Seattle Insight Meditation

12/29/2025

Join us tomorrow for Seattle Insight’s monthly social hour!
Doors open at 6pm; bring your own food, relax, and connect with your sangha.
Our Monday night sit and dharma talk will begin as usual at 7.

12/07/2025

Join our Climate Action Group this Tuesday online from 7:00pm–8:30. This monthly group meets on the second Tuesdays to explore the climate crisis through a dharma lens.

If you are interested in attending this group and staying updated through their bulletin board, please email Ken Yasuhara. Link here: https://seattleinsight.org/event/climate-action-group-online-2024-01-09/2025-12-09/

11/30/2025

Humility, dignity, and integrity are three attitudes of the mind-heart that allow us to transform our daily lives into our monastery for practice. When we cultivate humility, dignity, and integrity, they empower us to counter balance the ego’s clinging and grasping.

This online retreat will consist of sitting and walking meditation, short dharma talks, and time for questions and responses. Register for the Friday event, and one or two days of the weekend retreat at seattleinsight.org

11/24/2025

Join us for Seattle Insight’s second-ever Social Hour!
Every last Monday of the month, we’ll gather from 6:00–6:45pm before the Monday sit and Dharma talk. Bring your own food and drink, connect with others, and enjoy time with our special sangha.

11/13/2025

In this daylong, through meditations, talks, interviews and discussions, we will fully explore Anatta. Self and Not-Self. What does it really mean? I’m me! Right? You are you! Right? Or are we? Why is this teaching so important?
Register here: https://seattleinsight.org/event/understanding-self-and-not-self-leads-to-freedom/

10/17/2025

"The opposite of over-efforting is not no effort, it’s wise effort."
This month’s teaching theme is on Wise Effort, one of the elements of the Noble Eightfold Path. Our teacher Keri Peterson shared some wisdom to consider during this month’s Under 40 sit

10/15/2025

Under 40 Vegetarian potluck at Seattle Insight happening tonight! Hope to see you there! RSVP is appreciated but not required.

10/15/2025

Join us for an evening with Sharon Salzberg this Saturday from 3:00pm - 5:00pm!

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness & lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture fifty years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. A co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, Sharon is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindess.

In 2023, Sharon released two new books: Real Life, available in April from Flatiron Books, and Finding Your Way, a small gift book available in October from Workman. Sharon’s popular podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed seven million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.

This is a hybrid event with Sharon joining us virtually. Register at the Seattle Insight website. We hope to see you there!

10/12/2025

Join Seattle Insight’s Climate Action Group for another Meditation Walk in the ancient, magical forest at Seward Park tomorrow, October 12, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

We will meet in the meadow adjacent to Shelter #3 across the road from the trailhead and near the bathrooms:

We’ll have an initial circle, offer a land acknowledgment, followed by suggestions of intentions or ideas for contemplation as we walk for about an hour through the forest.

10/03/2025

Happening tomorrow

The world of 2025 is unsettled—climate disruption, political division, social tension, and personal stress are woven into daily life. Yet the Buddha’s first teaching, the Four Noble Truths, reminds us that suffering (dukkha) is not only inevitable but workable—and that freedom is possible here and now.
This daylong retreat directly supports Seattle Insight’s annual teaching theme by bringing the timeless truths of the Dhamma into our contemporary moment. We will explore how the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are not abstract concepts, but living practices that meet our real struggles with clarity, compassion, and steadiness.

Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT (Hybrid: In-person + Online)
Teachers: Nana Gyesie, with Assistant Teachers and Local Dharma Leaders Sooz Appel, Judith Avinger, Nina Laboy, and Candace Robb

What We’ll Explore Together
How suffering arises in today’s world—personally and collectively—and how we can respond wisely.
How the Eightfold Path provides a practical framework for freedom in our relationships, work, and communities.
What awakening means in contemporary times—and how it can be lived out in ordinary daily life.

Through guided meditation, Dhamma talks, mindful walking, and group reflection, we’ll practice not just understanding suffering, but transforming our relationship to it. This retreat is not about temporary relief. It is about real transformation—embodying the in a way that sustains us in these challenging times.

Register today at Seattle Insight's website. We hope to see you there!

09/20/2025

Tomorrow we remember our dear sangha member Gene Canning. The Remembrance Ceremony is Sat. 9/20 from 3pm - 4:30pm at Seattle Insight and online. Visit the Seattle Insight website for details about joining online.

09/08/2025

The world of 2025 is unsettled—climate disruption, political division, social tension, and personal stress are woven into daily life. Yet the Buddha’s first teaching, the Four Noble Truths, reminds us that suffering (dukkha) is not only inevitable but workable—and that freedom is possible here and now.
This daylong retreat directly supports Seattle Insight’s annual teaching theme by bringing the timeless truths of the Dhamma into our contemporary moment. We will explore how the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are not abstract concepts, but living practices that meet our real struggles with clarity, compassion, and steadiness.

Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT (Hybrid: In-person + Online)
Teachers: Nana Gyesie, with Assistant Teachers and Local Dharma Leaders Sooz Appel, Judith Avinger, Nina Laboy, and Candace Robb

What We’ll Explore Together
How suffering arises in today’s world—personally and collectively—and how we can respond wisely.
How the Eightfold Path provides a practical framework for freedom in our relationships, work, and communities.
What awakening means in contemporary times—and how it can be lived out in ordinary daily life.

Through guided meditation, Dhamma talks, mindful walking, and group reflection, we’ll practice not just understanding suffering, but transforming our relationship to it. This retreat is not about temporary relief. It is about real transformation—embodying the in a way that sustains us in these challenging times.

Register today at Seattle Insight's website. We hope to see you there!