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About Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer is the Founding Teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community and has been teaching insight meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has studied with esteemed teachers, including Anagarika Dhammadina, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thero, Achan Sobin Namto, and Ven. Punnaji Maha Thero. Gregory is the author of A Whole Life Path: A Layperson’s Guide to a Dhamma-infused Life (Insight Dialogue Community); Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom (Shambhala); Seeding the Heart: Practicing Lovingkindness with Children; Meditating Together, Speaking from Silence: The Practice of Insight Dialogue; and Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts. For additional information about Gregory’s teachings, please visit his website.

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Events with Gregory Kramer

The Path of Dharma Friendship

Open Dates

online

The Buddhist path was always intended to be relational. In the Upaddha Sutta the Buddha says that “having good friends is the whole of the holy life.” What is beautiful friendship, and how do we foster it?

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From One, To Two, To Many: The Dharma-Power of Specific Relationships

April 12, 2026

Online

Join Gregory for this Sangha Live Sunday Session. Specific relationships are each a nexus of power in the larger human system. The naturally intense energies and tendencies of the mind are not only amplified and their potency for action accelerated, but specific relationships also function as a vector for proliferation…

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Mettānattā : mettā as a practice of self effacement and insight

April 30 - May 9, 2026

Beatenberg, Suisse

A powerful teaching is hidden in plain sight: metta is a practice of anatta, of not-self. This can be expressed by a compound Pali word, mettānattā. When we cultivate true friendliness, we move our focus of attention from ourselves to others. This diminishes the trance of self-identity. This is one…

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Sources of Joy and Sources of Sorrow

May 13 - 19, 2026

Loenen, Netherlands

In times of global turmoil, how do we cultivate joy, wisdom, and inner balance? How do we meet the sorrows of the world without being overwhelmed? This six-day retreat invites us to explore how joy and sorrow arise in the body-heart-mind—both in silence and in relational contact with others. Drawing…

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14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

June 1 - 7, 2026

Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Growing Resilience and Relational Capacity Through careful and skillful practice, with the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will expand our relational capacities as awareness meets awareness. This is an empowering response to the alienation, cruelty, and disempowerment saturating our societies. In our fractured world, greater relational capacity offers…

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From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

November 6 - 15, 2026

Barre, MA

After some time with the teachings, practitioners can recognize when the Dharma is alive and when it is dry. There are attitudes and practices that support us in transforming what might be a conceptual understanding of the Dharma to a vibrant, intuitive, embodied experience. This retreat is about feeling the…

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