Orlando Insight Meditation Group

How to Change Your Mind-a One Day Retreat in Apopka on July 12th

A basic Buddhist concept acknowledges that the mind is in a constant flow state, changing from moment to moment. This day of practice provides support for training the mind to more skillfully manage how these changes occur, interrupting unwholesome self-creating...

LifeArt Meditation with Lezlie Laws

In addition to our weekly Sangha, we invite you to join the monthly LifeArt Meditation Group, offered on the second Tuesday of every month from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. In these sessions we explore the habits of the mind and the structures of living that allow us to live...

Wednesday Night Meetings

Sangha meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7pm to 9pm and can be attended in person or via zoom. The in person meetings are held at Peter Carlson's home at 1818 Carrigan Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789. For those who haven’t been to the site, the house is the...

TOPIC FOR Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Meeting from 7pm – 9pm ET

We will begin with a 45 minute meditation followed by a Dharma talk.

We are presenting a dharma talk series this month on Women of the Dharma! Allie Vaknin will kick it off this Wednesday with a talk on the highly impactful Buddhist Nun, writer, and teacher Pema Chödrön. The following week April Koester will speak on influential Thai Buddhist Upasika Kee Nanayon and on July 23rd Lezlie Laws will speak on Karen Armstrong.

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Meeting ID: 847 1472 3882

Passcode: 620329

We hope you can join us, and we wish you well.

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Contemplating Compassion With Equanimity

This talk reviews the characteristics of compassion from a Buddhist perspective, including the “near enemy” and “far enemy” of this manifestation of lovingkindness which is focused on relieving the mind from distress and confusion. Compassion is described as the combined effects of cultivating the “hardwired” experience of empathy, supported by mindfulness, investigation of mental phenomena, and Right Effort, and associated with equanimity, which provides a balanced manifestation of this wholesome state of mind. Preceding this talk of August 14, 2024, Peter provides a guided meditation titled “Guided Compassion With Equanimity Contemplation”, the recording of which is posted within the Guided Meditations page of the website.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk: Integrating Compassion with Equanimity

The topic for the next meeting will provide a review regarding the integration of Sympathetic Joy with equanimity. Sympathetic Joy describes the empathetic enjoyment of the happiness and success of another, balanced by equanimity.