Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
is a welcoming refuge and teaching center for all who seek inner peace and wise action through the liberating practice of Insight Meditation (vipassana).
CIMC is dedicated to integrating contemplative practice into daily life. We seek to cultivate ethics, tranquility, wisdom, and compassion, and to ease suffering in our communities and in our world.
What We Offer
Announcements
Join Madeline Klyne for a Walk in the Park this Sunday
Join Resident Teacher Madeline Klyne for a community walk through Mount Auburn Cemetery, this Sunday, June 7. Participants are invited to gather in the Asa Gray Garden at 2pm. No registration is necessary.
Pilgrimage to India and Nepal in 2027
Join Narayan Helen Liebenson, Matthew Hepburn, and Dharmacharya Shantum Seth for a transformative two-week journey that will allow you to experience the life of the Buddha through the places he lived and taught. In the Footsteps of the Buddha is an unforgettable opportunity to explore areas that few tourists visit and to see and experience aspects of contemporary Indian life that, in many ways, have not changed since the time of the Buddha.
RECENT NARAYAN DHARMA TALK
Click here to listen to Narayan’s Dharma Talk from October 22, an introduction to the Way of Council.
Upcoming Registration Programs
Anattalakkhana Sutta – Another Way to Know Ourselves: The Buddha’s Second Teaching (in-person)
Weekend, Jun 6 & 7, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Retreat with Matthew Hepburn
A Walk in the Park: Mindfulness and Connecting with CIMC Community at Mount Auburn Cemetery (in-person)
Sunday, June 7, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Special Event with Madeline Klyne
Cultivating Our Inner Life: A Day of Practice (online)
Sunday, June 14, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Matthew Hepburn
Has Meditation Become a Self-Improvement Project? (hybrid)
Sunday, June 28, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Retreat with Matthew Hepburn
Training the Mind in Turbulent Times (online)
Tuesdays, July 7 – July 28, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM (ET)
Practice Group with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Our Drop-ins
No registration is required for these regularly scheduled programs. Please check the calendar to make sure a drop-in is happening and whether the session is in person, online, or hybrid.
• Dharma in Daily Life: Weekdays, 8:45 – 9:00 AM (Zoom link)
• Evening sit: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 6:00 – 6:45 PM
• Teatime Dharma: Mondays, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
• Sitting & Sangha: Mondays, 6:00 – 7:15 PM
• Beginners Drop-In: Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
• Beginners Drop-In Tea: 2nd Tuesday, 7:00 – 7:45 PM
• Wednesday Evening Dharma: 6:30 – 8:45 PM
• Thursday Morning Retreat: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
• Sunday Afternoon Extended Practice: 2:00 – 5:15 PM
Affinity groups:
• Elders: two Tuesdays a month, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
• Parents: one Thursday a month, 8:00 – 9:15 PM
• POC: one Friday a month, 6:30 – 8:15 PM
• LGBTQIA+: one Friday a month, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
• Disability & Chronic Illness: one Sunday a month, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
• 35 & Under: two Sundays a month, 6:30 – 7:45 PM