Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.
Latest episodes
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Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to contr…
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Andrea Fella: What is true in this moment?
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Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind.
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Andrea Fella: Release - and not picking up
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Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
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48 min
Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion toward that…
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49 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection…
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Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This reflection i…
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Andrea Fella: Aware... Just This...
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57 min
Andrea Fella: Reflections on the teaching to Bahiya
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Andrea Fella: Not Knowing
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
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49 min
Andrea Fella: Rhythms of Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
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46 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a spacious, receptive awareness without looking for a particular experience or trying to make understan…
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Diana Clark: When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.
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50 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Knowing Change
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.
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48 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This reflection explores the practice of meeting experience without turning it into "me" or "mine." It invites noticing the subtle move…
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Andrea Fella: Allowing what has come to be
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
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Andrea Fella: Recognizing Delusion
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48 min
Andrea Fella: Awareness of Awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
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53 min
Diana Clark: No Need to Look for Insights
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.