Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Devon Hase: Teachings and Meditation on Cetana (Intention)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of how intentions lead to actions (cetana leads to kamma) and the importance of being mindful of this building

Devon Hase: The Givens and the Tangles: Dukkha and the Five Aggregates of Clinging

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha’s first noble truth names the hard facts of life (birth, aging, illness, death, separation from what we love), th

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Meditation on Compassion

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of compassion can lead us to happiness, peace and freedom from suffering and its cause.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of 6 Senses

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of Mindfulness of Six Senses can help us to : prevent unskillfulness states of mind from arising, overcome Fett

Devon Hase: Mindfulness of Emotions

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on Satipatthana and guided RAIN meditation

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of Right Thought

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of Right Thought helps us to develop generosity, Loving Kindness, Compassion which leads to peace, happiness an

Joseph Goldstein: Desire and It's End

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the 2nd Noble Truth. Craving as the cause of suffering and it's end. In our meditation and our daily live

Devon Hase: Teachings on Vedana

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description and guided practice on working with vedana in the body.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Instruction on Mindfulness of the Body/Breathing

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using the properties of the 4th element to know and experience the breath and lead to insgiht into impermanence

Devon Hase: The Path Slopes Gently: Anupubbasikkhā and the Gradual Training

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha described awakening not as a leap to the summit but as a gradual training, one step laid down after another. Draw

Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Joy of PracticingThe Dhamma

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By practicing the Noble Eight Fold Path we can experience greater joy, happiness and freedom

Bhante Buddharakkhita, Brett Bethke, Devon Hase, Jill Shepherd, Nakawe Cuebas Berrios, Tuere Sala: The Practice of 3 Refuge and 5 Precepts

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Taking the refuge in the Buddha Dhamma and Sangha plus undertaking the five training guidelines can provide a firm foundatio

Matthew Hepburn: Equanimity

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James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.

Joseph Goldstein: Q and A

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Andrea Fella: The journey to freedom

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Rae Houseman: Metta -for Difficult Being

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the practice of Metta for the Difficult Being. Looking at what the practice is and what it is not. Guided Med

James Baraz: Trust

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) With so many strategies and messages about how to practice, how do we know the "right" way to practice? The Buddha said ulti

Greg Scharf: Javana Hamsa - The Swift Swan

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk on impermanence, beginning with a version of a classic Jataka story, an updated version of a talk given previously

Matthew Hepburn: A Handful of Mistakes from My Practice

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