Rebecca Bradshaw's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Rebecca Bradshaw  
 
    
        
                            
      Rebecca Bradshaw, author of Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart, has practiced vipassana and metta meditation since 1983 in both the United States and Burma. A Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, she has been teaching since 1993. "My passion is encouraging students to drop into embodied presence, and grounding this presence in wisdom and lovingkindness. When a sense of love and kindness underlies our practice, we can explore life deeply in a truly integrated way, bringing together mind, heart, and body. Wisdom then holds it all in spaciousness. I especially enjoy connecting with young people in the Dharma and teaching students on longer retreats." For more information about Rebecca and/or to make a donation to support her teaching, visit her website at www.rebeccabradshaw.org.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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            Select from Rebecca Bradshaw's
            143
            talks
    
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        1998-01-01
             Meditación De La Respiración 
    
        1998-01-01
             Meditación Del Amor Bondadoso 
    
        2017-06-05
            A Different Understanding Of Self 
    
        2004-08-15
            Acceptance And Action 
    
        2007-10-12
            Afflictive Emotions 
    
        2005-10-21
            Anicca 
    
        2011-05-29
            Assumptions About Love 
    
        2023-11-17
            Aversion 
    
        2008-09-26
            Balanced Effort 
    
        2013-04-27
            Balanced Effort 
    
        2019-04-09
            Balancing Effort In Practice 
    
        2017-04-26
            Becoming Human. 
    
        2012-04-19
            Being With Emotions With Kind Heartness Awareness. 
    
        2012-11-02
            Boredom 
    
        2022-11-25
            Boredom and being ordinary 
    
        2018-11-16
            Boredom and ordinariness. 
    
        2013-11-25
            Brahmaviharas - equanimity 
    
        2025-04-20
            Choiceless Attention Guided Meditation 
    
        2014-11-14
            Clinging and Non Clinging At the Six Sense Doors 
    
        2008-06-04
            Compassion 
    
        2023-11-09
            Craving 
    
        2011-11-04
            Craving - Tanha - Second Noble Truth 
    
        2015-11-20
            Deeply Conditioned Patterns Of Perfectionism 
    
        2019-11-22
            Delusion: The Root Of Suffering 
    
        2018-11-30
            Developing the graceful heart. 
    
        2019-07-27
            Developing The Steady, Graceful and Confident Heart 
    
        2007-03-22
            Drive Through That Town 
    
        2009-11-06
            Dukka - Three Kinds Of Suffering 
    
        2005-10-07
            Dukkha 
    
        2024-04-24
            Effort as intentionality, perseverance, and surrender 
    
        2016-10-28
            Energizing Factor of awakening. 
    
        2025-04-19
            Equanimity Brahmavihara 
    
        2023-11-28
            Equanimity, Brahma Vihara 
    
        2001-06-09
            Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness 
    
        2022-11-04
            Exploring feeling tone 
    
        2018-11-23
            Exploring not-self in our own practice. 
    
        2023-04-16
            Feeling tone - guided meditation 
    
        2017-06-01
            Finding Our Steady and Graceful Heart. 
    
        2005-06-07
            Forgiveness And Joy 
    
        2018-07-29
            Four Faces Of Compassion 
    
        2018-04-17
            Four Faces Of Compassion: Mary Tara, Kwan Yin, and Tinkerbell 
    
        2018-07-26
            Four Foundations Of Mindfulness 
    
        2006-07-01
            Four Kinds Of Happiness 
    
        2011-06-09
            Four Noble Truths 
    
        2013-11-22
            Generosity
 
    
        2010-11-05
            Gratification - Danger and Escape 
    
        2010-11-19
            Gratitude and Generosity  
    
        2015-05-31
            Guided Equanimity Brahmavihara 
    
        2022-12-01
            Guided Equinimity Brahmavihara 
    
        2019-12-22
            Guided Meditation - Metta and the Four Brahma Viharas 
    
        2018-07-28
            Guided Metta 
    
        2023-04-14
            Guided Metta - Mercy 
    
        2018-11-05
            Guided Standing Meditation 
    
        2001-10-28
            Happiness And The Greatest Happiness 
    
        2002-06-22
            Happiness And The Obstacles To Happiness 
    
        2009-06-10
            Happiness of Equanimity 
    
        2024-04-27
            Healthy protections for the heart 
    
        2008-06-11
            Impermanence And Equanimity 
    
        2022-10-27
            Instruction – anchoring 
    
        2023-10-29
            Instruction – thoughts 
    
        2025-04-17
            Instructions - Body Sensations and Emotions 
    
        2022-08-01
            Instructions and introduction: feeling tone (vedana) 
    
        2022-04-12
            Intimacy with all things. 
    
        2014-10-28
            Introduction To Brahma Vihara Practice and Guided Meditation 
    
        2012-10-30
            Introduction to Compassion Meditation
 
    
        2018-10-25
            Introduction To Metta Meditation. 
    
        2010-02-01
            Karmic Knots 
    
        2019-11-08
            Karmic Knots - 5 Stages 
    
        2013-11-08
            Knowing your Buddhist personality type can help you practice 
    
        2013-11-14
            Living In Delusion. Living In Truth 
    
        2011-06-02
            Living With Metta, Dana and Sila Practice 
    
        2016-11-18
            Mana: the conceit of I am better then, less than, equal too. 
    
        2013-10-29
            Meditation Instructions  - Emotions 
    
        2008-06-12
            Metta 
    
        2007-10-05
            Metta 
    
        2007-09-25
            Metta - Guided Meditation 
    
        2012-04-21
            Metta - Neutral and Difficult Person 
    
        2012-07-02
            Metta - self and easy people - teen retreat  
    
        2014-11-07
            Metta and Compassion in our Vipassana Practice 
    
        2008-06-01
            Metta And Its Challenges; Exploration Of The Classic "Hindrances" In Relationsh… 
    
        2022-04-13
            Metta for self and easy people. 
    
