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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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Andrea Fella: Love and Wisdom 09.03.2026 47:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In the receptive awareness style of practice taught by Sayadaw U Tejaniya, people often ask how the Brahma Viharas fit in to the practice. This talk describes several ways the BVs connect with this style of practice.
Mark Nunberg: Morning Instructions - 4th Day 08.03.2026 55:04
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with wise view and effort.
Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Aware with Thoughts and Noticing Attitude 07.03.2026 1:00:50
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Mark Nunberg: Relating to Hindrances with Wisdom 06.03.2026 45:05
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: How to deal with emotions such as anger 23.02.2026 15:24
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting aversion with mindfulness can lead to freedom from suffering
Peace Twesigye: Suffusion of the Brahmaviharas 20.02.2026 11:19
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Evening chanting of the Suffusion of the Brahmaviharas followed by toning with Sabra on the shruti box
Bart van Melik: Four Powerful Resolves: Wisdom, Truth, Generosity, and Peace 20.02.2026 44:47
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Drawing on the story of Pukkusāti meeting the Buddha, this talk explores four core resolves: not neglecting wisdom, protecting the truth, cultivating generosity, and training in peace. With reflections from retreat practice and daily life, the talk invites us to orient the heart again and again toward these qualities as a path of gradual cultivation an...
Devin Berry: The Steady Heart: Equanimity as a Path of Care 20.02.2026 1:07:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Dharma talk and guided equanimity practice exploring steadiness of heart in uncertain times; How to care deeply without hardening, collapsing, or turning away from the complexities of modern life.
Peace Twesigye: Mudita Reflection and Guided Sit 19.02.2026 45:28
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Grief introductory reflections on mudita are offered followed by a guided meditation using phrases to cultivate mudita.
Bart van Melik: Knowing the Mind: Awareness of Thoughts and Emotions 19.02.2026 45:11
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation explores the third foundation of mindfulness—awareness of mind states. We bring kind, steady attention to thoughts, emotions, and moods, while gently investigating our relationship to them. Seeing how mindfulness can know these experiences without being defined by them, the practice opens space, clarity, and a more compassionate...
Devin Berry: Morning Instruction: Vedana (Feeling Tone) 18.02.2026 40:01
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to Vedana, guiding awareness of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience as a foundation for insight and less reactivity. Includes Guided Meditation.
Erin Treat: Bahiya Sutta: Bare Attention, Anatta and Intimacy 13.02.2026 45:18
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Howard Cohn: Awakening To The Sky Like Nature of Mind 13.02.2026 55:42
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Howard Cohn: The Good News: You Are Not Who You Think You Are: You Are Beyond Description 12.02.2026 1:04:46
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The power of moment to moment mindful attention to awakeness to the inherent freedom and peace of our nature
Howard Cohn: Dipa M and the Buddha's Way To Happiness 09.02.2026 56:48
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness directed equally to every experience in the style of Dipa Ma opens us to shift from happiness dependent on conditions to unconditional happiness.
Nicola Redfern: Day 5 - Part 2 ID Guideline Attune to Emergence 04.02.2026 27:39
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with impermanence
Cara Lai: Say what you mean, act how you feel, be yourself 18.01.2026 1:01:58
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness isn't about pretending to be peaceful, it's about being real. Don't be afraid to be completely yourself. You are good and the world is waiting for you to stop believing otherwise.
Matthew Hepburn: Mindfulness of the Heart 18.01.2026 52:27
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Cara Lai: Putting down the burden 17.01.2026 56:36
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A meditation on finding comfort in the simple goodness of this moment, followed by a talk about feeling alone with the task of being ok in the world, followed by a meditation to locate the comfort and care that reassures us that it's safe to let go.
Cara Lai, Matthew Hepburn: Introducing Mindfulness of the Body 17.01.2026 44:29
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Day 1 sitting instructions. Very short practice suitable for beginners emphasizing relaxed relationship to the objects of attention, balanced attitude, and how to set appropriate expectatioins about unintentional thinking during meditation.
Jeanne Corrigal: Instructions and Guided Meditation: Open Awareness 14.01.2026 46:23
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and Guided Meditation in Open Awareness as a practice we do naturally, when we spend time connecting with nature externally.
Jeanne Corrigal: The Three Marks of Existence as a Nature Liberation Practice 13.01.2026 1:02:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The image of a bird flying is offered as a way of bringing together the big picture of the Satipatthana Sutta teachings, with the three characteristics as the environment the bird is flying in. The three characteristics are then situated in the refrain of the Satipatthana Sutta, which is seen as a practice from nature, to reveal our inner nature. This...
Bob Stahl: Meditation Instructions: Open Awareness 13.01.2026 45:12
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Bob Stahl: Heart of the Dhamma: 4 Noble Truths 12.01.2026 1:06:56
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The story of turning into the skid to grow in wisdom and the journey of the Buddha's awakening
Roxanne Dault: Seven Awakening Factors :: Trust and Surrender 11.01.2026 1:04:39
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Overview of the awakening factors with a focus on mindfulness and investigatiion.
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