The Five Barriers to Meditation

Name: The Five Barriers to Meditation
Start: 2026-03-14T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-14T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States

Schedule

Sat Mar 14 2026 at 10:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States | Salisbury, MA

Please join Max Johnson, a guest teacher with North Shore Insight Meditation Community, for a half-day meditation program in Salisbury, Mass.
The Buddha encouraged us to develop our meditation practice in order to reduce and potentially eliminate our own personal suffering. He described potential difficulties we might face along the way and methods for working with those difficulties. He also taught that certain mental phenomena will not only hinder our practice, but will outright block our practice from progressing past certain points.
In this program, we will explore five of these blockers, which he called the Five Barriers. Topics include: What exactly are the Five Barriers? What are they blocking our meditation from? How do we work with them to transcend them? Do we actually even need to transcend them?
Together, we will examine these questions, and others, so that we may develop our own understandings of these Five Barriers. There will be an instructional talk along with periods of meditation, discussion, and Q&A. This program is suitable for first-time meditators and experienced practitioners alike.
To register, click the ticketing link or email [email protected] with questions.
Max Johnson has been studying and practicing Buddhism and Buddhist meditation since 2014. He has studied under various Thai, Lao, Burmese, and Sri Lankan monks, and is also qualified by Brown University to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).