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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2025-02-25 Beyond Control, Within Our Hands: The Power of Compassion & Equanimity. 42:06
Oren Jay Sofer
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How do we meet suffering—our own and the world’s—without being overwhelmed? Compassion invites us to turn toward pain with an open heart and respond, while equanimity offers balance and perspective. The two work together, allowing us to engage wholeheartedly, without attachment to outcomes, responding with wisdom and care in the face of uncertainty, loss, and change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-24 Metta, Safety, Protection, Care 39:36
Yong Oh
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Exploration of Metta and our relationship to safety, protection and care.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-23 Morning Instructions: Metta Practice + Guided Meditation for Benefactor 59:58
Oren Jay Sofer
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This talk introduces formal instructions for metta practice in the traditional form of phrases and categories. After sharing about the spirit and principles behind the practice, we engage in a guided meditation first receiving metta from a benefactor, then offering metta to a benefactor, and finally offering metta to oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-22 The Transformative Power of Metta 52:44
Oren Jay Sofer
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This talk explores core questions of lovingkindness practice: What is "metta"? What is its relevance in our lives and our world? How does it function to transform our hearts and world? And how do we strengthen metta?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-17 Essential Teachings: 7 Factors of Awakening 56:39
Jeanne Corrigal
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An exploration of the 7 Factors with an emphasis on joy and awakening through non-clinging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times - 25ED

2025-02-12 The 8 Fold Path as a Practice for Living our Lives 54:44
Jean Esther
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A General Over View of the 8 fold Path with particular emphasis on Ethical Conduct (Sila) in relation to others in our world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-12 Loving Kindness Practice 35:26
Chas DiCapua
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Using the directional method for spreading Loving Kindness outwards.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-11 Three Characteristics 51:55
Chas DiCapua
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Descriptions of the three characteristics and the role they play in the Buddha's path to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-11 Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 60:23
Jean Esther
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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
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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

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