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

208 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★ - 61 ratings

IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.

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Episodes

Devon Hase: Tattoos on the Heart

March 30, 2024 08:32 - 17 minutes - 8.23 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories from Father Gregory Boyle, reflections on love

Devon Hase: Untangling the Tangle: On Dependent Co-Arising and Freedom

March 29, 2024 19:04 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination, including chanting and stories. Description of how we get off the chain, dukkha and the end of dukkha.

Devon Hase: To Be a Person

March 29, 2024 08:33 - 12 minutes - 5.59 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Introduction to paticcasamuppada and Jane Hirshfield's reflection on the human condition.

Devon Hase: Like a Flower in the Sky

March 28, 2024 08:31 - 13 minutes - 6.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on emptiness and the unfabricated.

Devon Hase: Counting, This Morning, What Powers Still Remain to Me

March 22, 2024 08:30 - 12 minutes - 5.66 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Homage to Jane Hirshfield and reflections on how the path grows our equanimity, and also our humanity

Devon Hase: Equanimity is a Superpower

March 21, 2024 19:04 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How equanimity helps us navigate life in retreat and in the world

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone

March 18, 2024 08:29 - 14 minutes - 6.45 MB

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Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone

March 18, 2024 08:29 - 14 minutes - 6.45 MB

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Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on craving

March 11, 2024 08:29 - 9 minutes - 4.46 MB

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Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on craving

March 11, 2024 08:29 - 9 minutes - 4.46 MB

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Devon Hase: Miguel's Dignity

March 09, 2024 08:31 - 7 minutes - 3.23 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reading from Father Gregory Boyle's "Tattoos on the Heart." Learning our own loveliness.

Devon Hase: Karaniya Metta Sutta

March 08, 2024 19:01 - 11 minutes - 5.44 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English

Devon Hase: More Reflections on Beauty

March 08, 2024 08:29 - 12 minutes - 5.52 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.

Devon Hase: Live Wire of Authenticity

March 07, 2024 19:04 - 50 minutes - 23 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.

Devon Hase: Effortless Effort

March 03, 2024 08:31 - 14 minutes - 6.74 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.

Devon Hase: Three Honorings

March 02, 2024 08:32 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.

Devon Hase: Ordinary Love

March 01, 2024 19:10 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.

Jeanne Corrigal: Morning Reflection - Recollecting our Virtue and Generosity

February 28, 2024 08:29 - 16 minutes - 7.57 MB

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Jeanne Corrigal: Metta and Liberation

February 26, 2024 19:01 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores metta and mindfulness as partners in liberation. It describes the abiding practice in 5 steps, and closes with 3 sacred going home stories.

Jeanne Corrigal: Abiding Practice

February 26, 2024 08:30 - 8 minutes - 4.04 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: reading of part of a sutta on the 5 aggregates.

February 24, 2024 08:31 - 21 minutes - 9.88 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection on impermanence/anicca.

February 22, 2024 08:30 - 21 minutes - 9.66 MB

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Jeanne Corrigal: Nature as a Teacher of Awakening

February 19, 2024 19:05 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha touched the earth and asked for help to awaken, and this can be seen as a template for us, even in difficult times. This talk begins with our own embodied experience, reflects on the Satipatthana sutta refrain as a description of how nature supports awakening, and closes with Ajahn Chah, who said that we can learn from Nature enough to be enlightened.

Jeanne Corrigal: Morning Reflection: The Four Elements

February 19, 2024 08:29 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection on the Buddha’s advice to Bahiya.

February 17, 2024 08:31 - 13 minutes - 6.02 MB

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Caroline Jones: Guided metta/goodwill/loving-kindness meditation.

February 16, 2024 19:07 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: the four brahma viharas.

May 27, 2023 08:28 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: mindfulness of the six sense bases.

May 25, 2023 08:28 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MB

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Caroline Jones: Guided metta meditation.

May 19, 2023 18:57 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: mindfulness of the body.

May 18, 2023 08:26 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB

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Greg Scharf: Karma, Rebirth and Not-Self

May 16, 2023 18:56 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: the Buddha’s advice to Bahiya.

May 13, 2023 08:27 - 11 minutes - 5.5 MB

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Caroline Jones: Five topics for frequent recollection

May 12, 2023 18:58 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MB

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Caroline Jones: Morning reflection: impermanence

May 11, 2023 08:27 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MB

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Greg Scharf: Caga, Dana, Punna and Katannuta

May 09, 2023 18:56 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Marking the occasion of Vesak, this talk, explores, the interwoven relationship of generosity, giving, merit, and gratitude