Kamala Masters

Kamala Masters is co-founder with Steve Armstrong of the Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui, and a Guiding Teacher of the Insight Meditation Society of Barre, MA. In 1977 she began her Dharma training in the Mahasi tradition with the late Anagarika Munindra of India. In 1985, the late Ven. U Pandita also became her life-long teacher, training intensively in vipassana and metta jhana meditations in Myanmar and abroad. Presently she continues to receive practice training in this tradition from Ven. U Vivekananda of Nepal. She encourages total liberation through practicing continuity of awareness and compassion in everyday life, as well as having the balance of precision and kindness in intensive meditation training. Through the many years of her training, she raised four grateful children, and has been blessed by seven grandchildren.