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We can joyfully celebrate that the $70,000 goal for IMC’s fundraising drive for Save the Children has been achieved!  Because some donations where sent through IMC, we actually raised just over $100,000! Surpassing our goal is an even greater joy and further nourishes the care-giving attitude in all of us.  Thank you to all who donated!  If Save the Children can provide us with information for how they used our gift, we will report this here. Donations can still be…

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IRC 2025 Winter-Spring Newsletter is available online . You can read past newsletters in both HTML and PDF formats on the Newsletter page of the Insight Retreat Center website.

Registration is now open for the 2024 – 2025 Eightfold Path Program (In-Person and Zoom) Taught by  Tanya Wiser, Liz Powell, Chris Clifford, and others One Sunday a month, beginning Sept 2024, 1:00 to 3:30 pm with a concluding Saturday daylong in June, 2025 **Here is the link for more information and registration**  

    Upcoming In Person Programs at IMC   Tuesday, December 31, 3:00 – 9:00pm New Year’s Eve Celebration with Tanya Wiser In-person only at IMC To mark the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, We will practice sitting and walking meditation; share inspirational reflections (bring a poem or song to share); do a guided brahma vihara meditation, chant together and ring the bell 108 times to bring the celebration to a close — an IMC tradition. Please come…

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Weekly on Sunday: 10:45 – 11:30 am on Zoom Build and maintain community by connecting online with other IMC sangha members to discuss the Sunday dharma talk and share about our Buddhist practices. Please join us on Zoom each Sunday following the dharma talk at approximately 10:45 am for about 45 minutes for breakout rooms and/or large group discussions. Facilitated by Jan Messer and Barry Rothman, IMC sangha members. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84009542053?pwd=V09IOXJhOHZ2TnovMGpiK2s3V243Zz09 Meeting ID: 840 0954 2053 Passcode: Sangha…

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This statement is also available in PDF format We are heartbroken by the horrific surge in relentless, unprovoked harassment and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Since March 2020, the Stop AAPI Hate organization reports nearly 4,000 incidents of anti-Asian hate, of which nearly 44 percent occurred in California—and many more cases go unreported.  The Insight Meditation Center (IMC) and its community open our hearts to the pain of anti-Asian hate, bearing witness to the suffering and…

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