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This year, the Northeast Insight Dialogue Sangha is offering mini retreats on the The Three Characteristics: Anicca: impermanence, Dukkha: suffering or stress, and Anatta: no inherent, unchanging self.
March 29, 2026 - Online
9:00 AM – 12 Noon ET
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 3553 9493 Passcode: pause
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March Practice - March 29 - 9am - noon online
Leader: Janet Surrey, with Katie Rhodes and Annie Hoffman
Anicca and Friendship
Welcome to Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of mini retreats, organized by Insight Dialogue NE.
This year’s dharma theme is the Three Characteristics of all phenomena: impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and selflessness (anatta).
Buddhist teachings stress the importance of insight into impermanence, anicca, the rising and vanishing of all conditioned phenomena. At the same time, the teachings emphasize the crucial role of deep and long lasting friendship on the Buddhist Path.
In this mini retreat, we will explore the path of friendship with the seeming contradictions and fluidity of commitment and change. We will invite direct experience of impermanence and friendship to investigate how embodied insight into the impermanent nature of friendship might be liberating beyond the suffering and confusion we often experience. We will explore how knowing impermanence and a steady open heart can help us navigate the joys, challenges, and inevitable pain of losing connection with deep friendship.
There will be periods of silent meditation practice, dharma talk, relational meditation practice and mindful movement with Annie Hoffman.
All are welcome, no registration necessary. Some meditation experience recommended.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 3553 9493 Passcode: pause
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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Winter Spring 2026 Schedule
April Practice - April 12 - 9 am - noon online
Nolitha Tsengiwe and Subha Srinivasan (Anicca)
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April in-person practice - April 26 - Jan Surrey, Marsha Lawson, and Annie Hoffman
Time To Be Determined, registration required, details soon
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May - Mothers’ Day - Jan Surrey and Annie Hoffman
Welcome to our 2026 winter/spring 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": impermanence or inconsistency (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.
You are welcome to come to any and all of our practice sessions.