Devin Berry's most recent Dharma talks (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Dharma talk and guided equanimity practice exploring steadiness of heart in uncertain times; How to care deeply without hardening, collapsing, or turning away from the complexities of modern life.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to Vedana, guiding awareness of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience as a foundation for insight and less reactivity. Includes Guided Meditation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A story-rich reflection on generosity, gratitude, and shared joy. Through teachings and lived experience, explore how giving becomes a refuge for the heart.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In times of uncertainty, loss and deep fatigue, the Buddha's teaching offers not just insight, but refuge. Through story, humor, and somatic grounding, this talk explores the four noble truths as an embodied path: naming suffering without turning away, understanding how the heart clings to feel safe, tasting moments of ease, and discovering a way of being that allow...

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A teaching on the Four Noble Truths. An exploration of suffering, clinging, release, and the path. Blending story, silence, and somatic ease, this talk reveals how the heart remembers freedom in small, human moments.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on how boundless Metta naturally becomes gratitude and generosity. Grounded in early teachings, elemental presence, embodied practice, and the simple movement of a heart learning to give freely.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is a profound shift in perspective, linking the astronauts overview effect with the Buddha's teachings on Boundlessness. Through story, reflection and classical teaching, we explore how the heart opens beyond "me", revealing clarity, shared belonging and the identity shift that makes compassion the only sane response.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Inspired by Mettagu's question to the Buddha, this reflection pints to a directly visible path through suffering. Loosening the grip of "mine" and meeting life with clarity, ease and lovingkindness.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A brief reflection on Natural Great Peace, Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche's teaching, and the Karaniya Metta Sutta as an invitation to let the tired mind finally rest deeply. Includes recording of Dhammaruwan Chanting the Metta Sutta.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on Samadhi as easeful, embodied, and quietly radical. Showing how gentleness, continuity, wise attention and wise letting go reveal a freedom that doesn't depend on striving or attainment.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Log Sutta (SN): Encouragement to trust the current, not get caught and let the Dhamma carry you home to freedom.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) A talk on training the heart in a time of heat: drawing from the Fire Sermon, the Sutta Nipata, and lived stories – showing how equanimity and compassion meets suffering without collapse, numbness, or bypass.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Final reflections of the first six weeks of the three-month retreat. It explores how refuge becomes internal rather than conditional, using the Buddha’s final instruction, the Bhaddiya narrative, and the lion’s roar to illuminate belonging, continuity of practice, and the transmission of Dhamma at transition points: for those staying for part 2 and tho...

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how compassion loosens striving, softens judgment, and reveals freedom. Through stories and practice reflections, we explore letting go, laying down the armor, and beginning again

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This session offers a brief reflection and guided meditation on expanding awareness to include sensations throughout the body. With special attention to working wisely with pain, the instructions emphasize mindful presence, compassion, and skillful relationship to experience.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores metta as both refuge and path. Through classical teachings, lived stories, and reflection, we see how metta steadies the heart, softens resistance, steadies concentration, and becomes the ground for compassion, joy, and equanimity.

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(Refuge of Belonging) A dharma talk exploring adhitthana (resolve) as a spiritual practice rooted in ancestral wisdom and lived experience. Devin shares personal stories and examples of how resolve manifests not as willpower or force, but as a quiet, steady commitment to returning again and again to what matters most - whether in meditation practice or in responding to the world's suffering with f...

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Explores the relationship between wise effort and faith on the path of insight. Through story, sutta, and reflection, this talk offers guidance for navigating striving, doubt, and comparison.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Rooted in the simile of the Lion Sutta (4.33), this talk explores how the power of the Lion’s roar—Buddha-Dharma—awakens the courage to face suffering with clarity, inner steadiness, and a heart aligned with truth and presence.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explores the Buddha’s teachings on aging, illness, death, loss, and karma—brought to life through Dharma reflections and evocative stories, inviting us to meet impermanence with wisdom, presence, and the freedom to love fully.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wisdom of the heart transcends logic—it remembers, connects, and reveals truth. This talk explores the language of the heart (citta), interbeing, and the knowing beyond thought. Through moving stories we uncover the heart’s capacity to awaken. A rich, evocative dharma reflection on trust, belonging, and awakening.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stories and reflections on the 5 recollections - embracing impermance, karma, and wisdom from the Upajjhatthana Sutta

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) compassion reflections and stories

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