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Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community
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We are a community of experienced and beginning meditation practitioners in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who find support in sharing our meditation practice. https://linktr.ee/saskatooninsight
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Wisdom in Response

In the context of the Five Spiritual Faculties, wisdom shows up not as certainty, but as the capacity to respond, moment by moment, with clarity, steadiness, and care, even when conditions are uncertain or changing.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Kindness supports Wisdom and Wisdom kindles Kindness. These qualities, often described as working together as a pair, like a bird’s wings. This week our kindness practice will explore how these 2 aspects of heart/mind support each other and reflect on ways we can live these in the world today. 1/3
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January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Wisdom: the 5th Spiritual Power. What is wisdom, in the Buddhist understanding? How do we support it? How do we recognize it? Can I be wise? Does it really matter? We will explore these questions this week! 1/3
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January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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The Five Spiritual Faculties: Samādhi in Balance
Samādhi doesn’t stand alone. Within the Five Faculties, it develops in relationship with the other faculties. This talk explores samādhi as an ongoing balancing that steadies the mind and supports clear seeing in practice and daily life.
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A close-up view of a person balancing on a wooden beam. The focus is on their legs and feet, which are clad in white sneakers with untied laces and pastel-patterned socks. The person is wearing light brown, cuffed pants. The wooden beam appears weathered and slightly curved, positioned over a gravel path with shadows cast onto it. In the background, there is a blurred view of trees and foliage, suggesting a natural or park-like setting. Image by wal_172619 from Pixabay.
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Samādhi as Gathering
Within the Five Spiritual Faculties, a quality of settling arises when confidence, energy, and mindfulness are in balance. We will explore how kindness, ease, and simplicity allow the mind and heart to come together naturally, offering steadiness that supports wisdom.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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A Full Year, A Fresh Beginning

As the year turns, we pause to reflect and begin again. This talk explores how the Brahmavihārās help us hold the past with kindness, and how the Five Spiritual Faculties guide us forward with clarity, courage, and intention.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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No session tonight (Dec 24). We will resume next week (Dec 31).

You can revisit recordings of previous sessions on our SoundCloud channel.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Concentration is like a battery in the flashlight of mindfulness: the stronger the battery, the more we can see clearly. We’ll explore charging our battery of concentration without trying hard, and how these two powers work together to support us in daily ways of ease and peace. 1/3
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December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The Magic of Mindfulness: the Third Spiritual Power. We will continue to explore aspects of mindfulness, this powerful capacity that we often overlook. Mindfulness can support our equanimity, presence in life, our joy, and freedom of mind and heart.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Clearing What Obscures the Mind's Natural Clarity
The five spiritual faculties express the mind's natural capacity for clarity. The hindrances temporarily obscure this. We can learn how to shift out of reactivity and recognize the steadiness, energy, and insight already available within us.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, November 12 at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific)

For in person information or to register for Zoom access check out the link in the comments.

Everyone welcome! 2/3
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Energy is the second of the five Spiritual Factulites

**DID YOUR TIME CHANGE?**

Please join us Wednesday, November 5 at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific)

For in person information or to register for Zoom access check out the link in the comments.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The 5 Spiritual Faculties: Balancing Faith and Wisdom. The 5 faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom support us into deeper experiences of freedom. Together they guide the mind, and they also collaborate in pairs. 1/3
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October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The Wise Heart: Cultivating the Divine Abodes
Nov 7-9, 2025 with Jeanne Corrigal

A weekend retreat exploring kindness, compassion, joy & equanimity through meditation, reflection, & practice.
Everyone welcome. Offered by mutual generosity.

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October 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The Wellspring of Faith: The 5 Spiritual Faculties begin with faith, which can be a source of nourishment for the practice; a source of energy which can be channeled into the 2nd Faculty of Effort. This is not a big, flashy, faith - but comes in different flavours, some very quiet and soft. 1/3
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October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Confidence can be a complex quality - we often wish we had more confidence, that the lack of it is an obstacle for us, or, we receive messages from society about not “tooting our own horn” and get it mixed up with egotism.1/4
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October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, October at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(9pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific)

For in person information or to register for Zoom access check out the link in the comments.

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October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Walking the Path Together: the Third Basket of Mediation. In the last weeks, we have set the compass of the heart with the first basket of wise view and wise intention, and begun to engage in the world from this wisdom. 1/4
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September 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, September 17 at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(9pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific)

For in person information or to register for Zoom access check out the link in the comments.

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September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, September 10 at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(9pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific)

For in person information or to register for Zoom access check out the link in the comments.

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September 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, August 27 at 7 pm Saskatchewan time
(9pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific)

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An image of the Metta Sutta translated from Pali and an image of the Buddha in the background. “This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied, Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove. Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born — May all beings be at ease! Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings; Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Is not born again into this world.”
August 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Angulimala: Stopping Like the Moon Released 🌙

In our Favourite Suttas series: the story of Angulimala - someone who transformed from killer to arahant. A teaching on stopping harmful habits & discovering freedom.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Bahiya: In the Seen, Just the Seen

We continue our favourite sutta series with Bahiya, a sincere seeker whose urgent request brought the Buddha's briefest instruction - inviting us into direct contact with our experience, just as it is.

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A solitary traveler stands midway along a winding path that cuts through rolling blue mountains. The twilight sky transitions from deep indigo to muted lavender, with a warm ochre glow marking where the sun meets the horizon. Atmospheric watercolor washes create a sense of depth, with darker foreground tones gradually lightening toward the distant peaks. Photo by Stockcake https://stockcake.com/i/path-of-solitude_2549812_1485804
August 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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(Pg1) How do we take care of ourselves, and balance our heart and mind, in these times? How do we balance taking care of ourselves and others? The Buddha has guidance - in the form the Bamboo Acrobat Sutta, which we will explore this week. This is a continuation of our Sutta Stories Series. 1/3
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August 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM