Why Do We Offer Affinity Groups?

Last week’s video brought you up to date on our social justice initiative, Insight in Action. Today we want to share with you another way your donations are impacting our local and global communities - through the affinity groups we offer at InsightLA... Read more

Author: Mark Koberg

A Residential Retreat for those in Recovery

In our Tuesday newsletter, our Executive Director Mark Koberg shared bit about his experience losing a loved one to addiction. (Read below) Thank you for sharing Mark. This past September, in the early morning San Francis... Read more

Author: Martin Vitorino, PhD

Sharing Trans Joy at the First Residential Retreat for the Transgender and Gender Expansive Community

Here is an article that ran in Lion's Roar recently that was written by me, Fresh Lev White and Rene Rivera about the First Residential Retreat for the Transgender and Gender Expansive Community. You can read more below. In September, “Creating Joy In ... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

Listening

He didn’t say much; he didn’t have to. The quality of his listening itself was so warm and loving, everyone would relax in his presence. Like my father, my beloved Uncle Jim was wise and focused; he could see the humor in all of our various li... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

Quenching the Fires

Jack and I just co-taught a meditation retreat at Spirit Rock with no electricity - until the very last evening. Imagine no hot water and no heat; it was 37 degrees when we woke up before dawn in the cold moonless black velvet night. Turning off my ... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

Makeup on Empty Space

Excerpted from Anne Waldman’s poem, “Makeup on Empty Space” I am putting makeup on empty space rouge blushing on empty space I am putting makeup on empty space pasting eyelashes on empty space painting the eyebrows of empty sp... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

Only go straight, don’t-know!

My first teacher Dae Soen Sa Nim taught us to practice mindfulness with simple Zen phrases: “Only go straight, don’t-know!” He encouraged us all to “Keep this don’t-know mind, try, try for 10,000 years, non-stop.” This was the beauty of his dedicati... Read more

Author: Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD

What IS this? Becoming Curious About Experience

Nobody likes being stressed or being in pain. Our natural response is to push the stress or the pain away, either consciously or unconsciously. This can be helpful in the short term but it’s not a long term solution. Mindfulness practice invites u... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

Retreat to the Future

I’m about to enter a meditation retreat at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in rural central Massachusetts with one of my dharma heroes, Bhikkhu Analayo. Since 1975, the Insight Meditation Society, IMS, with its Retreat Center, the Study Center... Read more

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

A Powerful Week

This is a week of spiritual streams converging in the autumnal equinox and the Jewish New Year beginning Sunday eve. Monday was the time in the earth’s annual cycle around the sun when day and night are equal in length, a moment of perfect balance where... Read more