Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or tr

Andrea Fella: What is true in this moment?

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Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind

Andrea Fella: Release - and not picking up

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Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflect

Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion t

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This re

Andrea Fella: Aware... Just This...

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Andrea Fella: Reflections on the teaching to Bahiya

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Andrea Fella: Not Knowing

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.

Andrea Fella: Rhythms of Practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a spacious, receptive awareness without looking for a particular experience or trying to make

Diana Clark: When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Knowing Change

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This reflection explores the practice of meeting experience without turning it into "me" or "mine." It invites noticing the s

Andrea Fella: Allowing what has come to be

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.

Andrea Fella: Recognizing Delusion

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Andrea Fella: Awareness of Awareness

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.

Diana Clark: No Need to Look for Insights

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as