Seattle Insight Meditation

Good friends, companions, and associates are the whole of the spiritual life.

Join us on the first Sunday of each month for singing, stories, mindfulness activities, tea, and cookies! Open to children ages 3–8 and their parents or grandparents.

🗓 First Sundays of the month
⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM
📍 Seattle Insight Meditation Society

No registration required. All are welcome. Led by Cubba Reese.

A joyful moment with the sangha!

Join us Saturday, May 30 (9:00am–4:30pm PDT) for a Day of Mindfulness with Guiding Teacher Tim Geil and members of the graduating Introduction to Meditation Class. Together we’ll practice sitting and walking meditation in the vipassana tradition in a hybrid format (in person and online).

Registration is required. Please sign up on our website. Details and Zoom information will be emailed to registrants in advance.

Join us for a five-week online class exploring the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha’s discourse on mindfulness of breathing. Together we’ll use the breath as a foundation for concentration, mindfulness, and insight, moving through the four sets of instructions in the sutta and exploring how to bring the practice into daily life. The teachings also connect closely with this year’s exploration of Transcendent Dependent Arising at Seattle Insight.

The class meets on four consecutive Thursdays :5/21, 5/28, 6/4, and 6/11, with a final session on 6/25 (no class on 6/18). Meetings take place on Zoom. Basic instruction in insight meditation requested. Registration required.

Join Nana Gyesie this Saturday for a daylong retreat. Beginners are welcome!

We will be exploring Transcendental Dependent Origination (TDO) as an embodied, lived realization rather than a purely conceptual or metaphysical insight. Situated in the contemporary context of 2026 and beyond—marked by technological acceleration, collective trauma, identity fragmentation, and the commodification of spirituality—the course examines how misunderstood transcendence often becomes a form of spiritual bypassing. Participants will investigate how disembodied interpretations of non-duality, emptiness, or transcendence can reinforce dissociation, ethical disengagement, and unresolved psychological patterns. Through somatic inquiry, contemplative practice, and relational reflection, the training restores Transcendental Dependent Origination as a dynamic, ethical, and nervous-system–aware process—revealing how liberation emerges not by escaping conditions, but by fully embodying their interdependence in thought, body, action, and relationship.

Register at www.seattleinsight.org.

Join Nana Gyesie for “Embodiment of Transcendental Dependent Origination (TDO): Freedom from Spiritual Bypassing,” a daylong exploring TDO as an embodied and relational practice rather than a purely conceptual idea. Through contemplative practice, somatic inquiry, and reflection, participants will explore how liberation emerges through fully engaging interdependence in body, thought, and relationship.

Beginners welcome. Offered in person and online. Registration required. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link the day before the event.

Join us Wednesdays at noon for a collective pause, a chance to return to stillness in the middle of a busy day.

Keri and Shawn offer a short reflection, followed by 30 minutes of sitting meditation and space for questions or sharing.

No registration needed. Suggested donation $5 + dana. All are welcome.

The teaching theme for 2026 is Transcendental Dependent Arising, which represents the conditional nature of awakening.

Tuere Sala gave an overview about this topic in her blog. Here are a few excerpts:

“Last year, we explored the Four Noble Truths. They represent the understanding of the relationship between dukkha, our clinging, letting go and the path in which all of this takes place. This year we are turning towards exploring the conditional nature of that letting go.”

“It may seem like letting go is something you have to learn how to do but throughout this year you will hopefully you will begin to see that letting go happens on its own. It is conditional and arises out of particular causes. We, as practitioners, learn to create the conditions that set those causes in motion and let the natural aliveness of our practice carry us towards awakening.”

“This year we are going to explore what it takes to get quiet and patient so we can begin to see this natural human capacity we have for awakening. The wisdom and compassion will enable us to recognize and appreciate the 12 links of Transcendental Dependent Arising.”

We hope you join us at Seattle Insight this year as we explore Transcendental Dependent Arising!

Blog: www.tueresala.org

Happening today: join us for the IMS/Spirit Rock Founders’ Evening Series, a special benefit event for Seattle Insight.

Hear from Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, joining online. Attend either in person or online. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a senior teacher who helped shape the Insight tradition.

Free to register, donations accepted. All are welcome.