Just letting you know that the Insight Meditation SOciety in Barre, Massachusetts, has just announced its 2020 retreat schedule and registration is now open. Based on previous years, most retreats tend to get fully booked within a few days, so if you're interested in practising at IMS, best to register as soon as you can …
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Resisting the tyranny of productivity Over the last few months, I've been having conversations with students - and with myself! - about what feels to be the increasingly relentless busyness of our lives. People often say to me that they don't have time to meditate every day, and they certainly don't have time to go …
Before and after A couple of years ago, I wrote a post titled "Retreat and pre-retreat practice", which explored ways to navigate some of the anxiety and other challenges that often come up before we go on retreat. This month, I'm writing about another aspect of retreat practice that doesn't always get a lot of …
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Sydney Insight Meditators 2018 New Year's retreat Making positive changes The New Year is traditionally a time to try to make positive changes for the year ahead. And yet most of us have had the experience of starting out with a rush of good intentions, only to find ourselves collapsing back into old habits very …
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