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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
Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of vedana 13.11.2025 19:45
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Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: Trust the River 10.11.2025 16:18
(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.
Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: The insubstantiality of the five aggregates 08.11.2025 17:25
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Caroline Jones: Cultivating a wise relationship with thought 07.11.2025 39:42
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of the body and the four sublime attitudes 06.11.2025 24:51
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Sally Armstrong: Instructions: Metta: self and benefactor 10.09.2025 51:39
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Caroline Jones: Compassion 14.08.2025 54:14
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Compassion 14.08.2025 18:09
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Body and brahma viharas 09.08.2025 19:45
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Caroline Jones: Renunciation 07.08.2025 54:58
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Vedana/feeling tone 07.08.2025 15:47
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Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of body 02.08.2025 15:13
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Sayadaw U Jagara: Loving Kindness Reflection 30.07.2025 11:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A warm day ahead, with a friendly attitude.
Shaila Catherine: Danger of Fixation: Right View As The Path 28.07.2025 22:17
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores right view and addresses the danger of attaching to a position, philosophy, belief, or opinion. Primary sources that inspired this talk include suttas numbered 72 and 74 the Middle Length discourses. By recognizing the problems created by clinging to beliefs and opinions, we choose instead to bring mindfulness to...
Sayadaw U Jagara: Samadhi: Samatha vs Vipassana 28.07.2025 21:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The difference between the "concentration" of serenity and the concentration of insight. Developed in the frame of the four spheres of existence.
Sayadaw U Jagara: From Patience to Equanimity 25.07.2025 13:45
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The various aspects upekkha can take in regard to our practice.
Shaila Catherine: Patience 24.07.2025 13:24
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this brief reflection, Shaila Catherine speaks about the role of patience in meditation practice. We need patience to endure conditions that we cannot control, such as heat and cold, mosquito bites, and unpleasant or wanted perceptions. We need patience to continue to cultivate mindfulness without judging our degree of success. We need patience to tr...
Shaila Catherine: What Must Be Known 21.07.2025 41:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages meditative investigation and curiosity to know the mind well. The teaching is based on AN 6.131, that instructs meditators to know 6 things (sensual desire, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma/action, suffering) in 6 ways (the phenomena as it appears, causes/origins, diversity, outcome/effects, cessation, and w...
Sayadaw U Jagara: Back from Space 21.07.2025 11:33
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.
Sayadaw U Jagara: Start with a nice day 19.07.2025 17:08
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.
Sayadaw U Jagara: Elephant's Training 18.07.2025 52:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.
Sayadaw U Jagara: Wisdom, Panna as the strongest tree 16.07.2025 20:35
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Climb a tree and use the perspective you get when on top. The street here is also compared with the body.
Sayadaw U Jagara: Body-directed mindfulness 14.07.2025 13:21
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.
Sayadaw U Jagara: Be an Island for yourself 12.07.2025 13:08
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)
Sayadaw U Jagara: Guarding the mind 09.07.2025 21:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Simile of the six animals, wanting to tame and understand their nature
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