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The Seattle Insight Meditation is a nonprofit organization devoted to offering the Buddha's teachings on insight and awareness to all those who seek them.

04/21/2026

Join us Wednesdays at noon for a collective pause, a chance to return to stillness in the middle of a busy day.

Keri and Shawn offer a short reflection, followed by 30 minutes of sitting meditation and space for questions or sharing.

No registration needed. Suggested donation $5 + dana. All are welcome.

04/15/2026

The teaching theme for 2026 is Transcendental Dependent Arising, which represents the conditional nature of awakening.

Tuere Sala gave an overview about this topic in her blog. Here are a few excerpts:

“Last year, we explored the Four Noble Truths. They represent the understanding of the relationship between dukkha, our clinging, letting go and the path in which all of this takes place. This year we are turning towards exploring the conditional nature of that letting go.”

“It may seem like letting go is something you have to learn how to do but throughout this year you will hopefully you will begin to see that letting go happens on its own. It is conditional and arises out of particular causes. We, as practitioners, learn to create the conditions that set those causes in motion and let the natural aliveness of our practice carry us towards awakening.”

“This year we are going to explore what it takes to get quiet and patient so we can begin to see this natural human capacity we have for awakening. The wisdom and compassion will enable us to recognize and appreciate the 12 links of Transcendental Dependent Arising.”

We hope you join us at Seattle Insight this year as we explore Transcendental Dependent Arising!

Blog: www.tueresala.org

04/12/2026

Happening today: join us for the IMS/Spirit Rock Founders’ Evening Series, a special benefit event for Seattle Insight.

Hear from Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, joining online. Attend either in person or online. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a senior teacher who helped shape the Insight tradition.

Free to register, donations accepted. All are welcome.

04/11/2026

On April 5, Spirit Rock held a celebration to dedicate a new stupa and celebrate Jack Kornfield's 80th birthday. Tuere Sala, one of our Guiding Teachers, is pictured here with Phillip Moffitt on this joyous occasion.

04/02/2026

All practitioners who love and hold trans people in sacred reverence are warmly invited to attend.

It’s about more than just survival. It’s about love, it’s about community, it’s about being radiantly alive and free in our bodies, hearts, and minds.

As trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people – seeing and being seen is political, and it’s also deeply and profoundly spiritual.

Please join Vivian Su, JD Doyle, Tenzin Mingyur Paldron, and sam rise for a creative and contemplative celebration of Trans Day of Visibility, in this spacious online container of expansive dharma practice.

Our time will include dharma reflections, guided Buddhist meditation, song and visual art practice, exploring how visibility becomes a practice of liberation – for ourselves and for each other.

This program lifts up the dharma that is known through trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive experience.

Cost: $40–120, no one turned away for lack of funds. If the sliding scale is not accessible to you, please choose the “other” option and enter a rate that works for you.

Register here: www.bpf.org/events

03/27/2026

Join us for a weekend workshop, Five Angles for Freedom, with Anushka Fernandopulle, offered both in-person and online.

Together, we’ll explore the Buddha’s teaching of the Five Aggregates (form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness), and how understanding them can loosen patterns of suffering and open the way to greater clarity and freedom. Through guided meditation, teaching, and shared inquiry, this workshop is open to both new and experienced practitioners.

The weekend begins with a Friday evening talk (April 17, 7–9 PM): no registration required. The full workshop continues Saturday–Sunday (April 18–19, 9 AM–4:30 PM PT).

02/19/2026

Join us Saturday, February 28 (9:00am–4:30pm PDT) for a Day of Mindfulness with Co-Guiding Teacher Keri Pederson, Assistant Teacher Steve Wilhelm, and members of the graduating Introduction to Meditation class. Together we’ll practice sitting and walking meditation in the vipassana tradition in a hybrid format (in person and online).

Registration is required. Please sign up on our website. Details and Zoom information will be emailed to registrants in advance.

01/26/2026

Join us in person 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.

01/20/2026

Please join us for Rodney’s final retreat at Seattle Insight. This is an online-only weekend retreat.

Drawing from the Heart Sutra and the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, this retreat explores how these two teachings come together as a unified path of practice. The Heart Sutra offers a clear vision of awakened awareness, while the Four Foundations provide a practical method for realizing that insight in daily experience.

The weekend will include dharma talks, guided meditation, inquiry, quiet sitting, and Qigong. Participants are asked to attend all sessions.

Saturday and Sunday
Online only
Registration is required.
Please register on our website.

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

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4001 9th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA
98105

Telephone

+12066595546

Website

http://www.seattleinsight.org/

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