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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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Episodes
Jill Shepherd: Compassion for the "difficult" person and all beings 15.11.2025 44:14
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Brian Lesage: Vast Time, Small Bodies: Letting the Dharma Flow Through 14.11.2025 46:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: The 3rd Noble Truth! 13.11.2025 1:02:01
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cessation of Suffering coincides the realization of the end of suffering with the elimination of craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence. This is the practice toward ultimate final peace, Nibbana.
Devon Hase: Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger 11.11.2025 48:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and guided practice on cultivating karuna (compassion) for a friend and a stranger.
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Sitting In Silence and Advice on practicing 11.11.2025 1:02:07
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditate like chicken! A meditator should focus on skillful intention and right effort (both of which) are under one's control. However the result are beyond one's control.
Devon Hase: Refuge in Dhamma 10.11.2025 49:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Poems, stories, and reflections on taking refuge in the truth of the dharma.
Jill Shepherd: Second Noble Truth: craving for becoming and non-becoming 09.11.2025 42:10
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes suggestions for practicing with comparing mind and the inner critic
Devon Hase: Encouragement on the Path 09.11.2025 1:24:37
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forty-five minute silent meditation followed by the story of Philippe Petit, a high wire artist that trained intensively to master his art.
Brian Lesage: Freedom and the Five Aggregates 07.11.2025 50:53
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Suffering and It's Cause 06.11.2025 1:05:49
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding Suffering and abandoning the cause of suffering (craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence) can lead to peace, happiness and freedom.
Jill Shepherd: Morning reflection: Releasing papanca / proliferation 06.11.2025 51:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Devon Hase: Paradoxes of Practice 05.11.2025 55:05
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on wise discernment and how to skillfully respond to what arises in retreat practice.
Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation & Introduction: Radiating Loving Kindness and the Selfless Nature of Experience 04.11.2025 1:09:23
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Brian Lesage: Reflections on Spiritual Bypassing and Long Retreat Practice 04.11.2025 59:01
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Devon Hase: Anicca: Impermanence 03.11.2025 42:15
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha emphasized the importance of seeing impermanence in many of his teachings. Reflections on the three wisdoms and how they relate to insight into change.
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Wholesome and Unwholesome States of Mind 03.11.2025 1:26:00
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Mindfulness practice helps us to prevent and overcome unskillful states of mind and develop and maintain wholesome states of mind.
Jill Shepherd: Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention 02.11.2025 53:24
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Metta Practice toward a difficult person and all beings 01.11.2025 1:01:51
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.
Devon Hase: Reflections on Cetana: Intentions 01.11.2025 49:55
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings and Guided Practice on working with Intention
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