A free field guide to insight practice
Insight meditation gets talked about as the deep stuff – the seeing-through that changes how you experience yourself and the world – but it often stays locked behind dense books and unfamiliar terms. This field guide is a way in. It treats insight as a set of ways of looking. How you attend shapes what appears, and some ways of attending bring a felt relief right now, as clinging loosens and things that seemed solid begin to soften.
It’s for any practitioner who wants to explore insight meditation and deepen their practice. The guide moves through three ways of looking – steadying, releasing clinging, and impermanence – then turns them towards the sense of self. Every practice is written out so you can do it without reading around it, and sixteen recordings go with it: the talks and guided meditations, free as a podcast.
Learning insight meditation as ways of looking opened new doorways in my practice. I still feel the reverberations of that shift in my perception and my sense of existence. Deceptively simple as it is, the framing as lenses gives you practices to take up and work with straight away, and a path that keeps filling out after years of practice.
The material was taught at a Day of Practice at the Buddhist Library in Sydney in July, and at an online workshop in September 2026. You don’t need to have been at either. Much of the framing comes from Rob Burbea, particularly his book Seeing That Frees.
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