Fireside Chats with Sharon Salzberg will feature IMS’s co-founder as the host of informal live ONLINE talks about practice with members of IMS’s sangha. The first guest in the series will be Jack Kornfield Join Sharon & Jack this Wednesday, 2:30-4 PM ET!
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Happy Birthday, IMS! Today IMS celebrates its 48th year. We’re grateful to IMS’s founders, their Asian teachers, and the IMS sangha—yogis, teachers, benefactors, volunteers & staff—who have all been part of this journey. Sharon Salzberg Jack Kornfield

Sun sets on a snowy week in Barre 🌅❄️

This fall, Dan Harris, host of the Ten Percent Happier Podcast and friend of IMS, discussed nirvana with Joseph Goldstein in front of a sold-out audience in Boston. Read what they had to say in the next edition of TPH Podcast’s new newsletter. tenpercent.com/podcast

The 2023 IMS Annual Bulletin is now available on our website! Our cover story this year is on the Forest Refuge, which turned 20 this spring. Within this issue, you’ll learn about what’s been going on at IMS this past year and what’s coming up in 2024. dharma.org/annual-bulleti…

IMS is happy to participate in National Estate Planning Awareness Week, October 16-22, an ideal time to create or update your estate plan. Learn more about how to navigate this important—but often put-off—process with ease. Visit: freewill.com/ims?utm_source…

Today Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh would have turned 97. We continue to feel immense gratitude for all he has offered as a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist.

Lineage Stories is a new program from IMS Online & five Canadian Prairie sanghas seeking to preserve our teachers' stories about the Asian teachers w/ whom they studied. Begins Oct 12 w/ Joseph Goldstein & Sharon Salzberg. From our friends at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review tricycle.org/article/a-new-…

During 'Devotion to the Sacred: Awakening Wholesome States of Practice' (online 10/20-10/22) James Baraz & Alexa Redner will focus on cultivating #gratitude , #kindness , and #compassion . Hosted by IMS. More info & register: ims.dharma.org/courses/devoti…

This week, Joseph Goldstein – co-founder of IMS and a legend in the world of mindfulness – tells the story of how he has learned to keep himself open to all possibilities and embrace the uncomfortable feeling of not-knowing.

Listen here: bit.ly/46usW9D

We can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of our love and affection than we are ourselves, and we won't find that person anywhere.

Enrollment is open for The Foundations of Mindfulness, an online course taught by Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo. The course is now available in self-study mode. bit.ly/fom2023ims
Enroll by Sept. 23 with code FOM2023 to save $100
Offered in partnership with Wisdom Publications

Join Joseph Goldstein Sept 21 & 28 for an online group mentorship program. Joseph will offer support to meditators seeking to unlock the secrets of depth practice. A rare opportunity to ask questions & receive customized instruction. ims.dharma.org/courses/ask-jo…

This beautiful Buddha statue arrived today, carefully hand delivered, from my dear friend, bell hooks, who passed away in 2021. I am gifting it to IMS, so it can be enjoyed by the many yogis who pass through our doors.

Next May, IMS will offer a 9 day residential monastic retreat at no cost to retreatants. The retreat will be led by Ajahn Amaro. To support this generous offering Joseph Goldstein & Guy Armstrong will hold a benefit program on Sept 10, 7-8:30 pm ET. ims.dharma.org/courses/benefi…

Each year in mid-September, meditators from around the world come to IMS to sit our 3-Month Retreat. Registration is open, and spots are still available for Part I (Sept 12 – Oct 24). You can also register for Part 2 (Oct 24 – Dec 5) or the full 3-months. dharma.org/retreats/sched…

The universe is much to big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting go of.

Happy Birthday to our dear Sharon today ♥️🙏🏽✨

Happy birthday Sharon Salzberg! Sharon turns 71 today. We have so much gratitude for all you do for IMS and beings all over the world. ❤️ Sending you metta and many wishes for health and happiness. Here are some joyful moments with Sharon. Retweet with a birthday wish for Sharon!

Congrats to IMS teacher Bonnie Duran named in Lion's Roar as one of 'four women Buddhist teachers [who] are shaping Buddhism in America.'
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