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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strength...
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Episodes
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Mind 06.07.2026 57:07
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Sayadaw Vivekananda: Questions and answers and concluding remarks. 30.06.2026 1:04:33
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Sayadaw Vivekananda: Turning Away 25.06.2026 58:27
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Six kinds of turning away; Benefits in developing intuitive wisdom.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: Knowledge of Equanimity toward Formations 24.06.2026 56:27
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discerning formations as void; key features of the knowledge of equanimity toward formations.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: How does Equanimity support Wisdom? 22.06.2026 1:01:32
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity stops the cycle of reactivity; it does not get entangled in formations; it abandons fear and delight.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: How many kinds of understanding are there? 17.06.2026 57:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wisdom is having the characteristic of penetrating the individual essences is of one kind; as mundane and supramundane, it is of two kinds, etc. The breaking up of formations.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: How Wisdom is Developed in Practice 15.06.2026 58:13
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Repeated comprehension of materiality; * Enlightenment factors promote the growth of wisdom; * Liberations and hindrances; * Seeing the breaking up of formations develops wisdom.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: How Wisdom Is Developed 11.06.2026 1:02:12
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) General and specific aspects of the unfolding of wisdom.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: The Two Fields 10.06.2026 50:36
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The field of mental defilements resembles a weed-infested piece of land, and the field of wisdom is likened to a beautiful garden.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: The Acquisition of Insight 08.06.2026 58:01
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Virtue, concentration, meditation, desire (chanda), striving, faith, approaching a teacher, and more.
Sayadaw Vivekananda: What is Wisdom? 04.06.2026 55:18
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Various definitions of Intuitive Wisdom: controlling faculty of wisdom; wisdom as an enlightenment factor. Differences between perception (saññāṇa), consciousness (viññāṇa), and wisdom (paññā).
Sayadaw Vivekananda: Fundamentals of Satipatthana 03.06.2026 1:04:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Keeping the mind in the present moment, observing what is conspicuous in an effective manner.
Dawn Neal: Noble View Beyond Dichotomy 25.05.2026 40:32
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Dawn Neal: In This Very Moment 11.05.2026 41:15
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Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Happiness and Contentment as Supports for Equanimity 29.04.2026 46:58
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Jill Shepherd: Talk: Equanimity as a resource for navigating transitions 28.04.2026 44:30
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection 25.04.2026 17:37
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Three Poems and a Farewell
Caroline Jones: The Four Brahma Viharas 24.04.2026 47:10
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection 23.04.2026 16:13
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Vedana/Feeling Tone
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Seeing Self-Constructing 22.04.2026 16:57
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Jill Shepherd: Wise Effort and Anatta 21.04.2026 42:08
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Some suggestions for exploring anatta/not-self as a support for bothwise effort and deepening insight.
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Exploring Effort and Ease 20.04.2026 17:36
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Caroline Jones: Anicca/Impermanence 17.04.2026 52:07
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection 16.04.2026 16:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Patience
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Pleasant Feeling-Tones 15.04.2026 48:23
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Attuning to pleasant vedana as support for developing skillful mental qualities.
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