Insight (vipassana)
Teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson explains how beginner and seasoned meditators can benefit from cultivating greater tranquility and insight in their practice.
Mindfulness in the Office
Andrew Olendzki explains how a challenging—even overwhelming—job can be an ideal practice ground for insight meditation.
What’s Left? A Practice for Understanding Impermanence
This exercise illuminates the insubstantial nature of body and mind
TeachingsMagazine | Teachings, What's in a Word?
What’s in a Word? Vipassana
Our expert discusses its meaning and practice.
IdeasMagazine | Books, Reviews
Emissary of Insight
A new book depicts the life of the 20th-century global meditation pioneer S. N. Goenka, but does it tell the whole story?
Good Question! The Art of Meditative Inquiry
The Buddha encouraged us to investigate our experiences, but some ways of questioning mire us in confusion while others are liberating. Dharma and Insight Meditation teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson helps us distinguish skillful from unskillful types…
Meet a Sangha: Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville
Meet the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville, Virginia
Sayadaw U Pandita Has Died
The Vipassana master gained many Western followers after leading a retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in 1984.
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