Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Recent episodes

1. Matthew Hepburn: Guided Compassion from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Aug 2, 202649 min

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2. Matthew Hepburn: Guided Instructions: Enjoyment and Agility Amidst Discomfort from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Aug 1, 20263 hr 5 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing awareness, wisdom and flexibility in moments of ease and imperfection alike

3. Matthew Hepburn: Simplicity and Agency Through Cultivating Awareness from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 31, 202645 min

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4. Shelly Graf: Day 1: Morning Instructions from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 31, 20261 hr 7 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of body and use of anchor

5. Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 26, 202647 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation

6. Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt 1. Hiri and Ottappa: The Guardians of the World and our Morality from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 25, 202648 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) shame. fear of wrongdoing. clear knowing. reality. being protected and guided by the energies of shame and fear of wrongdoing. knowing the first (1st) and second (2nd) arrows.

7. Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Metta with / for / from self, easeful and neutral beings. from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 24, 202647 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) practicing to feel what neutral feels like in the body; how metta with / for / from a neutral being feels in the body. a spacious guided meditation.

8. Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Dana + Appamāda: Giving and Care from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 22, 202647 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) "giving. generosity. care. giver, receiver, gift. view, intention, action. beginning again as we enter into the flow and container of retreat. this is the opening talk for the retreat titled: Rooted in Presence: A Natural Path of Insight and Belonging"

9. Devon Hase: Open Hands, Open World: Taking Anapanasati Home from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

   Jul 18, 202641 min

   (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This closing talk distills the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati Sutta into what's most portable for daily life — calming the body, calming the mind, opening the heart, and letting go — offered as one continuous gesture rather than four separate teachings. We'll explore simple, concrete tools for carrying retreat-mind into ordinary moments, and extend the practice into patience and sīla as it meets daily relationship and speech. The talk closes with reflections on love, belonging, and letting go: what becomes possible once the hands are finally empty enough to receive what is already here.

10. Brian Lesage: To Love and Say Goodbye from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 17, 202642 min

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11. Devon Hase: How's the Water, Boys? from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 17, 202658 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening, the self growing quieter, a way of looking that's already free.

12. Devon Hase: The Rose-Apple Shade: Joy, Happiness, and Wholesome Pleasure on the Path from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 15, 202652 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Drawing on Bhikkhu Anālayo's scholarship on the Ānāpānasati Sutta, this talk explores the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing: the four steps in which joy, happiness, and the subtler mental formations become doorways into deep practice. We look at why pleasure, met clearly, has always belonged on the path, and how the Buddha's own early memory of ease under a rose-apple tree pointed him toward awakening long before any formal practice did. Along the way we'll draw on the words of contemporary BIPOC and queer dharma teachers on what it means to actually receive joy in the body, and explore practical instructions for steeping in wholesome pleasure and calming it without losing it.

13. Brian Lesage: Planting the Seeds of Practice: The First Tetrad of Ānāpānasati Sutta from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 14, 202640 min

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14. Kristina Bare: Morning Instructions 7/9/26 from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 9, 202620 min

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15. Kristina Bare: Samadhi from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 7, 202657 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores Samadhi as absorption and as momentary concentration

16. Tara Mulay: Concentration Retreat: Last Night Talk with Guidance for Practice in Daily Life from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 6, 202646 min

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17. Kristina Bare: Metta for Neutral Being from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 6, 202643 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided Metta for neutral being

18. Kristina Bare: Cultivating Ease with Mindfulness of Breathing from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 6, 20261 hr 0 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The instructions supports the mind to incline towards ease with breathing and wholehearted attention

19. Kristina Bare: Hindrances in Concentration Practice from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 4, 202658 min

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The talk describes the five hindrances and how to meet them in concentration practice by 1. gently ignoring, 2. bring in antidotes, 3. meeting with RAIN approach

20. Tara Mulay: With a discussion of Wise Effort. from Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

    Jul 3, 202654 min

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