Welcome to Portland Insight Meditation Center
Join us on the path to greater clarity and peace.
PIMC offers a variety of opportunities for practice in the insight (vipassanā) meditation tradition, both in-person and online. Our offerings support beginners, experienced practitioners, and everyone in between.
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THIS SUNDAY, October 12 | 10:00am – 12:00pm
Vik Anantha, Teacher Trainee
Held In-Person & Online via Zoom
Join us this Sunday as teacher trainee Vik Anantha leads the Sunday program with a Dharma talk on How Conditioning Shapes Us—and How We Let Go.
In this meditation and talk, Vik will explore how conditioned patterns are formed through past experience, how they show up in the body and mind, and how we can begin to release them through awareness. He’ll also introduce the early Buddhist teaching on contact (phassa) and feeling tone (vedanā)—the moment-to-moment experiences that often give rise to habit and reactivity.
No prior experience with Buddhist teachings or Pāli is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to observe your own experience.
Coming Up...
October 9: The Wings of Awakening Class Begins
October 12: Vik Anantha, Teacher Trainee
October 18: Karma Yoga Work Party
October 19: Alexa Redner, Guest Teacher
October 26: Betsy Toll, Guest Teacher
October 26: Song Sangha
October 27: Elders in the Dharma Book Group Begins
November 2: Carole Melkonian, Guest Teacher
November 9: David Sudar, Guest Teacher
November 16: Paul LaVigne, Teacher Trainee
November 23: Alexa Redner, Guest Teacher
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Based in Portland, Oregon, the Portland Insight Meditation Community is an experiment in American Buddhism. We welcome people of all faiths, orientations, genders, abilities, ages, and racial/cultural backgrounds. The purpose of PIMC is to improve the lives of participants, their families and the greater community through meditative practice and a lifestyle that supports liberation from suffering, the awakening of wisdom, and the manifestation of compassion.
Rooted in the essential teachings of the Buddha, we are dedicated to awakening beyond the ritualism, sexism, hierarchy and other cultural artifacts that have characterized traditional religion. We value diversity and welcome anyone who is interested in investigating the inner life.