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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
Sayadaw U Jagara: GPS Meditation 07.07.2025 13:04
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves
Ajahn Sucitto: Sacredness in the world 29.06.2025 31:55
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Ajahn Sucitto: Q and A 29.06.2025 52:19
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Q1 - What would you suggest as priorities for lay practice, recollections to establish a steady orientation to Dhamma?; 13:08 Q2 - Mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 18:30 Q3 - Energy, qi, anapanasati and integration of energy; 26:24 Q4 – I feel lots of unpleasant skin sensations when sitting, What might these be? 28:46 Q5 You’ve referre...
Ajahn Sucitto: Integrating experience into the domain of release 27.06.2025 38:59
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Based on a heart that integrates around goodwill, key features of letting go arise. These are a successive process of disengagement, dispassion, cessation and release (or relinquishment). For example bitterness and guilt can be felt as they are and move on.
Ajahn Sucitto: Unicorns, demons and the heart of release 26.06.2025 52:12
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.
Ajahn Sucitto: Rituals as pragmatic resources 23.06.2025 1:04:16
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Resonating with images and meanings of the Triple Gem generates positive waves that place one in the field of the True, the Good and the Beautiful – the best place for practice.
Ajahn Sucitto: The practice of non-clinging 22.06.2025 42:49
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigate the causal process of how dhammas arise and subside, and learn how to be with that.
Ajahn Sucitto: Recollecting and entering the benevolent field 20.06.2025 55:45
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Bringing to mind and resonating with benevolent occasions in one’s life to build up a solid resonant sign to sit within – with 39 min silent meditation.
Ajahn Sucitto: Managing the waves in the lake 20.06.2025 54:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Citta/heart is like a lake with waves rippling through it. The unawakened response is to create walls to resist the unpleasant, and fences to retain the pleasant - and ‘me’ to hold it all. Awakening responses to the waves are the skills of samadhi and brahmavihara. These make the lake vast and able to allow waves to arise and subside. They are doors to...
Ajahn Sucitto: Realization goes against the grain 19.06.2025 51:03
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The process of fruition through satipaṭṭhāna entails resources, obstacles, skills, release and integration. Nibbana can be momentary whenever the consciousness of subject and object deconstructs.
Ajahn Sucitto: Q and A 18.06.2025 57:31
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Q1 00:52 When you're walking around and brushing your teeth what's your experience of the sense world and nibbana? I'd like to experience more beauty and sacredness in the sense world and cultivate a relationship with the transcendent, but it feels so out of reach; Q2 17:43 Recently I listened to a talk by Ajahn Tanissaro and he said he didn't know any...
Ajahn Sucitto: How citta unwraps 17.06.2025 56:37
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Ajahn Sucitto: Citta - skin, scars and healing 15.06.2025 53:40
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Ajahn Sucitto: Tracking experience with feeling 13.06.2025 53:07
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Turn away from the measuring mind to track how experience is, and the arising and passing of stress. In this way, we engage with the ‘noble pleasure’ that leads to samadhi.
Ajahn Sucitto: Roots of felt body - sensing the field 10.06.2025 50:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.
Ajahn Sucitto: Walking Meditation 08.06.2025 5:53
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Ajahn Sucitto: Regulating inner with outer 06.06.2025 56:38
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Through consciousness, boundaries form between subject and object; thus, me and the world. Through the stress of that, the me closes into a bag. Defense and acquisition strategies. Heart (citta) is not consciousness and can turn away from creating the same me bag. This is through regulating inner-outer sensitivities to a harmonious whole.
Ajahn Jutindharo: Meeting the Unknown 05.06.2025 43:24
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Ajahn Sucitto: Chanting: theory and practice 04.06.2025 39:14
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