Im in San Francisco at the Wisdom 2.0 conference asking how to bring wisdom and compassion to our use of technology. There are many competing views on this. It is like the ancient story about six people who are blind touching different parts of an e... Read more

Retreats are powerful. They give you a chance to reset, refresh, and de-clutter your mind. They offer time to resolve unfinished things in your heart, to learn to see yourself and the world with eyes of compassion and forgiveness. Retreats help t... Read more

Spring birds and flowers have arrived. Time to sign up for our InsightLAs Spring Insight Meditation retreat. If youve never sat a retreat before, this is the one for you. We have a smaller group with more teacher support and presence, in a luxuriou... Read more

Even after decades of teaching about the dead-end of hatred, I confess: I hate moving. Even when Im moving to a more spacious and suitable situation, there is a hazy aura of loss, a premature nostalgia for the place Im choosing to leave. Our Los ... Read more

AN EXCERPT FROM SPRING WASHAMS NEW BOOK, A FIERCE HEART: In Buddhist tradition, humanity is sometimes described as being lost in a vast ocean. I always imagine all seven billion of us, dog paddling and flailing around desperately, looking for sec... Read more

A conversation with bell hooks & Thich Nhat Hanh: bell hooks: I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. The civil rights movement was such a wonderful movement for social justice because th... Read more

Dear Friends, Ram Dass, speaking from his wheelchair, said: Its easier to go around the world to help cure blindness and build hospitals than to need someone to pick me up and put me to bed. Even when were able-bodied, we know what he means. Its ... Read more

This year is coming to an end. We celebrate having made it through 2017, thanks to our practice of mindfulness, the loving awareness that helps smooth out the lumps and bumps of life. We celebrate a blank slate of fresh possibilities and new ways to... Read more

Dear friends, This year marks InsightLA’s 15th Anniversary and we have much to celebrate. Thanks to your loyal support, InsightLA has taught thousands of people skills that bring compassion and joy to the forefront of life. Over the past year, amidst... Read more

The Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, my first teacher, spoke to us about the importance of having what he called “bone”. We intuitively understood what he meant: the inner strength that comes from having the courage to be fully present with experience ... Read more