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:
- Susan Pollak: “Contemplation and Action”, Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 – 8:45 PM (ET). This program will be in person and accessible online.
Dr. Susan Pollak has been meditating since elementary school, studying Sufism, Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, and participating in long retreats since high school. She did graduate work in Comparative Religion and Clinical Psychology at Harvard, and has written and contributed to many books, including “Sitting Together”, “Self Compassion for Parents” and the new (2025) “Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion”. She also writes for Psychology Today and Ten Percent Happier. Susan was President of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy from 2010 to 2020 and is a co-founder of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard Medical School. She loves being a substitute teacher for Daily Dharma in Life.
- 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 |
| 4/9/2025 | Zeenat Potia — Tending to our Earth Body (hybrid) |
| 4/16/2025 | Narayan Helen Liebenson — Contemplation and Action (online) |
| 4/23/2025 | Susan Pollak — Is Parenting Hazardous to Your Health? The Importance of Mindfulness and Compassion (hybrid) |
| 4/30/2025 | Rev. Shinmu Tamori Gibson — May We Be Together; Simply (^_^) (online) |
| 5/7/2025 | Anu Gupta (online) |
| 5/14/2025 | Jan Willis (online) |
| 5/21/2025 | Éowyn Ahlstrom (hybrid) |
| 5/28/2025 | Andrea Castillo (hybrid) |
| 6/4/2025 | Ayya Virañani (online) |
Click here for 2025’s program recordings.
Click here for 2024’s program recordings.
Click here for 2023’s program recordings.
Click here for 2022’s program recordings.
Click here for 2021’s program recordings.
Click here for 2020’s program recordings.
Click here for 2019’s program recordings.
Click here for 2018’s program recordings.
For older recordings, please visit our page on Dharma Seed.