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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Brian Lesage: Intimacy and Sexual Energy

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.

11-19
46:17

Tuere Sala: Mudita

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Brief Reflections and Guided Practice

11-16
57:39

Jaya Rudgard: A well Spent Night

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on presence, impermanence (anicca) and uncertainty.

11-15
51:11

Andrea Fella: Recognizing Delusion

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11-14
59:52

Brian Lesage: Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

11-12
41:38

Greg Scharf: Teaching from the Metta Sutta - part 2

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The second talk in series - reflections on teachings from the Karaniya Metta Sutta

11-11
57:43

Tuere Sala: Seven Factors of Awakening

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11-10
01:00:54

Marjolein Janssen: One Who Sees Dependent Origination Sees the Dhamma

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The 12 Links of Dependent Origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) form a map of suffering's arising and cessation. By recognizing the interdependent nature of all things, we see that nothing has inherent existence, including the self.

11-09
57:58

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflections: Placing an Altruistic Intention

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11-09
53:36

Jaya Rudgard: Generosity

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dana and Caga: how the quality of generosity can be seen to underlie the whole of our practice

11-08
57:24

Andrea Fella: Five Aggregates Review and Exploring the Sense of Self

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11-07
01:01:03

Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Undirected Attention/Open Awareness

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11-06
01:04:54

Brian Lesage: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

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11-05
40:29

Greg Scharf: Teachings from the Metta Sutta - Part One

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is an updated version of a talk given in 2022

11-04
52:00

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflections on Not-Self and Intention

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

11-04
58:02

Tuere Sala: The Five Aggregates

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11-03
01:04:49

Tuere Sala: Morning Instructions

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with Intentions

11-03
58:10

Andrea Fella: Metta Practice: Difficult Person and All Beings

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

11-02
58:27

Jaya Rudgard: Thoughts and thinking: some practice instructions from the suttas

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and guided meditation

11-02
57:46

Jaya Rudgard: Honeycake among the pumpkins: the Honeyball Sutta

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Perception, proliferation and the source of our disputes with the world.

11-01
52:17
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