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CIMC : Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, 331 Broadway, Cambridge, MA (2025)

11/05/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dhamma talk with Bhante Buddharakkhita entitled "Meeting our chaotic life with Mindfulness, Equanimity and Wisdom":

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

"Life is sometimes like a roller coaster. You can choose to scream at the ups and downs or apply a balanced mind and enjoy the ride. How do we stay calm and balanced in the face of happiness and pain?"

Venerable Bhante Buddharakkita was born in Uganda, Africa. He first encountered Buddhism in 1990 while studying and living in India. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk by the late Most Venerable U Silananda in 2002 at the Tathagata Meditation Center in San Jose, California. He then spent eight years under the guidance of Bhante Henepola Gunaratana at the Bhavana Society, West Virginia. He is the founder and Abbot of the Uganda Buddhist Center in Uganda.

Besides spending time at the Uganda Buddhist Center, he is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and he holds an Honorary Doctorate in Buddhist Studies from Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (MCU), Thailand. He is long-time member of Global Buddhist Relief’s advisory council in New Jersey.

He has been teaching mindfulness meditation in Africa, the U.S., and worldwide since 2005, and he is a much-loved teacher in many countries. His book, Planting Dhamma Seeds: The Emergence of Buddhism in Africa, tells the story of his religious and spiritual work in the continent of his birth.

11/05/2025

This year-long program offers a precious opportunity to join a committed and dedicated community (sangha) for an extended period of time. Join Madeline Klyne online and others to explore the Buddha’s foundational teachings of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity— known as the Brahmavihārās, We will begin and end with daylong workshops. In between, we will meet on the second Friday evening of each month, except August.
See more and register at the link in our bio. We hope you join us!

10/22/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Narayan Helen Liebenson:

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

Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center where she has been teaching since it opened its doors in 1985. She is an Emeritus Guiding Teacher at IMS (the Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, Massachusetts, after serving as a guiding teacher there for twenty years. Narayan is the author of a small book entitled Life as Meditation, and The Magnanimous Heart; Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation.

Her training includes over 45 years in the Theravada tradition as well as ten years in the Chan tradition with the late Master Sheng-yen. She finds it a joy and a privilege to share the Buddha’s teachings with all who are interested.

10/15/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Tim Geil entitled "Compassion and the Four Noble Truths":

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

"The Four Noble Truths offer the fundamental roadmap for our practice. Our daily lives offer countless opportunities to integrate and embody our understanding of the Four Noble Truths. Bringing compassion to the dukkha of our lives helps them transform into wisdom and understanding. In this way, we learn to embody the Four Noble Truths."

Tim Geil began practicing Insight Meditation in 1996 and has taught meditation since 2006 under the guidance of Rodney Smith. In 2016, Tim completed the four-year Residential Retreat Teacher Training through Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, and Insight Retreat Center. The core teachers of this intensive program were Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Carol Wilson, Gil Fronsdal, Guy Armstrong, Andrea Fella, Trudy Goodman, and Phillip Moffitt.

Tim emphasizes three expressions of the Dharma: investigation, non-resistance, and compassion. Our daily lives prove a tailor-made spiritual path for each person when we are willing to investigate areas of constriction and resistance. This reveals our personal suffering created by the illusion of a separate self. A deep sense of non-resistance and compassion brings balance to investigation. Relaxing fully into this moment is the essence of non-resistance. Compassion brings sensitivity and kindness as we meet all aspects of ourselves. This allows the heart’s release into stillness.

A Co-Guiding Teacher of Seattle Insight, Tim offers talks, classes, interviews, and retreats. He also works closely with leadership and volunteers at Seattle Insight as a member of the board of directors. Tim has inhabited many roles: husband, father, wilderness ranger, martial artist, hospice volunteer, massage therapist. His relationship with his wife and daughter are a joyful and fundamental part of his dharma practice.

10/08/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dhamma talk with Winnie Nazarko entitled "Drawing on the Dharma":

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

"In 'real life' we often experience challenging circumstances which arouse hindrances. This talk explores the use of intentional reflection on specific dharma perspectives which may support grounding and wisdom."

Winnie Nazarko is an IMS Core Guiding Teacher. Her orientation to practice is rooted in a background of human service work and the desire to relieve human suffering. After years of work with issues of violence, and hunger, it became apparent that the largest single impediment to collective human progress is the level of development of the average human mind.

In 1998, she was asked to teach the Dharma by Joseph Goldstein. She does so to help people open their full potential, in the interest of their own happiness and well-being and for the benefit of others who their lives affect.

Winnie’s teachings are rooted in the Eight-Fold Path taught by the Buddha, with particular emphasis on aligning motivation with the student’s highest and wisest aspiration. Letting go (renunciation) and self-compassion are taught as essential, foundational attitudes supporting practice. Her emphasis is on “skillful means”, understanding that students come to meditation from many different circumstances and experiences.

10/01/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with David Loy entitled "What does Buddhism teach about the natural world?":

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

David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

His essays and books have been translated into many languages. His articles regularly appear in the pages of Buddhist magazines, including Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as scholarly journals. David’s most recent book is Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis (Wisdom Publications, 2018).

