On most Wednesday evenings throughout the year, a CIMC or visiting teacher offers a Dharma talk. Registration is not required; this is a drop-in program. We invite attendees to offer financial support for our visiting teachers through the practice of dana (generosity). All are welcome regardless of ability to pay.
Please see below which dates will be hybrid (in person and online) and which will be online-only. If you arrive early, please preserve the silence until the teacher arrives.
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Upcoming talk:
- Narayan Helen Liebenson, “Reflections on Pilgrimage“, Wednesday, February 26, 6:30 – 8:45 PM (ET). This program will be hybrid (you can attend in person or online).
Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center where she has been teaching since it opened its doors in 1985. She is an Emeritus Guiding Teacher at IMS (the Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, Massachusetts, after serving as a guiding teacher there for twenty years. Narayan is the author of a small book entitled Life as Meditation, and The Magnanimous Heart; Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation. Her training includes over 45 years in the Theravada tradition as well as ten years in the Chan tradition with the late Master Sheng-yen. She finds it a joy and a privilege to share the Buddha’s teachings with all who are interested.
- Click here to join online via Zoom (download here) and enter the passcode: cimc. Alternatively, you can dial +1 (646) 876-9923 and enter the Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464.
Schedule:
- 6:30 – 7:15: Evening Sit
- 7:15 – 7:30: Mindful Break
- 7:30 – 8:45: Dharma Talk
You are welcome to attend just the sit, just the talk, or both. Please note that the doors to the meditation hall will be closed at 6:40 for the Evening Sit and at 7:40 for the Dharma talk.
Upcoming Wednesday Evening Dharma programs are listed below.
| Date | Program |
| 2/19/2025 | Jessica Morey — Freedom Through Connection: Dharma Perspectives on Attachment Theory (hybrid) |
| 2/26/2025 | Narayan Helen Liebenson — Reflections on Pilgrimage (hybrid) |
| 3/5/2025 | Rebecca Bradshaw — Book talk: Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart (hybrid) |
| 3/12/2025 | Andrew Olendzki — Classical Buddhist Practice (hybrid) |
| 3/19/2025 | Matthew Daniell (hybrid) |
| 3/26/2025 | Will Kabat-Zinn (online) |
| 4/2/2025 | Chris Crotty (hybrid) |
| 4/9/2025 | Zeenat Potia (hybrid) |
| 4/16/2025 | Narayan Helen Liebenson (online) |
| 4/23/2025 | Susan Pollak (hybrid) |
| 4/30/2025 | TBD |
| 5/7/2025 | Anu Gupta (online) |
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