My partner David and I are both Vipassana practitioners and could not find a group to meet our needs in this area - Thus, Vipassana Meditation Meetup Group formed. We have been hosting sits at our home since October on Wednesday nights, and will begin hosting at Open Heart Yoga School on Sunday nights in January 2012.

Insight (Vipassana) meditation is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body process. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principles of our lives. In short, vipassana is a way of self-transformation through self-observation.

Our group begins with a 45 minute meditation and includes time for optional discussion and questions to follow. Our intent is to provide a space to support meditation practices of any kind, although we intend to focus our discussion on insight meditation and loving-kindness (metta) practices. On evenings when we sit at our home, we offer tea during discussion.

Once a month we listen to a brief dharma talk prior to or following the sit, and the sit is decreased to 30 minutes rather than 45. On these evenings, our discussion often focuses on the content of the talk.

Please feel free to join us for a sit, or email us with inquiries about Vipassana or our group!

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Carrboro, NC 27510
Founded Aug 4, 2011
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