Portland Insight Meditation Center

🌿 Half Day Retreat with Enrique Collazo ~ This Saturday!

Take the morning to slow down, ground and reconnect before moving into the rest of your day.
🗓️ Saturday, March 28 | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
📍 Portland Insight Meditation Center
More information and registration: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=E9zkds

FINDING OUR WAY HOME: Nothing to fix, everything to love
A Half Day Retreat with Enrique Collazo

Saturday, March 28
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
HELD IN PERSON & ONLINE via ZOOM

Drawing from the Buddha’s teaching on dependent origination (the 12 links), we’ll explore how suffering is not a personal failure, but a conditioned process. And how perception leads to emotion, emotion to reaction, and reaction to deeply wired patterns. Rather than using this insight to judge ourselves, we’ll practice meeting these patterns with care through the Brahmavihāras: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In this way, insight becomes not a weapon against ourselves, but a doorway to care, forgiveness, and connection.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=E9zkds

✨ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲 🙏

Sunday, January 4
10:00am - 12:00pm
Offered In-Person & Online via Zoom

Begin the New Year grounded in practice with teacher trainee, Paul LaVigne, offering the Dharma talk this Sunday, January 4 on The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness: Dhammas. In this final section of the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha gives us several strategies to help us develop an expanded perspective regarding the activity of our own minds. As we combine this framing with the truth of impermanence, we develop a better capacity to let go of craving, aversion, and delusion.
https://www.portlandinsight.org/

✨ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫’𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐈𝐌𝐂: 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 & 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 ✨
Wednesday, December 31
7pm - Midnight
Offered In-person & Online via Zoom

As the year draws to a close, we invite you to join us for a special New Year’s Eve gathering led by Teacher Trainee Paul LaVigne. This reflective evening of meditation, Dharma reflection, and community offers a meaningful way to honor the year that has passed and welcome the year ahead with intention and care.
More details here: https://www.portlandinsight.org/events

Just announced!
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐐𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭: 𝐀 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
with Jim Dalton & The Daltones

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝟒:𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐦
𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐈𝐌𝐂 & 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦

Start your year by slowing down! Join resident teacher Jim Dalton with the Daltones (Karen and Doug O’Dell) for a nourishing day of mindful movement, guided meditation, silent sitting and group discussion.

Offered both in-person and online, the Saturday workshop will review several QiGong traditions: the familiar Shibashi routines, plus “The Eight Pieces of Brocade" – ancient approaches to healing and rejuvenation.

Using these practices to get in touch with our subtle somatic energy, we will explore both the active and the calming aspects of the Seven Factors of Awakening (mindfulness, energy, investigation, rapture, tranquility, concentration and equanimity). We will experience together which factors are useful for the sluggish mind, which are best suited for the restless mind, and how the Seven Factors teaching can help us enter a space of bare attention and calm abiding.

Bring a sack lunch and a snack to share with other participants if you wish. Please register by Dec. 31, so we can most effectively make arrangements for the group.

More information & registration: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=TZqeMX

Please join us in welcoming guest teacher Alexa Redner back to the teacher's seat this Sunday, December 14 to share a reflection on 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞, 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡.

Sunday, December 14
10am - 12pm
Offered in-person & online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82987870151?pwd=Tm5lNkFaak0ySFJjWlhvVU4xdXlZUT09

All are welcome—check portlandinsight.org for more info!

𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹 — 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻
Saturday, December 6 from 9:30am to 4:30pm

There's still room to join us this Saturday for a gentle, heart-centered retreat guided by Douglas Pullin. We’ll explore vedanā — the subtle “feeling tone” that colors every moment — learning to welcome each sensation as it is, without needing to fix or change anything.

Through guided and silent sitting and walking meditations, a Dharma talk, and time for reflection and questions, we’ll kindle mindfulness, kindness, and equanimity to carry with us through the season and beyond. All are welcome — in person or online.

Learn more and register here: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=bQNCGo

We have a full and inspiring weekend ahead—guest teacher Kirsten Rudestam on Sunday morning, Song Sangha that evening, and our year-end fundraiser underway. Scroll down to see what’s happening and how you can join in.

This Sunday, November 30:
Guest Teacher Kirsten Rudestam
10:00am - 12:00pm
Held In-Person at PIMC & Online via Zoom

Please join us this Sunday, November 30, as guest teacher Kirsten Rudestam returns to PIMC to share a reflection on The Gift of Belonging: Gratitude and Generosity as Reciprocity. From Kirsten: “This dharma talk explores gratitude and generosity as living expressions of reciprocity — ways of remembering our interdependence with all that sustains us.”

That evening, continue the community spirit by joining Song Sangha with Adhamh Roland, a joyful gathering of music, singing, and meditation designed to open the heart and deepen connection with yourself and the community.

We hope you’ll join us!