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.
2026 CIMC Membership: Join or Renew Now
Your 2026 CIMC membership offers benefits that will support and deepen your own practice and help make CIMC a welcoming community for all.
What We Offer
Announcements
RECENT NARAYAN DHARMA TALK
Click here to listen to Narayan’s Dharma Talk from October 22, an introduction to the Way of Council.
DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE
Join Narayan Helen Liebenson and the CIMC community for Dharma in Daily Life (online), weekdays from 8:45-9:00 am. A brief sit, Dharma reflections, and a “practice for the day” support you to live each day in a more connected, wise, generous, and loving way. Join here.
Upcoming Programs
Mindfulness of Phenomena: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (Part 1 of 2) (hybrid)
Weekend, Mar 21-22, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Matthew Hepburn
The Teachings of Etty Hillesum (hybrid)
Saturday, March 28, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Relaxing the Grasping, Freeing Our Hearts (hybrid)
Weekend, April 4-5, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Narayan Helen Liebenson
The World is Here to Set Us Free (online)
Mondays, Apr 6 – May 18, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (ET)
Practice Group with Matthew Daniell
Lessons from Hospice (in-person)
Saturday, April 11, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (ET)
Workshop with Nancy Barcelo, Sam Kourkoulakos
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