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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2025-04-20 Choiceless Attention Guided Meditation 61:41
Rebecca Bradshaw
Intro and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-19 Equanimity Brahmavihara 47:28
Rebecca Bradshaw
Exploration of Equanimity Brahmavihara and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-18 Mudita: Brief Intro and guided. 46:43
Roxanne Dault
Practicing with mudita for an ease being and joy for self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-17 Walking on this path with faith and courage. 43:10
Roxanne Dault
Inviting faith and wise effort to inspire our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-17 Instructions - Body Sensations and Emotions 58:45
Rebecca Bradshaw
Instructions and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-16 Guided Metta for Self 45:10
Roxanne Dault
Inviting this warmth in meeting all that we are and cultivating kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-12 Steadying The Heart 45:03
Rebecca Bradshaw
Finding a home base to steady our heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Grounding the Heart in Kindness-Infused Awareness: Insight and Lovingkindness Weekend Retreat – 25WRB

2025-04-12 The Graceful Heart 60:34
Rebecca Bradshaw
Learning to live life graceful poise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Grounding the Heart in Kindness-Infused Awareness: Insight and Lovingkindness Weekend Retreat – 25WRB

2025-04-08 Bodhicitta - For the welfare of all 53:22
Yuka Nakamura
Bodhicitta—the mind of awakening—is the aspiration to attain awakening for the benefit of all. Seeing our practice in this light can be a source of inspiration and counteract the tendency to self-centeredness. The talk discusses the historical development of the concept and explains what it means.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Where the heart gets stuck - upādāna and the consequences 69:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Upādāna in different Buddhist Teachings: – Clinging as fuel for renewed becoming (punabbhava) – Clinging in the 5 aggregates (khandha) – Clinging in Dependent Arising (paṭiccasamuppadā) – Clinging as four specific forms: (i) kāmūpādāna – clinging to and identification with sensuality (“Seeking” experiences) (ii) diṭṭhūpādāna – clinging to and identification with views (“Being right, being competent“) (iii) sīlavaṭūpādāna – clinging to and identification with virtue, practices and ritual (“Having the right technique“) (iv) attavādūpādāna – clinging to and identification with doctrines of a self / Self (“Being someone”)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

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