This Week's EventsTuesday Jun 3 at 7:00 pm. Meditation: Hybrid meditation. Tuesday Jun 3 at 7:30 pm. Dharma Talk: Amma Thanasanti. Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Sunday Jun 8 at 9:30 am. Sangha Mamas: . Tuesday Jun 10 at 6:00 pm. Soup With Sangha: Sangha Meal. Tuesday Jun 10 at 7:00 pm. Meditation: Hybrid meditation. ClassesRetreats |
Welcome to Bellingham InsightBellingham Insight Meditation Society (BIMS) supports meditation and practice in the Buddhist Theravada tradition. We do not have a single guiding teacher. Rather, we are a sangha-led community. We bring in regional and national teachers, including monastics, for residential and non-residential retreats. Our weekly programs are facilitated by senior members in coordination with our Board and Program Committee. Bellingham Insight Meditation Society welcomes visitors. To receive announcements and links to our Zoom meetings, join our list-serve by emailing bellinghaminsight+subscribe@googlegroups.com or by e-mailing the listserv moderator. Insight meditation is a simple and direct practice, the moment-to-moment investigation of the mind/body process through calm and focused awareness. Learning to observe experience from a place of stillness enables one to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure, pain, fear, joy and all aspects of life with increasing equanimity and balance. As insight deepens, wisdom and compassion arise. This practice is sometimes called "vipassana", which is a Pali word for insight. We meet at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (BUF): 1207 Ellsworth Street (at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street a few blocks north of downtown). The main entrance faces Ellsworth Street. You can become a member of the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society by completing the Membership form found on the Supporting BIMS page. NewsTuesday June 1st - Meditation and TraumaTonight"s meditation will continue in the hybrid format: in-person at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth Street, at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street) and also via Zoom.
Our greeters will be at the main entrance of BUF from 6:30 until 6:55pm to let you into the building.
Following a period of silent meditation, Marc Geisler will guide a 5 remembrances practice as updated by Thich Naht Hahn in the Plum Village Chanting Book, We will pause after the 4th remembrance to remember someone dear from whom we have been separated, as Ajahn Chah taught, "to keep their spirit alive and find new meaning in their life," taking care to recall the whole person.
6:30 Hall opens 6:45 Zoom room opens 7:00 Silent Meditation 7:45 Introductions, Announcements, Short Break 7:55 Mindful Self Compassion Practice 8:30 Closing
We hope to practice with you Tuesday evening. 6/1/25
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