Events
Teaching at the Insight Meditation Center
Monday Night Dharma
Weekly on Mondays 7:15-8:30pm PT
In-person and streamed on YouTube
Becoming Available: A Day of Mindfulness, Receptivity, and Ease
In meditation, freedom does not come from forcing experience to be different, but from learning to meet what is here with openness and care. This silent daylong retreat will include alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, with a few short Dharma talks and very brief mindfulness instructions. Practice discussions with the teacher will also be offered. Please bring a lunch. No registration required.
Sept 19 9:30am-3:30pm PT
In-person only at IMC
Saturday mindfulness daylong
Oct 3 9:30am-3:30pm PT
Hosted by Insight Retreat Center; online only
Registration required
Saturday daylong: Presence, Poetry and Practice
At the heart of Dharma practice is the invitation to be present for our lives, not only for what is pleasant or easily understood, but also for what is uncertain, painful, beautiful, or beyond words. Poetry can help us enter this territory gently. In this daylong retreat, we will meditate together and reflect on poems that have opened something in us. Through mindfulness, poetry, silence, and shared inquiry, we will explore how language can deepen awareness, soften the heart, and connect us with people whose lives may be distant from ours in place or time, yet intimately familiar in their humanity. The program is offered freely, with no registration needed. Please bring lunch.
Oct 24, 9:30am-4:30pm PT
with Walt Opie
In-person at IMC only; No registration
Teaching at Sacramento Insight Meditation
Thu Sep 24 7:00-9:00pm PT; In-person and Zoom
Sat Sep 26 Daylong 9:30am-3:30pm PT; In-person and Zoom
Tue Nov 3, 10, 17, 24: 4-week course on the Eightfold Path; 7:00-8:30pm PT; Zoom only
Thu Nov 5 7:00-9:00pm PT; In-person and Zoom
Courses
Exploring the Buddha’s Middle-Length Discourses Sutta study
Offered online asynchronously by the Sati Center
with Gil Fronsdal
Exploring the Riches of the Pali Canon
Tue Sep 29-Nov 24; 3:30-5:00pm PT + Small Cohort group
8 weeks, with a week break in the middle
with Kim Allen, David Lorey and Ying Chen
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies; Online only
Registration closes August 10, 2026; 2:00 PM PT
The Eightfold Path: A Practical Path to Freedom
The Noble Eightfold Path invites us to discover for ourselves what helps us live with less suffering and more freedom. In this four-week course, we’ll explore the path not simply as a Buddhist teaching to learn and follow, but as a path to engage with. Please join us as we’ll explore how the path can inform the ways we understand our experience, relate to others, and cultivate our minds.
Tuesday evenings: Nov 3, 10, 17, 24, 2026; 7:00-8:30pm Pacific
Offered through Sacramento Insight Meditation; Online only
Retreats
5-Night Meditation retreat, Oct
Fri-Wed, Oct 9-14
with Lienchi Tran, in the style of Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center; Castle Rock, WA
4-Night Meditation Retreat, Oct
Sun-Thu, Oct 25-29
with Kim Allen, Ying Chen and David Lorey
Hidden Villa, Los Altos, CA
4-Day Non-residential Retreat, Jan
Thu-Mon, Jan 14-18, 2027
with Kim Allen, Ying Chen and David Lorey
Los Altos Community Center, Los Altos, CA
Details coming soon
6-Night Awareness and Wisdom retreat, April 2027
April 16-22, 2027
with Andrea Fella, in the style of Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center, Castle Rock, WA
2-Week Online Insight Retreat, April 2027
for experienced practitioners
April 25 - May 9, 2027
A “hybrid” retreat with Gil Fronsdal, who will be in-person at IRC doing the primary teaching, while I will be offering practice discussions online via Zoom
Insight Retreat Center