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Research into Meditation and the Brain

Research conducted at IMS on Three-Month Retreat participants by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests meditation can help train attention.

View PDF of the research article, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Biology (May 7, 2007).

IMS Turns 30

When Sharon Salzberg joined two other twentysomething meditators to buy a former Catholic seminary for $150,000, creating the Insight Meditation Society, she learned for the first time what a mortgage was. View PDF... from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly (Spring, 2006).

Through Good Times and Bad 

Three pillars of American Vipassana talk to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review about 30 years of teaching in the West (Winter, 2004). View PDF...