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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

This three-month course, including its six-week partials, is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom, and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

2024-10-22 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2024-10-22 Words of Encouragement 59:17
Brian Lesage, Andrea Fella, Greg Scharf, Jaya Rudgard, Tuere Sala
2024-10-23 Opening morning instructions and guided meditation 60:46
Jaya Rudgard
Keeping it simple: anchoring the attention with body and breath.
2024-10-23 The Path of Fearlessness & Joy 56:13
Greg Scharf
2024-10-24 Morning Instructions 58:42
Tuere Sala
First Foundation
2024-10-24 Skillful Supports for Mindfulness 61:29
Andrea Fella
2024-10-25 Desire and discontent for the world 47:27
Jaya Rudgard
Revisiting the hindrances of sense-desire and ill-will
2024-10-26 The Hindrances, Part 2 62:54
Tuere Sala
The Sacredness of the Hindrances generally. Working with sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt.
2024-10-27 Morning Instructions: Review of Instructions and Mindfulness of the Body 61:54
Andrea Fella
2024-10-28 Morning instructions and guided meditation 58:59
Jaya Rudgard
Vedana - feeling tones, an introduction
2024-10-29 Morning Instructions 59:01
Tuere Sala
Second Foundation - Vedana
2024-10-29 Samadhi and Nourishment 49:28
Brian Lesage
2024-10-30 Metta for Neutral Persons 53:31
Jaya Rudgard
Short Reflections and guided meditation
2024-10-31 Supports for Continuity 57:51
Andrea Fella
2024-11-01 Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts 64:37
Andrea Fella
2024-11-01 Honeycake among the pumpkins: the Honeyball Sutta 52:17
Jaya Rudgard
Perception, proliferation and the source of our disputes with the world.
2024-11-02 Thoughts and thinking: some practice instructions from the suttas 57:46
Jaya Rudgard
Instructions and guided meditation
2024-11-02 Metta Practice: Difficult Person and All Beings 58:05
Andrea Fella
2024-11-03 Morning Instructions 58:10
Tuere Sala
Practicing with Intentions
2024-11-03 The Five Aggregates 64:27
Tuere Sala
2024-11-04 Morning Reflections on Not-Self and Intention 58:02
Brian Lesage
2024-11-04 Teachings from the Metta Sutta - Part One 52:00
Greg Scharf
This is an updated version of a talk given in 2022
2024-11-05 Learning to Live with Uncertainty 40:07
Brian Lesage
2024-11-06 Morning Instructions: Undirected Attention/Open Awareness 64:54
Andrea Fella
2024-11-07 Five Aggregates Review and Exploring the Sense of Self 61:03
Andrea Fella
2024-11-08 Generosity 57:02
Jaya Rudgard
Dana and Caga: how the quality of generosity can be seen to underlie the whole of our practice
2024-11-09 Morning Reflections: Placing an Altruistic Intention 53:36
Brian Lesage
2024-11-09 One Who Sees Dependent Origination Sees the Dhamma 57:58
Marjolein Janssen
The 12 Links of Dependent Origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) form a map of suffering's arising and cessation. By recognizing the interdependent nature of all things, we see that nothing has inherent existence, including the self.
2024-11-10 Seven Factors of Awakening 60:54
Tuere Sala
2024-11-11 Teaching from the Metta Sutta - part 2 57:43
Greg Scharf
The second talk in series - reflections on teachings from the Karaniya Metta Sutta
2024-11-12 Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough 41:38
Brian Lesage
2024-11-14 Recognizing Delusion 59:52
Andrea Fella
2024-11-15 A well Spent Night 50:49
Jaya Rudgard
Reflections on presence, impermanence (anicca) and uncertainty.
2024-11-16 Mudita 57:39
Tuere Sala
Brief Reflections and Guided Practice
2024-11-17 The Four Noble Truths, Part 1 61:16
Tuere Sala
The first and second truths
2024-11-18 Teachings from the Metta Sutta - Part 3 58:05
Greg Scharf
2024-11-19 Intimacy and Sexual Energy 46:17
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
2024-11-21 Transcendent Dependent Arising 59:13
Andrea Fella
2024-11-22 The Five Recollections 51:40
Jaya Rudgard
Contemplating the five subjects for frequent recollection: aging, sickness, death, loss, and karma
2024-11-24 Morning Reflection: Interbeing and Categories Leak 10:55
Brian Lesage
2024-11-24 The Unfolding of Nibbana 60:07
Tuere Sala
2024-11-28 Reflections on Freedom 56:38
Andrea Fella
2024-11-29 Morning Reflection: Effort and Aspiration 11:02
Brian Lesage
2024-11-30 The Tonic of Wildness 50:36
Greg Scharf
An updated version of a talk given at the IMS Forest Refuge in August of 2024
2024-12-01 The Four Noble Truths, Part 2 60:31
Tuere Sala
The Eightfold Path
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