Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community
@saskatooninsight.bsky.social
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
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
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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
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
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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
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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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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January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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
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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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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No session tonight (Dec 24). We will resume next week (Dec 31).
You can revisit recordings of previous sessions on our SoundCloud channel.
soundcloud.com/saskatoonins...
You can revisit recordings of previous sessions on our SoundCloud channel.
soundcloud.com/saskatoonins...
December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
No session tonight (Dec 24). We will resume next week (Dec 31).
You can revisit recordings of previous sessions on our SoundCloud channel.
soundcloud.com/saskatoonins...
You can revisit recordings of previous sessions on our SoundCloud channel.
soundcloud.com/saskatoonins...
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
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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
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
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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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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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
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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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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Heart Medicine: Jeanne will summarize the teachings of the Wise Heart weekend retreat that we just held here in yxe. She’ll summarize the 4 qualities of the wise heart and offer practises for cultivating the capacity of the wise heart to meet all of our exp w/ care, balance, joy, & compassion.1/3
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Heart Medicine: Jeanne will summarize the teachings of the Wise Heart weekend retreat that we just held here in yxe. She’ll summarize the 4 qualities of the wise heart and offer practises for cultivating the capacity of the wise heart to meet all of our exp w/ care, balance, joy, & compassion.1/3
Energy can sometimes seem in short supply. This week we will explore sources of spiritual energy and the way this can spiral back to us in support; motivational energy, spiritual energy for our heart and mind, and how to channel energy toward the highest happiness.
Everyone welcome.
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Everyone welcome.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Energy can sometimes seem in short supply. This week we will explore sources of spiritual energy and the way this can spiral back to us in support; motivational energy, spiritual energy for our heart and mind, and how to channel energy toward the highest happiness.
Everyone welcome.
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Everyone welcome.
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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
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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
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.
More: linktr.ee/saskatoonins...
#Meditation #Saskatoon
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.
More: linktr.ee/saskatoonins...
#Meditation #Saskatoon
October 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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.
More: linktr.ee/saskatoonins...
#Meditation #Saskatoon
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.
More: linktr.ee/saskatoonins...
#Meditation #Saskatoon
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
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
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
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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
The 5 Spiritual Faculties are wholesome qualities which we develop as we meditate; as they mature, become known as the 5 Spiritual Powers: faith/confidence, energy/effort, mindfulness, concentration/deep settling and wisdom.This describes the path of our practice from first interest to insight.1/3
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The 5 Spiritual Faculties are wholesome qualities which we develop as we meditate; as they mature, become known as the 5 Spiritual Powers: faith/confidence, energy/effort, mindfulness, concentration/deep settling and wisdom.This describes the path of our practice from first interest to insight.1/3
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
September 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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
The 2nd group of factors in the 8fold path are a trio describing our relationship with the world through wise speech, action, and livelihood. We will explore how the compass of the heart in the first basket of wisdom provides direction and guidance in walking the path in the world. 1/3
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The 2nd group of factors in the 8fold path are a trio describing our relationship with the world through wise speech, action, and livelihood. We will explore how the compass of the heart in the first basket of wisdom provides direction and guidance in walking the path in the world. 1/3
Walking the Path Together: the Wisdom Basket. Wise view is the first path factor, and gives us our compass direction. This week we will explore the compass of the heart/mind and how we aim ourselves in the direction of peace. 1/3
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Walking the Path Together: the Wisdom Basket. Wise view is the first path factor, and gives us our compass direction. This week we will explore the compass of the heart/mind and how we aim ourselves in the direction of peace. 1/3
The last Wed is kindness night; we offer heart practices for all beings. But does this practice really include all beings, like those who cause harm? We will explore the metta sutta in how to wisely offer kindness to those who may be challenging for us. The method and benefits may surprise you. 1/3
August 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The last Wed is kindness night; we offer heart practices for all beings. But does this practice really include all beings, like those who cause harm? We will explore the metta sutta in how to wisely offer kindness to those who may be challenging for us. The method and benefits may surprise you. 1/3
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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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
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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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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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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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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August 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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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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(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
August 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
(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
🌿 Boundless Kindness: The Metta Sutta
Explore one of the Buddha’s most beloved teachings on loving-kindness. We’ll reflect on the sutta, practice mettā meditation, and consider the deep benefits of living with an open heart.
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Explore one of the Buddha’s most beloved teachings on loving-kindness. We’ll reflect on the sutta, practice mettā meditation, and consider the deep benefits of living with an open heart.
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July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🌿 Boundless Kindness: The Metta Sutta
Explore one of the Buddha’s most beloved teachings on loving-kindness. We’ll reflect on the sutta, practice mettā meditation, and consider the deep benefits of living with an open heart.
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Explore one of the Buddha’s most beloved teachings on loving-kindness. We’ll reflect on the sutta, practice mettā meditation, and consider the deep benefits of living with an open heart.
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🧠 Honeyball Mind: How the Mind Turns Experience Into Suffering
Continuing the favourite sutta series, we will hear the Buddha reveal how sense contact leads to mental proliferation and stress. We will explore how mindfulness can interrupt this chain and bring clarity, calm, and freedom.
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Continuing the favourite sutta series, we will hear the Buddha reveal how sense contact leads to mental proliferation and stress. We will explore how mindfulness can interrupt this chain and bring clarity, calm, and freedom.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🧠 Honeyball Mind: How the Mind Turns Experience Into Suffering
Continuing the favourite sutta series, we will hear the Buddha reveal how sense contact leads to mental proliferation and stress. We will explore how mindfulness can interrupt this chain and bring clarity, calm, and freedom.
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Continuing the favourite sutta series, we will hear the Buddha reveal how sense contact leads to mental proliferation and stress. We will explore how mindfulness can interrupt this chain and bring clarity, calm, and freedom.
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