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
Carol Wilson: Reflections on right view and wise attention.
May 08, 2022 19:31 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Right attitude in awareness.
Alexis Santos: Gently tending to the meditating mind.
May 08, 2022 14:47 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Mark Nunberg: Morning instructions iand Q&A
May 08, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Mark Nunberg: Evening Dharma reflection: keeping present moment awareness in mind.
May 07, 2022 19:32 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Carol Wilson: Sayadaw U Tejaniya Instructions
May 07, 2022 14:46 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Right view – and the condition giving rise to right view - is wise attention
Alexis Santos: This human life in right view
May 02, 2022 19:33 - 50 minutes - 23 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta: Chanting and questions and response
April 28, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 42.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Seven factors of awakening in emptiness (announcements initially)
April 28, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Poems of "Another Sama", Dhira, and "Another Tissa"
April 28, 2022 08:19 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the poems of these three Theris and offering encouragement and guidance on taking the practice from retreat into one daily life
Ayya Santacitta: Working ourselves out of Dukkha.
April 27, 2022 19:15 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Chanting followed by silence and then a Dharma talk on the four stages of awakening and the 10 fetters
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided mudita meditation.
April 27, 2022 14:01 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Realization and actualization equals wisdom and confidence
April 27, 2022 08:19 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sometimes the most direct path isn't a straight line
Ayya Santacitta: The heart of Buddhism
April 26, 2022 08:17 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Nothing whatsoever should be clung to
Ayya Santacitta: Not willfully changing anything, but seeing with increasing clarity.
April 25, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The three characteristics and letting go.
Ayya Santacitta: The body is fragile. Give it back to nature
April 25, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on body parts and emptiness
Erin Treat: Path, acceptance, descent, and return: Story of Inanna
March 13, 2022 19:31 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Love and its relation with wisdom.
March 07, 2022 19:30 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Erin Treat: Compassion and the three kinds of suffering.
March 06, 2022 19:30 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth
March 06, 2022 16:13 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
DaRa Williams: Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana
March 06, 2022 08:16 - 54 minutes - 25 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pain a body and emotions is a part of opening. Understanding the importance and usefulness of including Vedana in practice
Erin Treat: Guided compassion meditation
March 05, 2022 16:14 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk
March 05, 2022 08:15 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present
March 04, 2022 19:31 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
DaRa Williams: Loving-kindness instruction – day two
March 04, 2022 16:16 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Circle of benefactors
Erin Treat: Morning instructions – anchors
March 04, 2022 08:16 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Erin Treat: Mindfulness as a path of happiness
March 03, 2022 19:29 - 43 minutes - 20 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta practice
March 03, 2022 16:15 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The alternatives to love, hate or apathy, are not visible
Oren Jay Sofer: Revealing the Clear Mind
February 13, 2022 20:37 - 55 minutes - 101 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of how the path cultivates clarity of mind, through mindfulness and knowing the obscurations.
Bart van Melik: Sudden awakening, gradual cultivation
February 09, 2022 19:16 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bart van Melik: Cultivation Of Compassion
February 08, 2022 15:02 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bart van Melik: Keep calmly knowing change
February 08, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 30.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation on impermanence
Bart van Melik: Befriending difficult emotions
February 07, 2022 19:15 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
nakawe cuebas: Compassion
February 07, 2022 15:03 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How can I help? Quan Yin energy with meditation phrases
Bart van Melik: Creative with kindness
February 06, 2022 15:01 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions to connect with kindness
nakawe cuebas: Wisdom of the body
February 05, 2022 19:17 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the body as Refuge
Bart van Melik, Devin Berry, nakawe cuebas: Opening Talk
February 04, 2022 19:27 - 1 hour - 32.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding the way home to natural awareness
Kristina Bare: Metta for self, easy being, neutral being, and difficult being
January 31, 2022 15:01 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tara Mulay: Day two morning instructions were thinking and emotions
January 31, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tara Mulay: Practicing with the hindrances and understanding Dukkha.
January 30, 2022 19:16 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with the hindrances as an aspect of the fourth foundation of mindfulness.
Kristina Bare: Metta and compassion for self.
January 30, 2022 15:01 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When Metta meets suffering it naturally transforms into compassion
Bonnie Duran: Scanning the body for feeling Tone.
January 30, 2022 08:15 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on Vedana.
Bonnie Duran: Reflections to realize in permanence.
January 29, 2022 19:16 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses the body and feeling tone reflections that help realize impermanence.
Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Balancing Sensitivity and Safety
December 22, 2021 08:28 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Mark Nunberg: Appreciating Equanimity
December 21, 2021 19:04 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Equanimity can develop into a radiant and powerful balance of heart and mind that provides both a taste of freedom and clarifies the path of practice. Equanimity arises both by learning to recognize and abide with any wholesome experience of wellbeing, and by the deepening insight into the transitory, ephemeral nature of all things leading onward to dispassion
Jean Esther: Loving kindness practice with the "neutral person"
December 04, 2021 14:16 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description of the importance of working with a neutral person and strengthening the capacity of non-discriminating loving kindness. Includes a guided practice.
Jean Esther: Why Practice? Setting in motion the wheel of truth.
December 03, 2021 08:16 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An elaboration of the third of the Four Noble Truths
Jean Esther: Metta Practice For Self
December 02, 2021 14:15 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided metta practice for working with the self, including ways to work with difficulty with oneself as the object.
Jean Esther: Introduction to Metta practice
December 01, 2021 14:14 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short description of metta as an antidote to ill will followed by a guided practice with a focus on a benefactor or easy person
Dawn Scott: Compassion and Compassionate action
November 17, 2021 19:30 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores meditative compassion and its relationship to compassionate action.
Greg Scharf: Liberation Through Non-Clinging
November 16, 2021 19:28 - 1 hour - 28.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Five Aggregates