Devon Hase's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) Drawing from their new book "This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership", devon and nico share practical insights on bringing mindfulness and compassion into the beautiful complexity of intimate relationships. A guided meditation is followed by a teaching.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A progressive release into emptiness, and a return through the four brahmaviharās

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk on MN 121: Culasaññata sutta exploring the meaning and experience of emptiness in the Theravada tradition.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on noticing what isn't here, and thus becoming acquainted with emptiness.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on gladdening the mind and seeing the good.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reflection and poem on how to recognize dukkha and its capacity to grow trust in the moment.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's Upanisā Sutta offers one of his most quietly radical teachings: that liberation doesn't begin with getting comfortable, but with honestly meeting what hurts. Drawing on this "proximate cause" discourse from SN 12.23, this talk traces the transcendent sequence of dependent origination — from dukkha through faith, joy, tranquility, and insigh...

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on loving all parts of ourselves and the world.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice for contemplating the parts of the body, leading to an attitude to nonattachment and letting go.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Drawing on the wisdom of rivers, forests, and the four elements, this talk explores how the natural world mirrors our own deepest nature - and how turning toward impermanence, non-clinging, and the wildness of our own hearts can become a path to freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories and humor from beloved teacher Ajahn Brahm.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice for directly experiencing the four elements in the body, followed by reading of Mary Oliver's "Humpbacks."

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's contemplation of the four elements — earth, water, fire, and air — offers a gentle but radical path: from the conceit of "my body" to the felt sense of being nature itself. A guided exploration of elemental awareness, grounded in retreat experience, Satipatthana practice, and the luminous body-wisdom of beloved poets.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Deep Welcome, Reflections on Retreat and Metta Practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How does loving-kindness infuse every dimension of the path? Drawing from a sweat-drenched pilgrimage around Shikoku's 88 temples, Devon explores metta not as a single technique but as a way of life woven through the Eightfold Path — from wise intention and ethical attunement, through generosity and letting go, to the boundless radiance of the brahmavih...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Moving from body to choiceless attention to awarenenss of awareness, we consider the Bahiya Sutta and how it points to the not-self nature of things.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Drawing from the Culasunyatta Sutta and the teaching to Bahiya, this talk explores how the entire Buddhist path unfolds within the immediacy of our sensory experience. Emptiness is revealed not as a metaphysical abstraction but as the progressive letting go of what distracts us from what is peaceful—a movement from palace to forest to space to freedom itself. The wh...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and Guidance on RAIN meditation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What if aging, illness, and death aren't enemies to avoid, but teachers bowing at our feet? This talk explores the Buddha's radical invitation to turn toward life's inevitable difficulties—not with morbidity, but with the clear-eyed realism that sets us free. Through poetry, contemporary dharma voices, and the ancient practice of death awareness, we discover how con...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and guided meditation on mindfulness of the body using sensations, sounds, and breath.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and guided meditation on receiving care.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on Solstice, How to Meditate, Wise Attitude, and guided RAIN practice

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A Winter Solstice reflection on faith (saddha) as heartfelt confidence rather than blind belief. Drawing on personal stories of religious transitions and crisis, this talk explores how suffering can become the ground for genuine spiritual trust—the kind that arises from direct experience and opens us to the possibility of awakening exactly as we are. Through poetry,...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation on Caring Figure practice and receiving unconditional love.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how spiritual friendship encompasses the entirety of Buddhist practice, examining how we become intimate with ourselves, others, and the world through connection and accompaniment. Drawing on suttas, poetry, and personal stories, it reveals how talking about the dharma, offering presence to one another, and cultivating tenderness thr...