Programs

Start Your Week Well - Monday Morning Online Sitting

Open Dates
Start your week well by joining BMIMC for a regular Monday morning Zoom sitting hosted by Jill Shepherd and others from the BMIMC community. (Recommencing in the New Year 8-Jan-2024)

Dhamma Talk - A Genealogy of Insight (Online)

with Patrick Kearney

September 6, 2023

The practice of insight meditation (vipassana bhavana) is something many meditators in the west take for granted. It is easy to forget or overlook just how revolutionary the modern form of practice developed by the late Mahasi Sayadaw has been, and the importance of the Mahasi lineage in the propagation of Insight practice among lay people. […]

Dhamma Talk - Contemporary Theravāda (Live Stream)

with Patrick Kearney

September 13, 2023
Online
In the modern Burmese insight movement students are trained in classical insight meditation (vipassanā bhāvanā). They attain a level of understanding (ñāṇa) and return to their normal lives. If the students are Burmese Buddhists, they enter the meditation centre from a deep intuitive understanding of their own tradition and return to this tradition, where they can now make sense of what happened to them inside the centre. But what about students from outside the world of Theravāda Buddhism?...

Foundations of Buddhism & Meditation

with Danny Taylor

April 26 - 28, 2024
BMIMC & Buddhist Library (Camperdown)
This integrated process is for people interested in the foundations of Buddhism and its relationship to meditation & life.  It consists of three events, starting with a weekend at BMIMC, and two half-days in Sydney.  Meditation will be central, but explored in its Buddhist context as a foundation for living. The format will allow us to experiment with integrating meditation into our everyday lives, while appreciating the Buddha’s core messages.  This process is open to complete beginners and more experienced meditators.

Five-day Retreat

with Lesley Lebkowicz

May 10 - 15, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Lesley has been practicing vipassana meditation for 40 years and has spent several years in silent retreat in Australia, the USA and Burma. She has worked as a teacher, counsellor and writer and currently divides her time between formal spiritual practice and writing. Lesley founded and led the Canberra Insight Meditation Group for 13 years. Her […]

Two-week Retreat

with Sayalay Bhadda Manika

August 2 - 18, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This is a residential retreat, with Sayalay connecting in via Zoom from Nepal.  It is an 8 precept retreat (no meals after midday). Suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators.

The Way of Insight

with Patrick Kearney

September 13 - 22, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

Nine Day Retreat In this retreat we will practise mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken […]

Long Weekend Retreat

with Michael Dash

October 5 - 7, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

The focus of this retreat is on realistic and practical understanding of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation with an emphasis on personalising the practice and using it in everyday life.