Insight Meditation Society

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The Insight Meditation Society is a Buddhist organization located in Barre, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1975 by Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein, and is rooted in the Theravada tradition. It offers Buddhist meditation retreats at two facilities – the Retreat Center and the Forest Refuge – in rural central Massachusetts. The Retreat Center is one of the two largest vipassana centers in the United States.^[1]

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Insight Meditation Society Official website
Shambhala Sun Spotlight on Insight Meditation
Gaia House Insight Meditation retreat centre in the UK "informally affiliated" to the Vipassana movement.
Dharma Seed Audio Dharma talks recorded at IMS and other western Theravada centers.

^ Fronsdal (1988). Jack Kornfield's "Spirit Rock" is the other large vipassana center.

Fronsdal, Gil (1998). "Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," in C.S.Prebish & K.K.Tanaka (1998), The Faces of Buddhism in America, University of California Press. Also available on-line at: http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/articles/InsightintheUS.html