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September 21, 2025
For Insight Dialogue via ZOOM
9:00 AM – 12 Noon ET
The 2025-2026 theme for practice will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta). We look forward to practicing with you.
Marsha Lawson, Stéphane Benoist, Annie Hoffman
Dharma: Right View, The Three Characteristics
Right View includes perceiving reality in a way that is conducive to enlightenment and the cessation of dukkha. We will explore seeing the truth, the reality of the Three Characteristics and how this seeing may lead to the release of suffering.
There will be periods of guided meditation, relational practice, and movement practice.
All are welcome, no registration necessary, some meditation experience would be useful, but not required.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 3553 9493 Passcode: pause
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Upcoming mini retreats.
October 26, 2025
Deborah Ennis, Annie Hoffman, Monica Williams
Dharma: impermanence
Guideline to highlight: attune to emergence
Impermanence (anicca) points to the changing nature of all phenomena, and how that leads to suffering (dukkha) and the realization that there is no inherent self, according to the teachings of the Buddha.
Today we’ll explore the arising and passing away of our thoughts, emotions and sensations internally and externally as we spend the morning with one another.
We’ll offer our “mini-retreat” format of arriving in the moment, moving through the 6 Guidelines, bringing ourselves into presence together, hearing about impermanence, meeting in break-out rooms, moving with Annie’s expert guidance, and harvesting the fruits as a group.
In each of these activities we’ll be encouraged to notice the changing nature of things from moment to moment, bringing the concept of impermanence into a felt experience, into aliveness.
Deborah Ennis, Annie Hoffman, Monica Williams
You are welcome to come to any and all of our practice sessions.
November 16, 2025
Jan Surrey and Marsha Lawson - in-person at Peace House, Cambridge.
Details TBA
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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2025-2026 Schedule
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our 2025-2026 schedule of Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series that continues with online mini retreats and occasional in person offerings.
This year’s dharma theme will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": are impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta). We look forward to practicing with you.
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 with Annie Hoffman.
You are welcome to come to any and all of our practice sessions.