, we will return to the “divine abidings” of the four brahmavihāra, the heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. Together, we will go deeper into how they support us to live a more ethical life and how, in turn, an ethical life is an expression of a…