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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awareness and compassion.
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Jun 27, 2026
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Episodes
Cara Lai: Parenting, Outer and Inner, and Healing 27.06.2026 53:39
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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Gratitude Practice 27.06.2026 35:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We often overlook the absence of pain and suffering. Kaira Jewel also offers movement as an anchor.
Jean Esther: Loving-Kindness for Self 26.06.2026 0:42
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Intro to Brahmaviharas and guided metta for self
Jean Esther: Be Here Now 25.06.2026 27:28
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Intro talk by Jean Esther. Waking up to our direct experience in the present moment is the doorway to greater ease and peace in the body, mind and heart.
Cara Lai: The perfection of the heart: A case for strong determination 20.06.2026 0:29
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In a society that prizes overachieving, we are taught to scale it back in meditation practice. But strong determination is also an essential quality on the path to awakening. Here's how to fold your ambition and perfectionism into your practice.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: What Keeps Us From Knowing We Are Free 19.06.2026 44:57
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this talk, Aishah Shahidah Simmons explores the Buddha's teaching on the Five Hindrances — Sensual Desire, Ill Will, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness and Worry, and Doubt — drawing on the Saṅgārava Sutta's water similes, the lineage of Sayagyi U Bha Kin through Rev. Dr. Leon E. Wright, and the words of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde. Offered throug...
Tara Mulay: Mindfulness of Emotions and Mind-States 05.06.2026 54:45
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes instructions on 6-Part walking meditation at the end.
Carol Wilson: Some Benefits of Continuity of Awareness 26.05.2026 50:17
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.
Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness 25.05.2026 49:16
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Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Gone To The Body 23.05.2026 48:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness
Akincano Marc Weber: Four dimensions of contemplative practice. 19.05.2026 1:03:07
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner: (i) Calming & stabilzing (ii) Dis-identification and decentering (iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation (iv) The bigger Picture – ga...
Yuka Nakamura: Open awareness and awareness of awareness 19.05.2026 51:51
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: Cittānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhāna Channels Guided exercise on practicing with citta states. 17.05.2026 49:49
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience. Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories. Relationship between these channels. Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice. Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods. The ending of something as an easy connection point to citt...
Akincano Marc Weber: Dimensions of Not-Knowing (the bad kind) and possible antidotes 16.05.2026 1:03:49
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Breakdown of types of ignorance in Buddhist teaching. Unpacking some of the terms avijjā and moha. Sketching their different use in the old texts despite their occasional synonymous use. Excursions into conditionality.
Yuka Nakamura: Mindfulness of feeling tones (vedanā) 16.05.2026 52:35
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
Akincano Marc Weber: Guided Mettā Meditation (no phrases) 15.05.2026 46:44
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 40 Mins of mettā practice with aspects of compassion and forgiveness.
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflections: Ways of getting lost. Where do we go when the hindrances take over? Followed by guided meditation practice. 15.05.2026 52:44
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What happens when I'm *not* mindful? (i) Loss of fluency in our attention — (ii) Loss of the here & now (iii) Loss of the space: collapsing into things. (iv) Loss of embodiment (vI) Loss of the other
Akincano Marc Weber: Hindrances – a glance at the list of troubles and how they manifest . 14.05.2026 1:06:25
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hindrances – a glance at the list of troubles and how they manifest . The different starting points of Buddhist and Western psychology. The Buddhas vision of freedom Different types of troubles: soteriological hindrances (samyojana), afflictions (kilesa), inflations (āsava). A detailed look at the 5 nivāraṇa, the five psychological obstacles to the cul...
Yuka Nakamura: Guided Metta meditation 14.05.2026 45:37
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation on friendliness and kindness
Yuka Nakamura: Settling into the body, establishing a mindful connection 14.05.2026 54:08
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Instruction: Intro to posture and contemplation of the body. Guided practice with 6 senses. 13.05.2026 59:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Detailed advice on posture, sitting and connecting with the body. Followed by guided body contemplation exercise using the 6 sense channels.
Jessica Morey: Mettā and the Path of Awakening 29.04.2026 48:58
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how mettā and the brahmaviharās are both means and ends on the path to liberation — the very ground that allows insight to arise, and the natural expression of the freedom that results.
Jessica Morey: Metta for the Body 28.04.2026 1:05:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation metta body scan and QA
Oren Jay Sofer: The Joy That Belongs to Everyone 27.04.2026 44:00
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Joy is not a break from meeting the world's pain — it's what makes it possible to keep meeting it. An exploration of mudita, appreciative joy, and the many ways the heart can learn to rejoice.
Jessica Morey: Compassion and Empathy 26.04.2026 55:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What does it mean to let suffering touch you without being consumed by it? This talk traces a path from empathy through grief to the inexhaustible compassion of the bodhisattva — and offers practical steps for cultivating it from the inside out.
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