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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2026-06-19 What Keeps Us From Knowing We Are Free 44:57
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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In this talk, Aishah Shahidah Simmons explores the Buddha's teaching on the Five Hindrances — Sensual Desire, Ill Will, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness and Worry, and Doubt — drawing on the Saṅgārava Sutta's water similes, the lineage of Sayagyi U Bha Kin through Rev. Dr. Leon E. Wright, and the words of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde. Offered through a BIPOC lens on Juneteenth, this teaching invites recognizing the hindrances with tenderness, not self-judgment, as a lifetime's practice toward liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Steady Refuge: Annual BIPOC Retreat - 26BIPOC

2026-06-18 Mountains are Moving In: Dhamma Chanda 38:13
Yong Oh
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What we do matters. Practice matters. Let what we care about and long for lead the way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Steady Refuge: Annual BIPOC Retreat - 26BIPOC

2026-06-14 Samvega - Morning reflexion from Sayadaw U Vivekananda for the 2-week retreat 27:02
Sayadaw Vivekananda
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Much appreciation to Sayadaw U Vivekananda that offered a short teaching on the last morning of the Two-week retreat at IMS.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Natural Clarity of Awareness: A Two-Week Insight Meditation Retreat - 26WMRT

2026-06-05 Mindfulness of Emotions and Mind-States 54:45
Tara Mulay
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Includes instructions on 6-Part walking meditation at the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Natural Clarity of Awareness: A Two-Week Insight Meditation Retreat - 26WMRT

2026-05-26 Some Benefits of Continuity of Awareness 50:17
Carol Wilson
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Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Refuge In Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat - 26GS

2026-05-25 Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness 49:16
Carol Wilson
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Refuge In Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat - 26GS

2026-05-23 Mindfulness Gone To The Body 48:20
Greg Scharf
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An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Refuge In Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat - 26GS

2026-05-19 Four dimensions of contemplative practice. 63:07
Akincano Marc Weber
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Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner: (i) Calming & stabilzing (ii) Dis-identification and decentering (iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation (iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 26AMW

2026-05-19 Open awareness and awareness of awareness 51:51
Yuka Nakamura
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Morning instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 26AMW

2026-05-17 Morning Reflection: Cittānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhāna Channels Guided exercise on practicing with citta states. 49:49
Akincano Marc Weber
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Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience. Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories. Relationship between these channels. Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice. Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods. The ending of something as an easy connection point to citta-states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 26AMW

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