Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre BMIMC is a retreat centre for the practice of Insight Meditation in the tradition of Burmese meditati All courses are residential and fully catered.

We provide facilities for the teaching and practice of insight meditation in the tradition of the late Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. Courses are taught by experienced lay and monastic teachers from around the world and range in length from short weekend courses for beginners to longer retreats of up to 4 weeks.

Last day of our Easter retreat. Thank You to our lunch cooks, Robyn head cook and Sean kitchen assistant. Happy Yogis en...
06/04/2026

Last day of our Easter retreat. Thank You to our lunch cooks, Robyn head cook and Sean kitchen assistant. Happy Yogis enjoying their lunch.

Easter retreat with Tara Frances. 19 Yogis attended the retreat cultivating Sīla, Samādhi, and Paññā. Two of the Yogis a...
06/04/2026

Easter retreat with Tara Frances. 19 Yogis attended the retreat cultivating Sīla, Samādhi, and Paññā.
Two of the Yogis are from Singapore and a couple from interstate.

When you visit BMiMC you will notice a stupa near the teachers room. This stupa was built by the Burmese community supp...
01/04/2026

When you visit BMiMC you will notice a stupa near the teachers room. This stupa was built by the Burmese community supporters and is maintained by local Yogis Roger and Khin Khin. A stupa is a sacred monument designed to house relics of the Buddha, his disciples, or revered teachers, serving as a focal point for meditation and pilgrimage. Originating as ancient Indian burial mounds, they symbolize the enlightened mind and the Buddha’s presence, often featuring a dome, square base, and a spire.

Creating a “Yogi-free zone” or……establishing the “Teacher’s Garden”.
01/04/2026

Creating a “Yogi-free zone” or……establishing the “Teacher’s Garden”.

When you visit our centre you may notice some photos hanging in the staff room of prominent monastic teachers. These mo...
26/03/2026

When you visit our centre you may notice some photos hanging in the staff room of prominent monastic teachers. These monks were invited by BMIMC to teach retreats in the 1980’s.

One of these monks was the famous Vipassana teacher Sayadaw U Pandita who was born in Burma in 1921. Losing his mother at age four and his father at ten, he began his primary education in the traditional way, at a monastery, and ordained as a novice monk when he was twelve. At eighteen, he went to study with the great Sayadaw U Kelasa of the Kyauk Tan Mahabodhi Monastery near Bago and ordained as a bhikkhu there at twenty. U Pandita would go on to become a distinguished scholar of the Pali texts in his own right, teaching textual studies in Rangoon, earning the preeminent title of Abhivamsa, and eventually participating, when he was thirty-three, as both Reciter and Corrector of Pali in the Sixth Sangha Council of 1956.

Some of our volunteers travel a long way to be involved in our centre. Hugh and Jenene (left) current retreat managers c...
19/03/2026

Some of our volunteers travel a long way to be involved in our centre. Hugh and Jenene (left) current retreat managers come from Canberra. Today’s cook Kaye comes from the South Coast and Lochkey assisting in the kitchen is from Sydney.

Setting up the meditation hall for Lesley’s retreat. Note the “almost” completed shrine in the background.
19/03/2026

Setting up the meditation hall for Lesley’s retreat. Note the “almost” completed shrine in the background.

Our latest project at BMIMC has been building a shrine in the meditation hall. Thank you to Yogis and volunteers for you...
18/03/2026

Our latest project at BMIMC has been building a shrine in the meditation hall. Thank you to Yogis and volunteers for your patience with the temporary disruption during the recent retreats and our regular Wednesday evening group. 🪷

Springtime Dhamma Service Weekend -
05/09/2025

Springtime Dhamma Service Weekend -

New Year Dhamma Service Weekend -
31/08/2025

New Year Dhamma Service Weekend -

Wednesday Night Talks with Patrick Kearney - https://mailchi.mp/f45ede4f345f/a-genealogy-of-insight-dhamma-talk-by-patri...
19/01/2025

Wednesday Night Talks with Patrick Kearney - https://mailchi.mp/f45ede4f345f/a-genealogy-of-insight-dhamma-talk-by-patrick-kearney-10602630
22 January - 12 February 2025

In 1960 Mahasi Sayadaw gave a long talk to practitioners who had attained stream entry, the first stage of awakening as understood by the Theravāda, with the overarching theme of the “mirror of dhamma” – how practitioners can assess their understanding for themselves. Patrick will explore this system over four Wednesday nights, with a particular focus on how it might apply to us in contemporary Australia.

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25 Rutland Road
Medlow Bath, NSW
2780

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+61247881024

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