Recording
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?...
Wednesday Night Talks - Livestream
with Patrick Kearney
January 15 - February 12, 2025
Over four Wednesday nights Patrick will explore the project of insight meditation as understood and practised in the lineage of Mahāsi Sayādaw. The teaching that animates our practice originates in ancient India, while the practice itself comes to us from a very different culture with its own assumptions and ways of communicating. These talks represent an attempt to understand mindfulness meditation and the insight that emerges from it in terms of our own time and culture. The talks are experimental and tentative, and far from a finished project.