The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is a non-profit organization for study of Buddhism located in Barre, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1975 by Sharon...
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Joseph Goldstein (writer) (section Meditation practice)
one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, a contemporary...
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for Buddhist meditation." In 1975 the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) was founded in Barre, Massachusetts, by a group of Western meditation teachers trained...
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Burma. He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon...
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author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack...
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Dipa Ma (section Meditation)
in the United States. In the early 1980s Dipa Ma taught at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She died aged 78, in 1989 in Kolkata...
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Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of vipassanā (insight) meditation in the West and throughout...
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Hamilton,] a volunteer at Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, began taping the dharma talks and meditation instructions offered there...
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teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. She is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts...
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Vipassana movement (section Meditation techniques)
the Insight Meditation Movement and American Vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" (sukha-Vipassana)...
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home to Stetson School. Barre Historical Society & Museum Barre Players Theater Insight Meditation Society Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Russell's...
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(Varanasi) Insight Meditation Society, a Buddhist organization in Barre, Massachusetts Institute of Mathematical Statistics International Magicians Society International...
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addition to teaching at the Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, he is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts...
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Retreat Center General Information". Insight Meditation Society's Official Website. Insight Meditation Society. Archived from the original on 22 February...
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Nanachat Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts, USA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, USA...
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Mindfulness (redirect from Mindfulness meditation)
studied at the Insight Meditation Society and eventually taught there. One of MBSR's techniques—the "body scan"—was derived from a meditation practice ("sweeping")...
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at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre Massachusetts. Over one hundred participants attended, including many noted North American meditation teachers...
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was also a teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She sometimes taught at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California...
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spring of 1984 at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts in the United States. Many of the senior Western meditation teachers in the Mahāsi...
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and former Theravadin monk, stated that the Insight Meditation Society wanted to present Buddhist meditation "without the complications of rituals, robes...
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other Buddhist teachers such as Seungsahn. He also studied at the Insight Meditation Society with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and eventually taught...
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samatha (tranquility) and vipassanā (insight); and are also said to lead to abhijñā (supramundane powers). These meditation techniques are preceded by and combined...
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founded the Insight Meditation Society, Sylvia Boorstein who teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, all of whom learned vipassana meditation primarily...
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Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving...
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(the Israel Insight Society) which is a teaching organisation for the practice of attention in everyday life through insight meditation — Vipassana. Tovana...
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the now influential Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. In 1984, Kornfield helped found the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the major center...
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Maitrī (redirect from Meditation on friendliness)
Bhikkhu. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society. II.IX.98. "Dhamma Lists". Insight Meditation Center. Redwood City, Calif. Wiltshire, Martin G...
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centres, including the well-known Theravada Buddhist centre, Insight Meditation Society. Keating tells of meeting many young people, some who stumbled...
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developed an interest in Buddhism, involving himself with the Insight Meditation Society and regularly participating in annual weeklong silent retreats...
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The Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique is that associated with Transcendental Meditation, developed by the Indian spiritual figure Maharishi Mahesh...
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