Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
316 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago -IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awareness and compassion.
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Jean Esther: Perfectionism is an impediment to awakening
April 16, 2024 19:14 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What derails us on and off to cushion? This talk is an invitation to investigation perfectionism, the vulnerability that lies beneath it and the power of practicing with the 10 paramis in daily life.
Jean Esther: Loving kindness for the neutral person
April 15, 2024 14:59 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding that we are all interconnected - offering loving kindness for a neutral person through the sense of a separate self
Bonnie Duran: Guided metta from benefactor
April 15, 2024 08:16 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is the John Makransky - Tibetan metta practice of receiving metta from a benefactor
Bonnie Duran: Metta meditation: why and how
April 14, 2024 19:15 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviewed the Karaniya sutta about why and how we do metta
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless Benevolence in relationship to the difficult
April 09, 2024 14:14 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Accessing unconditional joy
April 08, 2024 19:30 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Guided meditation – boundless self and benefactor
April 07, 2024 14:04 - 1 second - 17.4 KB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless benevolence
April 06, 2024 19:30 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Howard Cohn: Guided meditation on the self-like nature of mind
April 01, 2024 08:28 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Howard Cohn: Stepping out of a view of self
March 31, 2024 19:29 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our practice creates a beautiful opportunity to know what we are in real time and the difference between that real time experience and the view of ourselves that plays in our minds
Erin Treat: Morning Instructions – Anchor and Choiceless Attention
March 31, 2024 08:29 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Erin Treat: Attadanda Sutta
March 30, 2024 19:30 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the Buddha's sense of fear and dread over the human condition, his process of seeing its origin, and the wisdom that gives rise to peace.
Erin Treat: At the core of the Citta is brilliant sanity
March 27, 2024 19:29 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The gift of practice, trusting the Dharma, reflecting upon birth, death, and finding our way
Erin Treat: Morning Instructions -Day two
March 27, 2024 19:29 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions
March 07, 2024 08:14 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise attitude
Alexis Santos: guided meditation – exploring hindrances
March 05, 2024 08:13 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Cara Lai: Awakening is for everyone
March 04, 2024 19:29 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How doubt can manifest as the belief that one is not fully on the path if they have chosen the life of the householder. Using nature as affirmation and support.
Alexis Santos: Permission to be as you are. Role of wise attitude.
March 03, 2024 19:30 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Carol Wilson: Power of steady awareness to change our relationship to life
March 02, 2024 19:28 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Alexis Santos: Guided meditation – light reminders of relaxed awareness
March 02, 2024 14:10 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Jessica Morey: Building the path to our best home: how to work with grief, and shame that can hinder Metta
February 22, 2024 19:25 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores obstacles to Metta, with a focus on shame and grief, as well as their distinction to hiri and ottappa
Oren Jay Sofer: Introduction to metta practice
February 22, 2024 08:11 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions for loving kindness, practice, and a guided meditation
Oren Jay Sofer: Kindness rooted in love
February 21, 2024 19:26 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is Metta? How do we experience it? How do we strengthen it?
Andrea Castillo: The seven factors of awakening
February 16, 2024 15:57 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Devon Hase: Meditation on Emotions and Awareness
February 16, 2024 08:27 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on RAIN and holding it all with awareness
Devon Hase: The Second Music
February 15, 2024 15:58 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on love, devotion, and finding truth through the Three Characteristics.
Andrea Castillo: Heart practices
February 14, 2024 19:13 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of generosity, lovingkindness, and compassion. Introduction and guided meditation.
Devon Hase: Receiving Metta from the Earth
February 13, 2024 19:12 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on Brahma Vihara practice and guided Receiving Care meditation
Jessica Morey: When a starfish is stuck on your face
February 13, 2024 15:58 - 1 hour - 28 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk about what mindfulness is, it's relationship to concentration, and why it's useful to practice
Devon Hase: Mindfulness of Emotions
February 07, 2024 08:16 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and guided practice on the third foundation of Mindfulness of the Heart-Mind (Cittanupassana).
Devon Hase: Wholeness and the Four Noble Truths
February 06, 2024 16:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discussions of returning to wholeness, and opening to wisdom and love. New interpretation of the Four Noble Truths
Devon Hase: Mindfulness of the Breath and Mindfulness of Sounds
February 04, 2024 08:14 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to satipatthana with a guided meditation on sounds and breathing
Devon Hase: Introduction to the Brahma Viharas
February 03, 2024 19:31 - 43 minutes - 20 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short teaching and overview of the divine abodes, followed by a guided receiving care practice.
Devon Hase: Mindfulness of Eating
February 03, 2024 11:35 - 14 minutes - 6.44 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short teaching on the practice of mindful eating, including quote from Sonya Renée Taylor (author of The Body is Not an Apology).
Rebecca Bradshaw: Saṅkhāra Dukkha and vulnerability
November 18, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Suffering due to contingency and sense impediment the resulting vulnerability in how to hold it
Jill Shepherd: Liberation through non-clinging
November 13, 2022 19:30 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the clinging aggregate of Saṅkhāra, volitional mental formations, and their role in constructing self-view
Brian Lesage: The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma
November 12, 2022 19:30 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Kim Allen: Guided meditation: metta the neutral and difficult person
November 11, 2022 19:28 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) After establishing metta with an "easy being" we can train the heart to offer goodwill to a person we do not know, and also to one who is challenging for us. Our hearts grow stronger as metta deepens and expands.
Kim Allen: Perception: distortions of it and training of it (perception)
November 09, 2022 19:29 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How we label our experience has it major impact on how much we suffer. We can train this function of mind to be wiser and less distorted
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Freedom through the practice of impermanence (anicca)
November 08, 2022 19:29 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of impermanence can help us to overcome all kinds of cravings and experience freedom from suffering.
Winnie Nazarko: Thoughts and meditation
November 07, 2022 19:30 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Is thinking/thought inside or outside of meditation practices? This talk explores how to consider thought, and how do use it to wake up
Jill Shepherd: Right effort
November 06, 2022 19:30 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring ways that effort can become unbalanced, some antidotes, and the Buddhas four-part definition of right effort in the noble eightfold path.
Brian Lesage: Being somebody and being nobody.
November 05, 2022 19:30 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of Choicelessness.
November 04, 2022 08:15 - 58 minutes - 27 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of choiceless awareness is very important for progressing on the path to liberation
Brian Lesage: Guided loving-kindness meditation
November 03, 2022 19:31 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on the importance of kindness for ourselves. This is followed by a guided meditation that includes receiving kindness, kindness for a benefactor, and kindness for oneself.
Jill Shepherd: Mindfulness Of Cetana/Intention
November 03, 2022 08:15 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the "about to" moment of intention that occurs before every action of body, speech, and mind.
Kim Allen: Faith and wisdom
November 02, 2022 19:29 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This pair of faculties – broadly speaking, the "heart" and the "mind" – can be harmonized such that our practice grows strong and balanced.
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Turning the five hindrances into wisdom
November 01, 2022 19:29 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting the five hindrances with mindfulness and wisdom can make a huge difference in either being caught in them or being free from them
Jill Shepherd: An overview of the four Bramhavihara.
October 30, 2022 19:30 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How the four skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to support balanced practice
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of the four elements
October 30, 2022 08:14 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the four elements helps to mentally dissect the body and go deeper into a visceral experience of the body