Insight Meditation Society

The Insight Meditation Society was founded in 1975 as a nonprofit organization to provide an environment conducive to the practice of vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) meditation, and to preserve the essential Buddhist teachings of liberation. IMS now operates two retreat facilities – the Retreat Center and The Forest Refuge, which are set on 160 secluded wooded acres in the quiet country of central Massachusetts..

Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CIMC is a non-residential urban center for the teaching and practice of insight meditation. CIMC's programs and facilities are designed to provide a strong foundation for daily practice. Our program includes daily sittings, weekly dharma talks, ongoing classes and practice groups, teacher interviews, and a variety of weekend meditation retreats.

Preserves the oral tradition of contemporary dharma teaching by taping talks and instructions given by teachers at various retreat centers around the country, and supports the daily practice of students everywhere by making these tapes and other materials inexpensively available to all.

The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is a non-profit organization dedicated to healing and growth through the practices of meditation and psychotherapy. It has been developed out of 20 years of conversations among therapists, meditators, and meditation teachers in the Boston area, in order to encourage an exploration of the interactions between these disciplines. All instructors are experienced psychotherapists with long term meditation practices in the Buddhist traditions.

Resources for practice and meditation -- directories, text archives, self-guided tour through the Pali Canon.