Devon Hase's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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devon hase has practiced intensively in the insight and vajrayana traditions since discovering meditation in 2000. After a decade of bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms, she entered several years of silent, solitary retreat in the mountains of Oregon. She now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Forest Refuge, and serves as co-guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. Devon supports practitioners in both long and short retreats, as well as through personal mentoring, with an emphasis on relational practice and connection to the natural world. Along with her life...
Latest episodes
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42 min
Devon Hase: Fourth Foundation in Satipatthana Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teaching and guided meditation on practicing the fourth foundation of mindfulness.
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50 min
Devon Hase: Come and See: The Beauty of the Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The second refuge invites us into intimacy with truth: something alive, immediate, and here for us whenever we remember to look. Using the ancient c…
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44 min
Devon Hase: Second and Third Foundations of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings on vedana and mindfulness of emotions; guided RAIN practice.
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45 min
Devon Hase: Whatever Arises, Ceases: Impermanence from Stardust to This Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At the moment of his awakening, Kondañña saw that whatever arises also passes away. This talk explores impermanence at three scales: the vast span o…
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51 min
Devon Hase: Arriving Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short teaching and guided meditation on arriving, settling, steadying at the beginning of a retreat.
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34 min
Devon Hase: Equanimity: The Ground of Wise Action
(Refuge of Belonging) In this Dharma talk, devon hase explores equanimity not as indifference or withdrawal, but as a source of clarity, compassion, and courageous engagement with…
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43 min
Devon Hase: Third Tetrad: Guided Meditation on Experiencing, Gladdening, Gathering, and Liberating the Mind (R…
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and practice on the third tetrad of Anapana sati.
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53 min
Devon Hase: Temporary Freedoms: The Third Tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk follows the breath into the mind itself: experiencing it, gladdening it, gathering it, and liberating it. Along the way we look at how sam…
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43 min
Devon Hase: Mindfulness of Breathing - Preliminaries (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings on setting the conditions for anapanasati - having gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree, or an empty hut, one sets their body erec…
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43 min
Devon Hase: Metta in the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings on recognizing the metta that is already here in the body followed by a meditation.
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44 min
Devon Hase: Muditā: How to be a Backup Dancer (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on muditā, the joy that isn't ours alone. After days steadying the heart through warmth, tenderness, and spaciousness, we turn toward the bra…
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45 min
Devon Hase: Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and Guided Practice on practicing loving-kindness for oneself.
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58 min
Devon Hase: Guided Mindfulness of the Body - Arriving on the First Day (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and guided practice on settling, integrating, arriving.
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40 min
Devon Hase: Metta for a Friend
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings and Guided Meditation on Metta for a Friend
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48 min
Devon Hase: Like the River Flows: Anattā, Impermanence, and the Freedom of no Fixed Address
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A dharma talk exploring anattā through the five aggregates and the Anattālakkhaṇa Sutta, alongside Anāthapiṇḍika's deathbed teaching f…
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32 min
Devon Hase: Teachings on Rohitassa and Mindfulness of the Body
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and guided practice on embodiment
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40 min
Devon Hase: Peace and Stillness: On Passaddhi and Equanimity
(Various) A talk on tranquility as its own awakening factor, not a lesser cousin of joy or concentration. We look at how calm arises naturally out of a happy mind that knows how to…
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46 min
Devon Hase: Niramisa Sukha: On Unworldly Pleasant Feeling
(Various) A talk on unworldly pleasant vedana — the kind of ease and contentment that doesn't depend on anything going right. We trace how letting go registers in the body as pleas…
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39 min
Devon Hase: I Will Not Abandon Myself
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores adhiṭṭhāna—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what…
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39 min
Devon Hase: I Will Not Abandon Myself
(Refuge of Belonging) What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores *adhiṭṭhāna*—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is diffi…