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
RESCHEDULED: Exploring & Embodying the Refuges in Today’s World
Madeline’s in-person workshop Exploring & Embodying the Refuges in Today’s World Retreat (originally scheduled for Saturday, April 25) will now be held Sunday, May 31 from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Join the CIMC 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 Programs
Fathomless Treasures (in-person)
Thursdays, April 30 – June 18, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Practice Group with Madeline Klyne
Cultivating Loving Awareness & Embodied Practice (POC retreat) (in-person)
Sunday, May 3, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Retreat with Gina LaRoche, Melanie Cherng
Evocative Questions: Loving, Letting Go, and the Dharma of Aging (online)
Tuesday, May 5, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (ET)
Benefit with Olivia Hoblitzelle, Zeenat Potia
Liberating the Heart (hybrid)
Saturday, May 9, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Exploring & Embodying the Refuges in Today’s World (in-person)
Sunday, May 31, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Workshop with Madeline Klyne
Our Drop-ins
Please check the drop-in page or the calendar to make sure a drop-in is happening and if it’s 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
• Chronic Illness & Disability: one Sunday a month, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
• 35 & Under: two Sundays a month, 6:30 – 7:45 PM