Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice. It draws its strength from the way our relational sensitivities amplify and accelerate mindfulness, concentration, and compassion. Relationship is so often the basis for becoming entangled; in Insight Dialogue it can be turned towards untangling. Relationship is so often the basis for stress, fear, and longing; in Insight Dialogue, it can be turned towards serenity, safety, and contentment.
Gregory Kramer, the founder of Insight Dialogue, will be teaching this introductory program, and inviting us to explore the Buddhist path as spacious enough for all the many moments of our lives. Gregory shares: “When we explore the Dhamma together, the alertness and care we offer each other brings the teachings right down into the body. Insight Dialogue can open us up to a new, enlivened sense of our potential for an empowered and centered life.”
During this eight-week freely offered, pay what you can program, we will meet weekly to practice with the six Insight Dialogue guidelines – pause, relax, open, attune to emergence, listen deeply, and speak the truth. These simple guiding words serve as the foundation for cultivating meditative awareness. Practicing this way reveals the natural arising of metta, compassion, and joy. It provides a way to experience relational hunger and contentment, stress and ease, in the light of meditative awareness. This helps us to release habitual and reactive ways of speaking and listening. The teachings on wisdom and compassion come alive. The path forward becomes clearer.
This program will leave us with an experiential sense of Insight Dialogue and a renewed enthusiasm for a whole life path.
