Portland Insight Meditation Center

Alexa Redner: Guest Teacher
🪷 Sunday Morning at PIMC | In Person + Zoom 🪷
📅 Sunday, July 12 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Please join us this Sunday, July 12 as Alexa Redner leads the Sunday program. Alexa will offer a Dharma reflection on Working skillfully with distracting and challenging thoughts: Drawing on a series of three teachings from the Middle Length Discourses of the Pāli Canon, the Buddha describes the nature of thought proliferation, the difference between wholesome and unwholesome thoughts, and how to work skillfully with unwholesome thoughts as they arise in the mind. This talk will explore skillful means for working with sticky, repetitive and obsessive patterns of thinking.

The morning will include guided and silent meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for discussion and community practice. All are welcome, whether new to meditation or experienced practitioners.

Learn more: portlandinsight.org

🪷 Sunday Morning at PIMC | In Person + Zoom
📅 Sunday, July 5 | 10:00 AM

Please join us this Sunday, July 5 for our Peer-led program—an opportunity for Sangha members to support one another in practice, explore Dharma themes together, and cultivate a sense of connection in a relaxed and inclusive setting.

The gathering is facilitated by a Sangha member, and includes a lightly guided or silent meditation period followed by discussion and time for personal reflection or group sharing. No registration is required—everyone is welcome to join in person or online via Zoom.

Whether you're new to practice or have been practicing for years, all are welcome.
Learn more: portlandinsight.org

What would it feel like to meet your life with greater steadiness, compassion, and ease?

This daylong retreat invites us into the classical heart practices of lovingkindness (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), and equanimity (upekkhā), grounded in the Insight Meditation tradition.

Through guided and silent meditation, mindful awareness of the body, and Dharma reflections, we’ll explore how embodied presence can soften reactivity and help us meet the changing conditions of life with clarity and care.

Together, we’ll practice being with impermanence, difficulty, and uncertainty — not by pushing experience away, but by learning to meet it kindly.

This retreat is open to both newer and experienced meditators.

✨ Guided & silent meditation
✨ Embodied mindfulness practice
✨ Dharma reflections
✨ Supportive, welcoming atmosphere

If you’ve been longing for a day to slow down, reconnect, and cultivate a more tender and steady heart, you are warmly invited.

📅 Saturday, May 31 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
📍 Held in person at PIMC and online via Zoom

Registration:

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