There are moments when the world seems filled with conflict, division, and uncertainty. We open the news, scroll through social media, or witness events unfolding around us, and it can feel as though the darkness is growing. In these moments, it’s natural to ask ourselves: What can one person really do?
As mindfulness meditation deepens, insight does not unfold in a straight, ascending line. For many practitioners, the path includes periods of fear, grief, disorientation, or loss of meaning—experiences traditionally referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul. The experience of the “Dark Night” can feel like everything is falling apart. But in Vipassanā meditation, these experiences are not signs of failure, but natural stages of insight known as the dukkha ñāṇas. In other words, these experiences are the very arising of wisdom.
Are You Practicing In Flatland? In a recent dialogue with Zen teacher and Kung Fu Sifu Keith Martin-Smith and Integral consultant and karateka Charles Crutchfield, we explored a question that cuts to the heart of both spiritual AND martial arts practice: Are we training in a way that includes the full depth of our humanity—or are we inadvertently practicing in flatland? Flatland is the collapse of complexity: reducing practice to technique without presence, spirituality without embodiment, or meditation without shadow work. Our conversation opened up the multidimensional nature of Integral Budo as a path beyond that flattening.
The Inner Path of meditation is thoroughly known. Its development is predictable, which means that it is teachable. And since it’s teachable, it’s learnable.
The Progress Of Insight: The Inner Map Of Meditation | An Online Workshop w/ Miles Kessler
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Join meditation teacher Miles Kessler for this online workshop, Feb. 25th, 2024.
| Date: | March 23, 2025 |
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| Time: | 06:00 - 09:00 pm |
| Event: | Workshop: The Progress Of Insight: The Inner Map Of Meditation |
| Topic: | Workshop: The Progress Of Insight: The Inner Map Of Meditation |
| Venue: | ONLINE VIA ZOOM |
| Public: | Public |