All episodes of Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center:

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stories and reflections on the 5 recollections - embracing impermance, karma, and wisdom from the Upajjhatthana Sutta

Published 10/19/24

Devon Hase: The 5 recollections: Embracing impermance and letting go.

Published 10/19/24

Kristina Bare: The Gift of Letting Go

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Published 10/18/24

Kristina Bare: Equanimity - Guided Brahmavihara

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Published 10/16/24

Winnie Nazarko: Dependent Origination: Identifying the Place of Power

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talks describes the Buddha's realization that all things arise and pass away because of causes and conditions. He saw specifically how suffering/dukkha came to be. Once he understood the causes of the arising of suffering, he was able to "reverse engineer" the process, and see how suffering could be brought to an end. He specifically pointed to the vedana (feeling tone) of experience as a specific arising to relate to wisely. On a larger...

Published 10/11/24

Tara Mulay: The Fourth and Fifth Aggregates: Sankhara & Vinañña

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Published 10/06/24

Tara Mulay: Truthfulness, Mindfulness, and the Truth of the Way Things Are

Published 10/06/24

Winnie Nazarko: Practicing the 8-Fold Path on Retreat

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how retreatants practice the whole of the 8-Fold Path while on a 3-month retreat

Published 10/04/24

Kristina Bare: Seven Awakening Factors - investigation and energy

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Published 09/30/24

Tara Mulay: The Aggregate of Perception

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) With a discussion of the perception of impermanence (anicca)

Published 09/29/24

Joseph Goldstein, Winnie Nazarko: Joseph's Responses to Three Month Yogis Written Questions

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Published 09/27/24

Kristina Bare: Metta with neutral category

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Published 09/25/24

Kristina Bare: Vedena - Worldly and unworldly

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Published 09/23/24

Winnie Nazarko: Renunciation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores what the Buddha meant by "renunciation" why its important, and how it can be practiced.

Published 09/20/24

Kristina Bare: Metta as friendliness

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions on how to work with the category of "dear friend"

Published 09/18/24

Kristina Bare: Mindfulness as presence and observation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflection and what mindfulness is and how it can be developed

Published 09/16/24

Winnie Nazarko: Motivation for Practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses some of the motivations which can present in meditation practice, and encourages wisdom about which to act on.

Published 09/13/24

Pascal Auclair: Fabrications of Mind – a Refuge?

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and stories and mind creations followed by meditation and Q&A

Published 09/07/24