He teaches nationally and internationally on various topics, focusing primarily on the encounter between Buddhism and modernity: what each can learn from the other. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues. He is one of the founding members of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center near Boulder, Colorado.

09/24/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a book talk with Madeline Drexler: "The World Exists to Set Us Free"

This talk will celebrate the release of a new book, "The World Exists to Set Us Free: Straight Up Dharma for Living a Life of Awareness" by CIMC founding teacher, Larry Rosenberg and speaker Madeline Drexler.

Copies of Larry's new book will be available for sale at a discount after the event.

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

Madeline Drexler is an award-winning Boston-based journalist and author who has studied with Larry Rosenberg since 2000. For 10 years she served as editor of Harvard Public Health magazine. Drexler’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Tricycle, Undark, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Saveur, Nieman Reports, and many other publications.

09/17/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Mark Nunberg entitled "Healing and Liberation in Times of Activation and Entanglement":

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

"We live in times when fear, greed and anxiety provoke our hearts & minds daily. Often, we relate to these triggers in ways that only amplify agitation and conflict in and around us. The Buddha’s teachings and practices help us uncover the stabilizing, tenderizing, and liberating force of wisdom and awareness. Wisdom and awareness is the necessary antidote for troubled hearts in troubled times."

Mark Nunberg began his Buddhist meditation practice in 1982. In 1993 he co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis and in 2013 Common Ground Retreat Center in Western Wisconsin. He serves as Common Ground’s Co-Guiding Teacher. Mark has been leading residential Insight Meditation retreats since 2003. Mark continues to be a grateful student of the Buddha’s teachings

09/10/2025

Join us ONLINE ONLY this evening for a talk with Thanissara entitled "Awakening at the Edge of Collapse":

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

"We are living through a profound pivot point. The old myths of our civilization–endless growth, rugged individualism, and “us first” hierarchies are crumbling. In their place, fear, division, and the architecture of fascism are rapidly rising. As the Jungian analyst Edward Edinger warned, when a central myth breaks down, meaning drains away, and primitive forces rush in.

The Buddha also lived in a world burning with greed, hatred, and delusion. He challenged the systems of his time, endured attempts on his life, negotiated peace between warring factions, and even stood before armies bent on destruction. In the Sakka-pañha Sutta, when asked why beings who wish for peace end up in rivalry and violence, he pointed to the root: the mind entangled in papañca, the web of proliferating stories that harden separation.

How then do we understand this immense historic moment? We can take courage from the Buddha. He didn’t always succeed. Even with his wisdom and compassion, he could not prevent the destruction of his own people. Yet he still stood before armies, still spoke truth, and still acted with courage. Even when outcomes are uncertain, we too are called, at this time, to step forward with clarity, compassion, and steadfastness.

Together we will explore how to bring the medicine of the Dharma into this moment of profound challenge, not as escape, but as a path of right action, refuge, and renewal."

Thanissara is Anglo-Irish from London. She is a Dharma teacher, author, poet, and activist. She trained for 12 years as a monastic in the Thai Forest School of Ajahn Chah and has taught retreats internationally for 35 years. With her partner, Kittisaro, she co-founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat Center in South Africa and Sacred Mountain Sangha. Currently, she lives in California.

08/12/2025

In this profound collection, beloved meditation teacher Larry Rosenberg offers wisdom that feels like a conversation with a trusted friend. Drawing from over fifty years of Buddhist practice, Rosenberg illuminates how dharma naturally weaves through our everyday challenges and joys. With his trademark humor and directness, he strips away pretense to reveal Buddhism’s practical heart—not as an exotic philosophy but as a clear path to living with authenticity in our complex, troubled world. A treasure for both beginners and seasoned practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of meditation’s transformative potential.” – devon hase

We’re looking forward to reading Larry’s newest book, which will be released on August 26 by Shambala Publications. Swipe to see what other renowned dharma teachers have said about the book and join us in experiencing Larry’s written wisdom. What’s on your reading list this summer?

Get 30% off a paperback copy of The World Exists to Set Us Free on Shambhala.com using code SETUSFREE30. Code valid on shambhala.com through September 26, 2025. Enter code in shopping cart. Cannot be combined with other offers.

What’s on your reading list this summer?

07/30/2025

Join us IN PERSON this evening for a Dhamma talk with Tuere Sala entitled "The Importance of Maintaining Inner Stability in External Uncertainty":

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

"When external conditions begin to fluctuate and spin at a fast pace, we need to know how to ground and stabilize ourselves internally. This is what the four foundations of mindfulness are pointing towards. Knowing how to establish mindfulness is an empowerment. It creates agency in oneself and allows us to move through challenging situations with strength and integrity."

Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at the Seattle Insight Meditation Society and a retired prosecuting attorney. She has over 25 years of Buddhist meditation experience and is a graduate of IMS’s 2017-2021 Teacher Training Program. Tuere believes that urban meditation is the foundation for today’s practitioner’s path to liberation. She is inspired by bringing the Dharma to nontraditional places and is a strong advocate for practitioners living with high stress, past trauma and difficulties sitting still. Her teachings reflect an approach to Dharma that is both easy to follow and understand – making it accessible to everyone.

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/

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