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, November 1. Participants are invited to gather in the Asa Gray Garden at 2pm. No registration is necessary.
Stop by for Madeline Mondays this month
Resident Teacher Madeline Klyne welcomes you for her two Monday drop-in programs Teatime Dharma (4 – 5:30 PM) and Sitting & Sangha (6 –7:15 PM). October 26, November 2, and November 9. We hope to see you then.
Sandwich Retreat in November
Join CIMC’s Guiding Teachers, Narayan Helen Liebenson and Matthew Hepburn, for a nonresidential 9-day retreat at CIMC or online, November 14-22. This retreat, Gladdening the Heart: The Practice of Joy, is a return to the “sandwich format”: two full weekends (Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm) and all five evenings in between (6-8pm). Click here to learn more. We hope you can join us.
Upcoming Programs
Fall Clean-Up Day (in-person)
Sunday, October 25, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Community Event
Knowing the Roots of Suffering, Growing the Roots of Goodness (online)
Thursdays, Oct 29 – Dec 17, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Practice Group with Madeline Klyne
From Craving to Clarity: Awakening from Addiction (hybrid)
Sunday, November 1, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Workshop with Chris Willard
A Walk in the Park: Mindfulness and Connecting with the CIMC Community at Mount Auburn Cemetery (in-person)
Sunday, November 1, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Drop-In Event with Madeline Klyne
Falling in Love with the World (hybrid)
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Chas DiCapua
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.
• Morning sit: Weekdays, 7:00 – 7:45 AM
• Dharma in Daily Life: Weekdays, 8:45 – 9:00 AM (Zoom link)
• Evening sit: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 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
• Little Buddhas: one Sunday a month, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
• 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