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Welcome to Bellingham InsightBellingham Insight Meditation Society (BIMS) supports meditation and practice in the Buddhist Theravada tradition. We do not have a single guiding teacher. Rather, we are a sangha-led community. We bring in regional and national teachers, including monastics, for residential and non-residential retreats. Our weekly programs are facilitated by senior members in coordination with our Board and Program Committee. Bellingham Insight Meditation Society welcomes visitors. To receive announcements and links to our Zoom meetings, join our list-serve by emailing bellinghaminsight+subscribe@googlegroups.com or by e-mailing the listserv moderator. Insight meditation is a simple and direct practice, the moment-to-moment investigation of the mind/body process through calm and focused awareness. Learning to observe experience from a place of stillness enables one to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure, pain, fear, joy and all aspects of life with increasing equanimity and balance. As insight deepens, wisdom and compassion arise. This practice is sometimes called "vipassana", which is a Pali word for insight. We meet at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (BUF): 1207 Ellsworth Street (at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street a few blocks north of downtown). The main entrance faces Ellsworth Street. You can become a member of the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society by completing the Membership form found on the Supporting BIMS page. NewsTuesday July 8th - Meditation and Dedication of MeritThere will be no "Soup with the Sangha" this week The kitchen at the Unitarian Fellowship is being worked on and is not available for us to use this week. Come back for soup in August!
(There is opportunity for you to sign up to make a soup or bring bread for future months. See this link to get on the schedule. You will have help!)
Our meditation will continue in a hybrid format: in-person at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth Street, at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street) and also via Zoom. Our greeters will be at the main entrance of BUF until 6:55pm to let you into the building.
After our meditation period we will have a short practice dedicating the merit of our efforts.
7:00 Silent meditation 7:45 Dedication of Merit, Introductions & Announcements
We hope to see you this Tuesday evening.
To get the Zoom link, if you are not on our email list, write to info@bellinghaminsight.org. 7/2/25
Tuesday July 1, Atul Bhattarai, Buddhist ChaplaincyAtul Bhattarai is a recent graduate from Harvard Divinity School. He is in Bellingham for a chaplaincy internship at Peace Health. Atul has agreed to visit with us and help us understand this fascinating line of work and what led him to it.
Our Tuesday gathering will continue in the hybrid format: in-person at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth Street, at the corner of Ellsworth and I Street) and also via Zoom.
Our greeters will be at the main entrance of BUF from 6:30 until 6:55pm to let you into the building.
7:00 35-minute silent meditation 7:35 Introductions and Announcements 7:45 Buddhist Chaplaincy, Atul Bhattarai 8:30 Close
We hope to practice with you Tuesday evening. 6/30/25
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