        2019-10-26
            Metta Instruction - Self and Easy Person 
    
        2015-05-25
            Metta Instructions for Self and Easy Person 
    
        2012-04-19
            Metta Meditation Introduction. Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-07-31
            Metta: Difficult Person 
    
        2007-09-28
            Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances 
    
        2007-09-28
            Mindful Awareness of the Five Hindrances 
    
        2016-07-29
            Mindful awareness of thoughts and emotions 
    
        2010-10-24
            Mindfulness 
    
        2023-04-12
            Mindfulness 
    
        2013-10-25
            Mindfulness and Investigation 
    
        2015-07-24
            Mindfulness and Metta With the Hindrances 
    
        2010-06-06
            Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2012-07-01
            Mindfulness Of Thought And Emotion 
    
        2016-06-06
            Mine development, ethics, and giving 
    
        2013-05-30
            Morning Instruction - Mindfulness of emotion 
    
        2012-06-03
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2016-10-29
            Morning instructions 
    
        2014-10-27
            Morning Instructions - Anchor 
    
        2018-10-30
            Morning Instructions - Emotions 
    
        2018-04-18
            Morning Instructions - Thoughts 
    
        2019-10-29
            Morning Instructions - Thoughts 
    
        2024-04-25
            Morning instructions – emotions 
    
        2019-11-22
            Morning Q&A 
    
        2023-11-30
            Morning reflection 
    
        2023-04-15
            Non-identification and pain 
    
        2015-04-14
            Opening Talk 
    
        2003-06-17
            Opening The Heart Of Compassion 
    
        2006-10-06
            Paramis On Retreat 
    
        2014-11-28
            Paramis On Retreat 
    
        2012-06-04
            Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions 
    
        2011-11-15
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2001-06-23
            Questions We May Ask 
    
        2019-07-28
            Receiving Metta for oneself and sharing it with an easy person 
    
        2008-06-07
            Relaxation, Curiosity And Mindfulness 
    
        2015-11-12
            Sankhara Dukkha 
    
        2019-11-15
            Sankhara Dukkha 
    
        2022-11-18
            Saṅkhāra Dukkha and vulnerability 
    
        2022-10-28
            Sense-based reality and relaxing the cognitive grip 
    
        2015-11-27
            Sila Makes Everybody Happy 
    
        2005-09-30
            Skillful Effort 
    
        2014-05-25
            Spiritual Idealism, Dukkha and Compassion 
    
        2025-04-12
            Steadying The Heart 
    
        2019-11-28
            Thanksgiving Day Reflection 
    
        2019-11-29
            The Four Brahmaviharas or Heavenly Abidings 
    
        2001-06-14
            The Four Noble Truths 
    
        2006-09-22
            The Four Noble Truths (75% Of Them) 
    
        2025-04-12
            The Graceful Heart 
    
        2007-10-19
            The Gratification, The Danger And The Escape 
    
        2012-11-08
            The Greatest Disappointment... Or Anicca and Letting Go.   
    
        2006-08-15
            The Happpiness Of The Brahmaviharas 
    
        2024-08-01
            The heart that can let go. 
    
        2022-07-29
            The hindrances as protectors 
    
        2023-11-30
            The joy of giving 
    
        2000-06-24
            The Red Pill Or The Blue Pill? 
    
        2009-06-03
            The Responsive Heart 
    
        2022-04-15
            The three characteristics teach us to let go. 
    
        2014-10-31
            Thought Based and Sense Based Reality 
    
        2009-07-30
            Trusting Our Own Experience To Teach Us 
    
        2003-07-06
            Untangling the Tangle 
    
        2015-05-28
            Viparinama Dukkha 
    
        2019-11-01
            Viparinama Dukkha 
    
        2013-11-29
            Wise Speech 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        1997-12-28
            New Year's Retreat (10 days) 
    
        1998-02-01
            IMS Audio Files 
    
        2004-08-13
            Youth Retreat 
    
        2005-09-23
            Three Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2006-06-30
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2006-08-11
            Vipassana Retreat for Ages 18 to 32 
    
        2006-09-15
            Metta & Vipassana Intensive 
    
        2006-09-15
            Vipassana Intensive Part 1A 
    
        2007-03-18
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2007-09-20
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2008-05-30
            Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat  
    
        2008-06-06
            Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2008-09-20
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2009-05-29
            Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat 
    
        2009-06-05
            Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2009-07-29
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2009-09-26
            Two-Month Retreat 
    
        2010-06-04
            Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2010-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2011-05-27
            Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat 
    
        2011-06-03
            Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2011-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2012-04-17
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat   
    
        2012-06-30
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2012-10-20
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 2  
    
        2013-04-26
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2013-05-24
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat  
    
        2013-10-22
            Three Month - Part 2  
    
        2014-05-23
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
 
    
        2014-10-25
            Three Month - Part 2
 
    
        2015-04-14
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-05-22
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2015-07-22
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2015-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2016-05-27
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat  
    
        2016-07-27
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds  
    
        2016-10-22
            Three-Month Part 2 
    
        2017-04-25
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2017-05-26
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2018-04-13
            Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2018-07-25
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2018-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2019-04-07
            Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-07-24
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2019-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2019-12-20
            Winter Solstice Insight Meditation Weekend 
    
        2022-04-11
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-07-27
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2022-10-25
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2023-04-11
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom 
    
        2023-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2024-04-22
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2024-07-28
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2025-04-11
            Grounding the Heart in Kindness-Infused Awareness: Insight and Lovingkindness W… 
    
        2025-04-14
            Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - …