Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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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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Joseph Goldstein: Q and A
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53 min
Greg Scharf: Javana Hamsa - The Swift Swan
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk on impermanence, beginning with a version of a classic Jataka story, an updated version of a talk given previously
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15 min
Andrea Fella: Morning Questions and Reflections
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Andrea Fella: The Five Aggregates
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1 h 04
James Baraz: Working with the Comparing and Judging Mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.
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1 h 02
Rae Houseman: Faith: Placing the Heart Upon
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of saddha, or faith, and why it matters to examine where we place our heart upon. Ultimately, practice asks us to trust…
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49 min
James Baraz: Heart Ptactice: Forgiveness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on forgiveness towards our body, mind, heart and relations with others
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58 min
Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Intention
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1 h 09
James Baraz: Instructions: Vedana
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in the meditation field
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1 h 02
Rae Houseman: Metta for Easy Being and Self
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on Metta for an easy being and for self.
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1 h 03
James Baraz: Cultivating Wholesome States
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort includes not only weakening unwholesome states but strengthening wholesome states. This talk explores how to do the latter…
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James Baraz: Instructions: including Mind States wholesome and unwholesome in the meditation field
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha recommended mindfulness of difficult states but also beautiful states such as peace joy as objects of meditation
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1 h 01
James Baraz: Variations on Five Hindrances
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them
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1 h 02
Andrea Fella: Morning Instrtuctions: Intimacy with Experience
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59 min
James Baraz: Instruction on Grounding with anchor
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using primary object of breath, body or sound to stabilize the attention
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50 min
Greg Scharf: The Path of Fearlessness and Joy
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 h 03
James Baraz: Impermanence, Letting Go and Showing Up
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha said to keep one reflection in mind as much as possible: impermanence. This reflection will support letting go, equanimity…
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1 h 03
James and Jane Baraz: Big Mind Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
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1 h 03
James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation shifts the subject of attention from objects to the awareness that knows.
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60 min
Jeanne Corrigal: Choiceless Attention Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Choiceless Attention instructions as a natural process we all know and practice when we are in nature - gazing at the sunset, watching…