Insight meditation, also known as mindfulness or vipassana meditation, comes from the early Buddhist tradition. Through learning to bring a steady and spacious awareness to direct experience, moment by moment, insight meditation aims to free the mind from the distortions of self-centeredness, negativity, and confusion. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure and pain, fear and joy, and all aspects of life, with increasing balance, compassion, and freedom.
The six-week Introduction to Meditation class offers participants teachings about what insight meditation is, how it works, and how to do it. The focus is on bringing insight and loving-kindness practices into daily life, both on and off the meditation cushion. Many people take the class more than once, to refresh and strengthen their existing practice.
The class includes:
This class meets in hybrid format (both in person and online simultaneously).
Registration is required and closes after the second class.
Take an Introduction to Meditation class at your own pace at home with recordings from past classes.
Introduction to Meditation Class with Tim Geil (Jan–Feb 2021) – Link
Introduction to Meditation Class with Tuere Sala (Sep–Nov 2020) – Link
Introduction to Insight Meditation with Rodney Smith (2008) – Link
