Meditation Springfield IL

12/01/2025

Resources from Champaign, IL!

Including:
🧘🏽 - Intro to meditation (~24pg booklet)
⏺️ - Audio recordings!
⏳ - "Insight Timer" App recommendation
📖 - Brief Book List
🔗 - Study/article Links
🏡 - Selected retreat centers

Introduction to Insight Meditation (1988) is a short guide written by Ajahn Sucitto, a Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in the Thai Forest Tradition. Born in England, Ajahn Sucitto served as the abbot of Cittaviveka, Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, from 1992 to 2014. This booklet provides a clear and...

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Full-time Center manager positions are now open at the Illinois Vipassana Center (Dhamma Pakasa).

The general role of a center manager is to organize the maintenance of the center and support servers throughout their activities at the center. This can take the form of administrative support or hands-on instruction. In this varied and constantly changing role, it is always the goal of managers to apply the principles of our Vipassana practice and be a role model for newer servers in approaching problems with ingenuity and energy and above all, equanimity. It is important that candidates for center manager be well established in their practice and have experience in serving courses.

The Trust would like potential center managers to make a commitment of six months to a year. In some cases, center managers may be allowed to extend their service for up to one more additional year. Duties will involve close coordination with the Trust Committees about the day-to-day operation of the center and needed improvements. It will be helpful if prospective center managers have their own transportation for off-duty periods. Serious meditators have found that service given in the center manager role quickly deepens their practice, preparing them for longer courses, and provides a thorough understanding of how centers and trusts operate.

Long-term servers are also needed for in-course and between-course service. Long-term servers can stay and serve at the Center continuously for a few weeks to a few months, or they may come for shorter periods on a recurring basis. This can be ideal for students who live closer to the Center and can commute.

If you are interested in applying or learning more, please send an email to manager@pakasa.dhamma.org. Please also spread the word to other old students you know who may be interested in this opportunity.

We welcome inquiries from anyone who has completed at least one 10-Day course in the tradition as taught by S. N. Goenka. If you are interested in applying or learning more, please send an email to manager@pakasa.dhamma.org.

09/28/2025

"Waking Up" Meditation App, 3 month free trial (to celebrate their 7th anniversary) -- typically only one free month is shareable!
Promo code: WU7A-9F6444225B

09/13/2025