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.
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What We Offer
Announcements
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). November 2, 9, 23, and December 7 and 14. We hope to see you then.
Get Out the Vote
A group of Dharma teachers is hosting political letter-writing sessions over Zoom, offered as socially engaged Dharma practice. Join their mailing list to learn more about future opportunities to get involved.
Also, click here learn more about Faith in America, an interfaith initiative supporting free, fair, and safe elections.
Click here to read an article on voting written by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
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
Falling in Love with the World (hybrid)
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Retreat with Chas DiCapua
Gladdening the Heart: The Practice of Joy (hybrid)
Week, November 14 – November 22 (ET)
Sandwich Retreat with Narayan Helen Liebenson and Matthew Hepburn
Finding Balance in Meditation (online)
Mondays, Nov 23 – Dec 14, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM (ET)
Practice Group with Matthew Hepburn
Gratitude Gathering (online)
Thursday, November 26, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (ET)
Drop-In Event with Madeline Klyne
Inner Light at the Dark of the Year (hybrid)
Saturday, December 19, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Half-Day Retreat 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.
• 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
• 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