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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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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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Caroline Jones: Compassion 27.02.2026 48:45

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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Right speech, silence and deep listening 27.02.2026 12:32

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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflections: Paramis and practice in daily life 26.02.2026 17:25

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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Practicing in Daily Life 25.02.2026 18:06

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Learning to use mindful attention to unskillful and skillful state of mind is crucial for continuity of our practice in daily life

Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Joy of Dhamma 24.02.2026 49:27

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the Noble 8 fold path can lead to experiencing a lot of joy in our practice and daily life. Joy serves as a basis & support for awakening; as a signpost to our progress, and an anti-dote to suffering

Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Anicca/Impermanence 19.02.2026 14:31

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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Reflection on Six-Factored Equanimity 18.02.2026 14:36

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of 6 senses can lead to equanimity where we are no longer attached to pleasant experience or aversive to unpleasant experiences.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Theory and Practice of Equanimity 17.02.2026 50:00

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The practice of equanimity towards beings and various states of minds, such as the eight worldly winds, can lead to peace and freedom.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of Intentions 16.02.2026 11:40

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we bring awareness to major intentions, we can make wise/wholesome choices & the practice of continuity of mindfulness, concurrence and concentration.

Caroline Jones: The Five Daily Reflections: contemplating our mortality together 13.02.2026 48:41

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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Working with Physical Pain 11.02.2026 11:42

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Pain is a given and suffering is optional. Mindfulness of unpleasant feelings, such as pain, can transform pain into fertile soil for wisdom and for freedom from suffering to arise.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of Feelings (2nd Foundation of Mindfulness) 10.02.2026 55:20

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of feelings plays a crucial role in our daily life and practice. The arising of feelings is beyond our control but mindfulness of them can make a difference between being in bondage and being free from suffering.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Practicing the 4 Protective Meditation 07.02.2026 14:43

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the 4 protective meditation namely- Reflection on the qualities of the Buddha or Dhamma or Sangha; Reflection on metta, reflection of body parts (visible ones); reflection on death causes and protect us from: Doubt, Attachment, Aversion, Laziness, respectively.

Caroline Jones: Refuge 06.02.2026 52:31

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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Guided body scan 05.02.2026 25:47

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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Theory & Practice of Lovingkindness (Metta) 03.02.2026 52:06

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is the quality of the heart/mind that wishes for the welfare, happiness and benefit of all sentient beings. Daily practice of Metta can reduce anger, aversion and lead to joy, happiness and concentration. All of which is very critical to the path of liberation.

Bhante Buddharakkhita: Reflections on one's ethical conduct (virtues) 02.02.2026 21:38

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindful reflection along with one's virtues such as observing the 5 precepts can lead to joy, happiness and fuel the path to freedom.

Winnie Nazarko: Working with Thought in Meditation 16.01.2026 57:58

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Joseph Goldstein: Questions and Answers with Joseph Goldstein 30.12.2025 1:00:58

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Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Non Attachment to Desire 29.12.2025 13:36

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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Appreciating the Good 27.12.2025 10:14

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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Impermanence/Anicca 25.12.2025 15:03

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Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: The Taste of Freedom 24.12.2025 16:14

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