Resources

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to exploring Buddhist thought and practice as a living tradition, faithful to its origins, yet adaptable to the current world. The center provides a bridge between study and practice, between scholarly understanding and meditative insight. It encourages engagement with the tradition in a spirit of genuine inquiry.

The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society 
 
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society is a 501-c(3) non-profit organization which works to integrate contemplative awareness and contemporary life, to help create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society.

Garrison Institute

Explores the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world. Founded in 2003, their mission is "to apply the transformative power of contemplation to today's pressing social and environmental problems, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future."

Insight Meditation Society 

IMS is a Buddhist meditation center founded in 1975 that teaches Vipassana meditation. It operates two retreat centers, The Forest Refuge and The Retreat Center.  It is located in Barre, Massachusetts.

Institute for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
 
The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy (IMP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and training of mental health professionals interested in the integration of mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy, for the purpose of enhancing the therapy relationship, the quality of clinical interventions, and the well-being of the therapist.


Mindful Awareness Research Center
 
Part of the Semel Institute at UCLA, the Mindful Awareness Research Center's mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.

Mindfulness in Education Network 
 
This site has a range of information for educators who want to bring mindful awareness to their work environment.  They include bibliographies, a collection of articles, announcements and events and listservs.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center
 
A Buddhist retreat center in Woodacre, CA, which focuses on the teaching of Vipassana meditation.  It has ongoing classes, daylong programs, and residential retreat
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Seeds
Mindfulness leads to insight, clear and undistorted “inner seeing” of the way things really are.

Bhante Gunaratana, Founder, Bhavana Society
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