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
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey: Metta Chanting and Sit
May 27, 2020 21:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Evening metta chanting instructions for online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by chanting and sit
Michele McDonald: Dharma talk
May 27, 2020 20:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening talk of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, on self-retreat at home, meditation, and loving-kindness
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey: Sit with Instructions
May 27, 2020 15:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to the first day of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by guided meditation instructions
Darine Monroy: Morning Sit with Instructions
May 27, 2020 08:00 - 46 minutes - 32.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Preliminary meditation instructions, with ambient jungle sounds from Mexico, followed by instructions on practicing from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jean Esther: Open Choiceless Awareness - Sky Mind
March 14, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A review of one-pointed awareness opening to the vast expanse of boundless awareness.
Chas DiCapua: Thoughts
March 13, 2020 19:30 - 1 hour - 28 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to meditate with thoughts and how to have the rightrelationship to thoughts.
Jean Esther: Mindfulness Of Feelings and Emotions
March 13, 2020 08:15 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A brief description of how we can meet all emotions, pleasant and unpleasant with wisdom and compassion.
Chas DiCapua: The Five Hindrances
March 12, 2020 19:30 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to cultivate a correct view of the hindrances and how to include them in our practice.
Jean Esther: Metta Meditation (for easy person and self)
March 12, 2020 14:01 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to the Brahma Viharas and the practice of goodwill.
Jean Esther: Concentration, One Pointedness, and Renunciation
March 11, 2020 19:31 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring renunciation as a practice in support of developing stability of mind through one-pointed attention - when you let go of everything, everything belongs to you.
Chas DiCapua: Meditating With Physical Discomfort
March 11, 2020 14:01 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Establishing a correct attitude towards physical discomfort, and meditation techniques for including it in one's practice.
Chas DiCapua: Choiceless Awareness
March 07, 2020 19:30 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to practice with undirected attention and the art of going back and forth between using an anchor and not using one.
Chas DiCapua: Feeling Tone (Vedanā)
March 07, 2020 08:16 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to practice with feeling tone and why it is important
Matthew Hepburn: Calm, Steadiness, and Balance Of Mind
March 06, 2020 19:30 - 34 minutes - 16 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Calm, concentration (samadhi), and equanimity are the tranquilizing qualities which balance the energizing qualities in the factors of enlightenment. How can we practice to strengthen and develop the?
Chas DiCapua: Meditating With Thoughts
March 06, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to include thoughts in meditation practice and explore their nature.
Matthew Hepburn: When You Are Struggling And You Need A Friend.
March 05, 2020 19:30 - 58 minutes - 27.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The hindrances are motifs of mind that can propel us into suffering or freedom. How can we use loving-kindness (Metta) to let them open the door to wisdom and peace?
Chas DiCapua: Whole Body Breathing
March 05, 2020 08:16 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to feel the breath throughout the whole body, with a relaxed open awareness.
Matthew Hepburn: A Wise Approach To Pain and Discomfort
March 04, 2020 14:19 - 22 minutes - 10.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation instructions on how to continue developing wisdom and compassion through mindfulness of the body - even in experience of pain and discomfort.
Chas DiCapua: Using The Body As Anchor (with Matthew Hepburn)
March 04, 2020 08:15 - 1 hour - 29 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to use different parts of the body and different apertures of awareness to anchor and the attention to the present moment.
Alexis Santos: Day Four - Meditation Instructions
February 25, 2020 08:33 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Objects just support awareness. Allowing the awareness to know more.