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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2025-03-24 The Power and Freedom of Equanimity in Polarized Times 60:11
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk we explore the power of equanimity to help us remain steady and spacious in the face of life's ups and downs. Trusting, relaxing and letting go all help us to see we don't have to hold the challenges of life alone, we can open to the larger mystery holding us all. We also look at how to engage with the suffering and injustice of our world, to practice sacred criticism, and depolarizing ourselves and our communities. We take inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement and their practices of self-emptying and how we can give our whole hearts to the task and then let go of attachment to the outcome. Kaira Jewel ends by singing the poem Recommendation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Mara's Teaching Us to Love More Deeply 36:23
Yong Oh
Talking about the paradox of perfection and improvement. Loving ourselves to wholeness. Love as the path. Mara as teacher rather than foe or antagonist. Teaching us to love ever more deeply.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-12 Closing Day Talk 1:44:03
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-09 Steady recognition of awareness untangles confusion 51:28
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-08 Morning Reflection 51:11
Carol Wilson
Reflections on being awake and trusting awareness, yet learning not to strive or try to create awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Liberating Simplicity of Awareness 46:22
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Introductory Instructions to "When Awareness Becomes Natural" 65:18
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-02 Embracing Our Lives Through The 4 Noble Truths 49:35
Jean Esther
This talk invites the listener to reflect upon the application of the Buddhas teachings on the 4 noble truths on and off the cushion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-03-02 Meeting The Body With Loving Attention 30:30
Jean Esther
This is a Guided body scan meditation infused with metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-02-27 Loving Letting Go: Metta and Letting it All Be 46:16
Yong Oh
Renunciation and Refuge - Metta and the path of letting be, of loving. Our ground of liberation is love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

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