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Located in Ottawa, Ontario, OIMC provides opportunities to practice insight meditation and other contemplative practices amid the complexities of city living. The group is dedicated to creating a space that welcomes all people regardless of cultural and religious background, race, socio‐economic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, education, and physical ability. It is an environment where people can come together to learn, support and deepen practice. OIMC is guided in all endeavors by the ethics of non-harming, the spirit of loving friendship and compassion, the wisdom of insight, and the truth of liberation.
Latest Videos
Experiencing No Self #10: The End of Seeking
https://youtu.be/V1p71Ru2z3U This week we will delve into the topic of the ending of spiritual seeking. Last we explored how the diminishment of personal will arises when identification with the ego falls away or is transcended. Something else that happens on the path...
Experiencing No Self #8: Falling Away of Personal Will
https://youtu.be/EdYq9RUucVM This week we will delve into the difficult and often not talked about topic of free will or personal will. This will not be a philosophical discussion of free will. I will define personal will, detail how the personal will falls away as...
Experiencing No Self #7: Resting as Awareness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzux7YuTD3A Here we will move to the ways in which we can realize our true nature. What are we, if we are not this egoic self that we think we are? The beginning instruction in seeing this truth, is often called "resting as awareness"....