Narayan Helen Liebenson is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, MA, where she has been teaching since it opened its doors in 1985. She is also one of the guiding teachers at IMS (the Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, MA. Narayan is the author of a small book entitled Life as Meditation as well as The Magnanimous Heart; Compassion and love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation, published January 2019. Her training includes over 35 years in the Theravada tradition as well as ten years in the Chan tradition with the late Master Sheng-yen. She finds it a joy and a privilege to share the buddha’s teachings with all who are interested.