Next Practice Offering
September 27, 2026
Online
Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist
9:00 AM – 12 Noon ET - zoom
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 3553 9493 Passcode: pause
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This year the focus of the Art and Soul mini retreats will be Friendship.
"According to the teachings of the Buddha, beautiful friendship (kalyana-mitta) is an essential aspect of the path of awakening, just as central as morality and meditation. The Buddha was direct and quite emphatic that friendship is woven into the whole life of a practitioner. Friendships are central at every stage of the path. In the Upaddha Sutta (SN 45.2), the Buddha said: "Beautiful friendship is the whole of the holy life." Quote by Jan Surrey
All are welcome, no registration necessary. Some meditation experience recommended.
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practiced in direct, face-to-face, heart-to-heart relational contact. We will practice together in dyads and small groups with the six meditation guidelines - pause, relax, open, attune to emergence, listen deeply and speak the truth - and explore the power of relationship in awakening.
We hope you will join us and taste the joyful potential for release and freedom often hidden in our everyday relations. You are invited to attend any and all of these sessions. There will be periods of silent meditation practice, dharma talk, relational meditation practice and mindful movement.
You are welcome to come to any and all of our practice sessions.
Art & Soul of Insight Dialgoue is offered by the Insight Dialgoue Northeast cohort on a dana basis - by donation. If you would like to contribute to Insight Dialogue Northeast, you may do so via this link by choosing Insight Dialogue Northeast from the pull down list on the right side of the page. If you wish to contribute to individual teachers, you may do so via this link - find the teachers’s picture and bio and ways to give to an individual teacher will be listed at the bottom of the bio listing (not the donate button to the right on the page).
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Fall 2026 Schedule
"According to the teachings of the Buddha, beautiful friendship (kalyana-mitta) is an essential aspect of the path of awakening, just as central as morality and meditation. The Buddha was direct and quite emphatic that friendship is woven into the whole life of a practitioner. Friendships are central at every stage of the path. In the Upaddha Sutta (SN 45.2), the Buddha said: "Beautiful friendship is the whole of the holy life." Quote by Jan Surrey
This year the focus of the Art and Soul mini retreats will be Friendship.
September 27, 2026 - Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist - Online
October 18, 2026 - Jan Surrey and Marsha Lawson - in person at Peace House in Cambridge. Topic - Refuge in the Sangha.