

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Five Barriers to Meditation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am – Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: 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&amp;A. This program is suitable for first-time meditators and experienced practitioners alike.

To register, click the ticketing link or email northshoreimc@gmail.com 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).
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- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://northshoreimc.org/events/five-barriers-to-meditation?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=salisbury-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Salisbury
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States
- **lat**: 42.8273
- **long**: -70.86628
- **full address**: 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: North Shore Insight Meditation Community (https://allevents.in/org/north-shore-insight-meditation-community/21340963)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury, MA 01952-2410, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** North Shore Insight Meditation Community
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Five Barriers to Meditation ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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