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CIMC : Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge, MA (2025)

07/23/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Sumi Loundon Kim entitled "How to Develop a Meditation Habit":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

Zoom information to join:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University, where she has been since 2018, having previously served in the same role at Duke University for eight years. She is the founder of and was the primary teacher for the Mindful Families of Durham, NC. She has a master’s in Buddhist studies and Sanskrit from Harvard Divinity School, and was the associate director for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts. Originally brought up in a Soto Zen community in the ‘70s, Sumi has been a student of the Theravada tradition since her teens. She is the author of several books: Blue Jean Buddha; The Buddha’s Apprentices; Sitting Together; and Goodnight Love: A Bedtime Meditation Story. She lives in southern Connecticut with her husband, two teens, and dog Bodhi.

This talk will be a bit more interactive, and some documents will be used during the evening. You can preview the documents, which are linked to on this page: https://cambridgeinsight.org/programs/dharma-talk-hybrid-5/

07/19/2025

Join us in celebrating International Day of Self Compassion. Today is a reminder to pause, reflect on our self-treatment and practice holding ourselves with more care so that we can do so on all days.

07/16/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Walt Opie entitled "Insights Into Perception and Equanimity":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

Zoom information to join:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Walt Opie is a dharma teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He is a core faculty member with Sacramento Insight Meditation (SIM). He co-leads the monthly Insight Recovery Sangha through IMS Online with Dalila Bothwell. In addition, Walt currently serves as Board President for the Buddhist Recovery Network. He gives talks and teaches workshops and retreats throughout the U.S.

07/09/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with bruni dávila, entitled "Nourishing a Courageous and Steady Heart":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

Zoom information to join:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

bruni dávila has practiced Insight and Zen meditation since 1995. She/they is a graduate from the IMS Teacher Training Program, and has been guided and supported by various wonderful teachers and sanghas, and her ancestors of Puerto Rican heritage. bruni’s practice is grounded in the teachings of Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayadaw U Tejaniya.

07/02/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dharma talk with Chas DiCapua:

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

You can also join online through Zoom:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Chas DiCapua has been practicing mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, primarily in the Theravada school, for over 30 years. In 2003 he was invited to be the Resident Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society where he continues to serve in that role. He is interested in how the basic material of our everyday lives, including relationships, can be used as a vehicle for awakening. A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock teacher training, Chas teaches retreats at IMS and at various centers and sanghas throughout the country.

06/25/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dharma talk with Chris Crotty, entitled "Mindfulness: From Disconnection to Connection":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

You can also join online through Zoom:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Chris Crotty is a Buddhist teacher, chaplain, and pastoral counselor. Practicing meditation since 1998, he has taken retreat with Burmese monastics Sayadaw U Indaka and Sayadaw U Tejaniya, scholar-practitioner Bhikkhu Analayo, western monastics of the Zen and Thai Forest tradition, and senior western Vipassana teachers. Chris was authorized to teach Buddhadharma in 2015 by senior teachers in the western Insight tradition, and in 2016 was encouraged to teach vipassana and metta by Sayadaw U Indaka. Chris is co-spiritual director and guiding teacher at The Center for Mindfulness and Insight Meditation in Wenham MA, and is an active member of the Center for Spiritual Care & Pastoral Formation.

06/18/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Gullu Singh, entitled "When the Buddha was Afraid":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

Zoom information to join:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a corporate real estate attorney who regularly teaches both secular and Buddhist classes and groups at InsightLA, has taught mindfulness at the University of Southern California and has been a guest lecturer on mindfulness at UCLA Law School. Gullu completed InsightLA’s one-year Mindfulness Facilitator Training Group, Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner Program, Spirit Rock’s 2016-2020 Teacher Training program, and is authorized to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction by the Center for Mindfulness at U Mass Medical School. Gullu is deeply inspired to share meditation as an antidote to stress, a way to cope more effectively with the challenges of work and life and to inject more sanity, compassion and wisdom into this world.

06/11/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dharma talk with Jessica Morey, entitled "Trusting Reality: Equanimity Amid the Worldly Winds":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

You can also join online through Zoom:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Jessica Morey is a meditation teacher and coach who has been practicing meditation for almost three decades. She studied engineering and worked in clean energy finance before founding Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, a nonprofit organization bringing in-depth mindfulness and compassion training to youth. Jessica brings a sense of playfulness and care to her teaching and is focused on how we can bring our meditation practice off the cushion and into our relationships and our work. Contemplative practice has been central to her life and work–whether focused on clean energy and climate policy, or growing an international youth mindfulness organization.

06/09/2025

Join Devin Berry () and Tara Mulay on June 29 at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center or online for a day of exploring the explore the heart of the Buddha’s teachings and cultivate the Pāramīs—ten cherished qualities of the heart-mind that guide us towards awakening. Together, we’ll immerse ourselves in noble silence, grounding our practice in mindfulness meditation. Our day will flow with periods of sitting and walking meditation, dharma teachings, and time for your questions. Everyone is welcome. See the link in our bio for more information and to register. We hope to see you there!

06/04/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Ayya Virañani, entitled "Finding Balance in Reality":

6:30 – 7:15 PM ET: meditation
7:30 – 8:45 PM ET: Dharma talk + Q&A

Zoom information to join:
Link: https://cambridgeinsight-org.zoom.us/j/96070852464
Meeting ID: 960 7085 2464
Passcode: cimc

Ayya Virañani ordained with Sayadaw U Pandita in 2005, after many years of practice as a lay person. For the last decade, she has been offering metta and vipassana retreats at Chanmyay Myaing Monastery in Burma, as well as internationally. She co-founded Metta In Action in 2008, which has offered ongoing support for nuns, education, and communities.

06/03/2025

We welcome you to join Rev. Shinmu Tamori Gibson ()

on Saturday July 19 from 1:00 – 5:00 PM ET. This half-day retreat is an invitation to tend to our individual heart-body-minds today and to discover the innate eco-dharma wisdom and medicine that is available for each of us in presence and community.

There are no prerequisites for the program. This program is appropriate for both beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Everyone is warmly welcome. Financial assistance and sliding scale pricing is available to any who need it. Register at the link in our bio.

05/29/2025

Join Zac Ispa-Landa for a weekly gathering that will support and deepen your Dharma practice in a time of global turmoil and destabilization, bringing Buddhist wisdom to the intertwined socioecological crises touching all our lives. Staring Sunday June 29 – August 3 from 4:30 – 6:00 PM. Register using the link in our bio. This practice group will be supportive for both beginning and more experienced meditators. All are warmly welcome, full and partial scholarships are available!

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