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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2025-10-02 The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight 63:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-30 Morning Reflections: Purity and Purification 64:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 The Four Great Efforts: PACE Yourself on the Path 58:31
Marjolein Janssen
Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-26 Morning Questions and Reflections 63:54
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

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

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