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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2019-04-18 Life Saving Sanctuary 25:31
Ayya Medhanandi
Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to activate that awareness, and to treasure kindness and goodness in our daily actions and speech? Can wholesome states of mind prevail even when we face difficult or painful conditions? Moral purity is the harbinger for our waking up to the Truth within us. As we hasten to empty and weed out self-centredness, the poison arrow of craving is extracted. This is freedom – this is life-saving sanctuary.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-18 Life Saving Sanctuary 25:31
Ayya Medhanandi
Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to know and bring to life that awareness, to treasure goodness in our daily acts and words of kindness as well as in wholesome states of mind - even where conditions are not so conducive to that? Let us empty ourselves of self-centredness to embody more and more the realization of the Truth within us. Let us guard the mind against the hindrances and pull out the poison arrow of craving. What freedom! We shall brighten the mind and lift up our hearts. This is life-saving sanctuary.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-17 The Winds of Change 33:02
Ayya Medhanandi
We are on a mountain with a tremendous view. Let the breath speak to us. Stay present and watch, both the joy and the suffering. Investigate wisely and patiently like a parent whose child may object or run away. We try to see the breath clearly, with mindfulness that is like the sun upon a flower. Attentive and receptive, timeless, and still, we gently soften and mellow – just knowing, observing, and selflessly giving the mind back to pure presence. To trust the breath is to let go moment by moment, discovering its hidden truths – our true home here and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-09 Balancing Effort In Practice 58:00
Rebecca Bradshaw
Avoiding the extremes of too little. effort or striving. Metta as an antidote
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2019-04-08 Mind-Heart - Body Fullness 58:19
Erin Treat
Wholehearted practice, all we have is the present moment, mindfulness as intimacy with life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2019-04-06 Closing 52:05
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-05 Kwan Yin Choral Chant - IMS Woman's Retreat 10:34
Rachel Lewis
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-04 Painting Our World 45:14
Christina Feldman
A reflection on the fabrication of personal expression.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-04 Mindfulness Of The Contemplation Of Mind 44:22
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-02 Reflection on the Satipatthana 48:01
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

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