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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Guest Teacher Kate Davies
Please join us in welcoming author and mindfulness teacher Kate Davies as she leads the weekly Heart of Freedom group to discuss the ideas in the first half of her book Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times.
From Kate: We are living at a time of unprecedented crisis, resulting in widespread fear, despair, sadness and anger. Now, more than ever, we need an authentic sense of hope – a sense of hope that is based on potentiality and possibility rather than craving and expectation. This is the type of hope offered by Buddhism.
Wednesday, May 28
7:00pm – 8:30pm
HELD IN-PERSON & ONLINE at PIMC
Guest Teachers
May 18 / Alexa Redner
May 25 / David Sudar
May 28 / The Heart of Freedom: Kate Davies
June 8 / Betsy Toll
June 15 / Carol Melkonian
June 22 / Alexa Redner
June 29 / Kirsten Rudestam
Sunday Program
Weekly Groups
Retreats / Workshops
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.