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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2009-06-01 Loving Kindness - Cultivating the Wholesome 59:24
Greg Scharf
Begins with the history of the Karaniya Metta Sutta, followed by a description of qualities and characteristics of loving kindness; and the benefits of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2009-05-17 Mindfulness of Body 56:39
Dori Langevin
The life of the body is a tether to moment to moment experience. Cultivating an enlarged awareness, infused with kindness, plus directly contacting sensations, allows us to be with unpleasant sensations we often call "pain"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-05-08 Fruition of Practice 59:13
Yanai Postelnik
To deeply know that we are not defined by any experience or activity is to realize freedom. To recognize that we are not separate from the world is to discover compassion as our very nature. This is the fruit of true practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Relaxed Openness: Embodying Presence

2009-05-06 The Art of Unknowing. 57:28
Yanai Postelnik
The true meaning of life derives from what is revealed when we have the courage to adbide in unknowing. Not depending on the illusiory security of certainties we can relax into the vast open potential of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Relaxed Openness: Embodying Presence

2009-05-04 Meeting the Challenges 61:46
Yanai Postelnik
Working with recognizing challenging faces of mind as visitors which obscures the deeper truth, we can free our self from their grip, reveling the natural pure radiance of the heart-mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Relaxed Openness: Embodying Presence

2009-05-03 Supporting Mindfullness 59:39
Myoshin Kelley
Looking to the natural quality of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Relaxed Openness: Embodying Presence

2009-05-01 Caring for Others and Ourselves 10:52
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2009-04-18 Life of the Buddha, Mindfulness. 58:07
Madeline Klyne
Life story of the Buddha. Mindfulness in everyday life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Weekend for New Students

2009-04-17 Opening Talk 66:01
Michael Grady
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Weekend for New Students

2009-04-14 What Needs To Be Done: Wise Action and Karma 56:27
Sharda Rogell
Our actions through speech and body have powerful consequences. We can choose whether they are wholesome or unwholesome. How can we strengthen the goodness while diminishing suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

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