This Week's EventsTuesday Dec 24 at 7:00 pm. Meditation: Hybrid meditation Zoom ONLY. 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 December 17th, Jill Shepherd - Pleasure and EnjoymentOur Tuesday evening meditation will continue in a hybrid format: in-person at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth Street, at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street) and also via Zoom. If you are not on the list and wish to attend via Zoom, send an email to info@bellinghaminsight.org
Our greeters will be at the main entrance of BUF from 6:30 until 6:55pm to let you into the building.
Dharma teacher Jill Shepherd will join us again via zoom from her home in New Zealand. Jill has led residential and non-residential retreats for us, and has given us excellent teachings many times over the internet. Jill will talk to us about the role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom.
6:30 Hall opens 6:45 Zoom room opens 7:00 Meditation led by Jill 7:35 Introductions and Announcements 7:45 Dharma talk by Jill, followed by discussion 12/13/24
Tuesday December 3rd - Meditation and a Dharma talk with Ayya AnandabodhiOur Tuesday evening meditation will continue in a 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.
Ayya Anandabodhi from Parayana Vihara in Port Townsend will join us via Zoom. She will lead meditation and share a dharma talk.
7:00 Welcome and silent meditation 7:35 Introductions and Announcements and short break 7:40 Dharma Talk with Q & A 8:30 Closing
Ayya will share a dharma talk on Gratefulness: Reflections on gratefulness, appreciation, and enoughness.
We hope to see you this Tuesday evening. 11/29/24
Tuesday, November 19th, David Chernikoff - The Dharma in a NutshellWe will meet in a 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 until 6:55pm to let you into the building.
Dharma teacher David Chernikoff from Boulder, Colorado will join us via zoom. David's talk is "The Dharma in a Nutshell".
6:30 Hall opens 6:45 Zoom room opens 7:00 Meditation led by David Chernikoff 7:35 Introductions and Announcements 7:45 Dharma talk by David, followed by discussion
David has been a student of meditation since 1971. He completed the inaugural Community Dharma Leader training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1988. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other contemplative traditions, most notably Ram Dass, Father Thomas Keating, Zen teacher Yvonne Rand, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. David taught meditation and psychology at Naropa University for many years and currently has a private practice as a spiritual counselor and life coach in Boulder. He teaches workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. David is the author of Life, Part Two: Seven Keys to Awakening with Purpose and Joy as You Age. For more information, please see his website: www.davidchernikoff.com. (Many of David's recorded talks can be found on "Dharma Talks" tab of his site.) 11/14/24
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