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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2025-09-25 Dependent Origination 64:37
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-23 Morning Instructions: Intention 62:47
Marjolein Janssen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-22 The Benefits of Walking Meditation 56:44
Marjolein Janssen
While walking meditation often receives less attention than sitting meditation, it offers numerous benefits worth exploring. In this talk, we will go into the 'Walking Meditation' sutta, where the Buddha outlines five benefits of this practice. We’ll conclude with a bonus benefit.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-22 Morning Instructions: Further Reflections on Noticing Feeling Tone 61:40
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-20 Guided Meditation: Metta (loving-kindness) for dear friend and neutral being 60:23
Marjolein Janssen
After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-19 Compassion: Letting Go, Laying Down the Armor 40:23
Devin Berry
This talk explores how compassion loosens striving, softens judgment, and reveals freedom. Through stories and practice reflections, we explore letting go, laying down the armor, and beginning again
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-19 Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts 60:20
Marjolein Janssen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-18 Untangle the Tangle 53:57
Andrea Fella
Exploring the tangle of dukkha, and how it is related both to the nature of experience as impermanent, unreliable and uncontrollable and to the deep wish for happiness, safety and ease.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-18 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 62:41
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-16 Morning Instructions: Meeting Sensations & Pain with Mindfulness 57:58
Devin Berry
This session offers a brief reflection and guided meditation on expanding awareness to include sensations throughout the body. With special attention to working wisely with pain, the instructions emphasize mindful presence, compassion, and skillful relationship to experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

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