insight meditation

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.”

To many people, the word "mindfulness" excludes the imagination, but, as Bodhipaksa explains, there are powerful insight practices that involve…

April 19, 2010

Want to get enlightened? Here are some tips.

Last night I taught the first night of a class on achieving Insight through meditation. This being the first night…

April 8, 2010

Self-centred Buddhism

Mark Vernon: Guardian Western Buddhism can be a serious business. If you travel to Newton Abbot in Devon, and then…

January 17, 2010

“Self, meditating,” by Robert Wright

New York Times: This Friday I’m heading up to rural Massachusetts in hopes of getting born again — again. Six…

August 20, 2009

Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation, by Larry Rosenberg

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Rosenberg's book, taken from talks given at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Massachusetts, is…

February 22, 2007

“Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom,” by Joseph Goldstein

Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Rereading Goldstein's classic recently in preparation for a forthcoming interview, I was struck by just…

January 24, 2007

“8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life,” by Victor Davich

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. You can expect from Mr. Davich's book a witty and engaging guide to some basic…

December 5, 2006

“The State of Mind Called Beautiful,” by Sayadaw U Pandita

Visiting in the 90s, I heard U Pandita speak at IMS during a three-month retreat. His key image was a…

September 5, 2006

“One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism,” by Joseph Goldstein

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Goldstein has been meditating in the Theravadin tradition since the 1960's, and is one of…

March 8, 2006