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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2025-02-11 Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 60:23
Jean Esther
When we begin to see the arising and passing of thought as not me, not my, and not mine, there is room loosen the grip of grasping and aversion. We can begin to see thought truly as one of the six sense doors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 What Faith Means in our Practice and How it Can Support Us 44:19
Éowyn Ahlstrom
Faith Doesn't mean blind beliefs; rather it means growing confidence in the way things are, including our ability to practice well.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 46:21
Jean Esther
We expand or awareness of our interconnectedness as humans when we practice Metta for both the "Neutral Person" and the "Difficult Person". Sometimes the Difficult Person can be ourselves. The end of this Guided Practice offers a compassion practice for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 Meditating with Emotions 69:56
Chas DiCapua
How to relate to emotions in a way where we are neither pushing them away, or being lost in their content.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-09 Joy 37:51
Chas DiCapua
Understanding Worldly and Unworldly joy. How they are different and what each leads to.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-09 Lovingkindness Practice 44:11
Éowyn Ahlstrom
Reflections and Guided Practice on Lovingkindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-08 Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 1:46:10
Jean Esther
When we bring mindfulness and non-identification to difficult mind states such as the hindrances they become less of an obstacle and more of doorway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-03 3rd Foundation of mindfulness w guided 58:38
Vinny Ferraro
This talk explores our capacity to know the quality of awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-02-02 Exploring feeling tones along with some guidance 40:28
Vinny Ferraro
You may find this talk - pleasant, unpleasant or neutral
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-02-02 Morning instructions, hindrances and vedana 64:54
JoAnna Hardy
Short talk and 30 min. guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

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