Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
370 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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Episodes
Tara Mulay: Tasting the flavor of solitude and peace
June 12, 2024 12:00(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Akincano Marc Weber: Khandhas - aspects of experience
June 08, 2024 19:14 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Why this teaching is as difficult as it is important
Akincano Marc Weber: Brahmavihāra - aspects of experience
June 08, 2024 14:32 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Different layers of Brahmavihāra, near and far enemies with practical exercises
Gerit Stöcklmair: Vedana - hedonic tone
June 08, 2024 08:14 - 15 minutes - 7.08 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to Vidana, conditioning of it, relation to citta
Gerit Stöcklmair: Khanti - Parami of patience
June 07, 2024 19:13 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How patience helps us coping with suffering. Patience with delays, adversity. Patience and effort as complementary forces.
Yuka Nakamura: Guided metta meditation
June 07, 2024 14:29 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Offering kindness to self and others
Akincano Marc Weber, Yuka Nakamura: Morning Instructions – hindrances
June 07, 2024 08:14 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the five hindrances
Yuka Nakamura: Emptiness – an introduction
June 06, 2024 19:15 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The insight into the emptiness of all phenomena, the liberates the mind from craving and clinging. In this talk, examples are given of how we can see emptiness.
Gerit Stöcklmair: Metta meditation (guided)
June 06, 2024 14:29 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions on metta and a guided meditation on "self"
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflection on Sati and Manasikāra. Four establishments of mindfulness as the landscape of experience (4 channels) Walking instruction - Open spaciousness versus secluded space. Vedanā exploration while walking
June 06, 2024 08:18 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflection on Sati Mayasikala the four establishments of mindfulness is landscape of experience as four channels Walking instruction - open spaciousness versus secluded vedana exploration while walking
June 06, 2024 08:18 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflection on Sati and Manasikāra. AMW: Four establishments of mindfulness as the landscape of experience (4 channels) Yuka: Walking instruction - Open spaciousness versus secluded space. Vedanā exploration while walking
June 06, 2024 08:18(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Akincano Marc Weber: Four forms of Bhavana - four dimensions of meditation practice
June 05, 2024 19:15 - 1 hour - 30.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Pali traditions take on mind cultivation. A psychological take on four different tasks in meditation practice.
Akincano Marc Weber, Yuka Nakamura: Embodied presence
June 05, 2024 08:17 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sitting and walking Instructions
Annie Nugent, Devin Berry, Tara Mulay, Victoria Cary: Closing ceremony
June 01, 2024 19:30 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tara Mulay: The first three of the Four Noble Truths
May 28, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 22 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including a discussion of craving for sense pleasures, becoming, and non-becoming
Tara Mulay: The three characteristics: Annica (impermanence) Dukkha ( suffering/unreliability) and Anatta (not self)
May 24, 2024 19:30 - 43 minutes - 20 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
DaRa Williams: Taking refuge in the sangha
May 17, 2024 19:32 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An invitation to bring the three jewels front and center in our daily life
Rachel Lewis: Morning instruction: directed and undirected attention
May 17, 2024 08:13 - 56 minutes - 26 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Rachel Lewis: The Dharma as a path of joy
May 16, 2024 19:27 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Buddhism may seem to be all about suffering, but there are many forms of joy that are a indispensable parts of the path of practice
DaRa Williams: Metta - circle of benefactors
May 16, 2024 15:31 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Receptive, protective, guided meditation of loving kindness
Tuere Sala: morning instructions – body with anchors
May 16, 2024 08:12 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tuere Sala: The Three Refuges - Buddha
May 15, 2024 19:29 - 1 hour - 27.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Metta chant in English
May 11, 2024 21:36 - 3 minutes - 1.48 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Metta talk
May 11, 2024 08:29 - 13 minutes - 6.16 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Dharma Talk
May 10, 2024 20:38 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Chanting In Pali
May 10, 2024 19:30 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Greg Scharf: Dharma Talk
May 10, 2024 08:31 - 20 minutes - 9.54 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Dharma Talk
May 09, 2024 20:39 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Chanting
May 09, 2024 19:30 - 11 minutes - 5.09 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Evening guided meditation
May 09, 2024 08:30 - 21 minutes - 9.64 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Chanting In Pali
May 08, 2024 19:29 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Dharma reflection
May 08, 2024 08:30 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Evening Dharma Talk
May 07, 2024 20:38 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Evening chanting in Pali
May 07, 2024 19:29 - 58 minutes - 27 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Morning reflection and reflection
May 07, 2024 08:30 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Morning reflection
May 07, 2024 08:30 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Khemakā: Evening, chanting and dharma talk by Ayya Khemaka
May 06, 2024 19:29 - 1 hour - 50.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Greg Scharf: Guided standing meditation
May 06, 2024 08:28 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Guided Meditation
May 05, 2024 11:14 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Khemakā: Morning instructions
May 05, 2024 08:30 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Unentangled participation
May 04, 2024 20:38 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Evening puja with chanting followed by a dharma talk
Ayya Khemakā: Evening chanting
May 04, 2024 19:31 - 14 minutes - 6.72 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Khemakā: Meditation instructions – sitting and walking
May 04, 2024 08:34 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Khemakā, Greg Scharf: Retreat Opening - reflections
May 03, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro: Retreat Opening - chanting
May 03, 2024 19:21 - 10 minutes - 4.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Khemakā, Greg Scharf: Retreat opening with reflection
May 03, 2024 19:21 - 10 minutes - 4.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Greg Scharf, Roxanne Dault: Two Metta 'Chants
April 28, 2024 20:47 - 10 minutes - 4.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Rebecca Bradshaw: Healthy protections for the heart
April 27, 2024 16:15 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Moving from greed, hatred, and delusion to loving kindness and equanimity
Greg Scharf: The suffering that leads to the end of suffering
April 26, 2024 16:15 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)