This is a free service to the community, open to anyone interested in the benefits of meditation . You can come a little early to ask questions or receive instructions. Learning to observe experiences from a place of stillness enables one to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure and pain, fear and joy, and all aspects of life with increasing equanimity and balance. As insight deepens, wisdom and compassion arise.
Insight meditation is a way of seeing clearly the totality of one's being and experience.
Growth in clarity brings about penetrating insight into the true nature of our experience and increases peace in our daily lives. As clarity develops, grasping, judgment and fear fall away. In seeing through the mind's conditioning, we can live more fully in the present moment, where we establish qualities such as compassion, equanimity, wisdom, and joy. The ultimate aim of the practice is the ending of suffering in the discovery of an unconditioned and complete freedom. It was rediscovered by Gotama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was taught by him as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art Of Living .