Orlando Insight Meditation Group

Intensive Book Study Group led by Peter Carlson

Proposed Topic for the January 2026 Study Group Peter will be facilitating the next Intensive Study Group, which will start sometime Mid-January. The focus will be on reviewing "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa and Matthew Immergut; the subtitle is "A Complete...

How to Change Your Mind-a One Day Retreat in Apopka on January 10th

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...

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...

The next meeting is Wednesday, January 7th. There will be no meetings December 24th or December 31st.

TOPIC FOR Wednesday, January 7th, 2025 Meeting from 7pm – 9pm ET

Peter Carlson will discuss his ten day self-retreat experience that took place at the end of December.

Click here for more information about joining the meeting in person.

Click here to join Zoom Meeting.

Meeting ID: 847 1472 3882

Passcode: 620329

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

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What Is RAIN?

During this talk, Lezlie Laws describes the acronym RAIN: Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Self as a way to approach the challenges of everyday life. She is a proponent of spiritual journaling, and shares an excerpt from her personal journal entry to demonstrate how mindfulness, investigation and acknowledging the impersonal nature of our internal selfing process brings insight into our intrapersonal conflicts.

Here are two URL’s that provide descriptive content regarding RAIN:

https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/TaraBrach_RAIN_A-Practice-of-Radical-Compassion.pdf

Here’s a link of Michele McDonald’s version of RAIN, including the second half – DROP. https://vipassanahawaii.org/resources/raindrop/