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. Learn more about who we are.

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Featured Programs & Announcements

Making Oneself a Refuge

An LGBTQIA+ Affinity Retreat

Join Kirsten Rudestam to reflect on what it means to “take refuge” in the midst of personal and collective uncertainty.

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Lyrical Dharma: Hip Hop Sound Bath

An Evening with Born I

Experience a transformative Hip-Hop Sound Bath with Dharma teacher, rapper, and sound healer Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey).

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Exploring the Path of Joy & Well-Being

A Daylong Retreat with Alexa Redner

Explore how meditation and inquiry cultivate joy, wisdom, and connection through direct experience and wise reflection.

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This Sunday: Vik Anantha

Sunday, July 19

10:00am - 12:00pm

Offered In-Person & Online via Zoom

Emptiness is often misunderstood as meaning that nothing exists. Yet the Buddha's teachings invite us toward something quite different: a lighter, more spacious way of seeing ourselves and the world.

Join Vik Anantha this Sunday, July 19 as he explores contemplative practices for investigating emptiness directly in our own experience. We'll experiment with seeing the world as a tapestry of sights, sounds, sensations, and thoughts rather than solid objects, and explore how our lives are shaped by countless causes and conditions rather than an isolated, independent self. These practices are not meant to convince us of a philosophy, but to invite us into an experiment: What happens to the heart when we learn to see more lightly?