Lakeland Insight Meditation Group

Review, Foundations of Meditation, Mindfulness, Class VI, September 15, 2026   This practice is about understanding suffering and the release of suffering. We do this by studying the mind and body through direct experience. Through this process we are uncovering and practicing qualities of the heart. and after studying your mind, Mindfulness of Mind. 

Check in Review : causes and conditions; mindfulness of feeling leading to mindfulness of mind;  Example: Visiting my daughter Lenora in CT: she became extremely angry with us.  Have you ever had someone get mad at you? Really mad? How did you feel? How did you perceive this? Myself witnessing the sight and sound of h...

Foundation of Meditation, Mindfulness, Class IV, September 1, 2026. Check in, Review  

Mindfulness is the great liberator. Without mindfulness, investigation and effort, we unconsciously experience patterns of mind that are cyclic. This is called samsara. (next week) This is a path of non harm: non greed, non h...

I. Check in, Review

Everything we experience is an opportunity for freedom from suffering. Either suffering is happening, and we are identifying causes and conditions for that, and then we are able to come out of that suffering through the practice of mindfulness. If we are not suffering, we are lingering in those qualities that encourage awakeing, like ki...