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Matthew Hepburn's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Matthew Hepburn
Matthew Hepburn caught fire with the Dharma through retreat practice in his early twenties. He began offering vipassana instruction in 2012 at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, where he is continually inspired by the deep Dharma of daily living. He is a participant in the 2017-2021 IMS Teacher Training Program.
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2024-08-19 Truthfulness and resolve – Parami 48:05
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-08-18 Guided Instructions: Feeling tone (Vedana) 47:41
with Matthew Hepburn, Narayan Helen Liebenson
Instructions for bringing the second foundation of mindfulness to secondary objects of attention. Day three of Retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-08-17 Guided instructions: loving-kindness (Metta) for self 48:18
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-08-23 Guided meditation, instructions: including everything in simplicity 36:06
Final day guided, mindfulness instructions. Fourth foundation. Six sense spheres. Traces awareness. Just this.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-08-22 Guided meditation: metta for difficult beings 45:42
If metta is taught to be practiced boundlessly, how can we expand our own hearts to that limitless capacity through our dharma training?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-08-21 Samadhi (concentration) is a factor of awakening. 48:17
Stories of samadhi in unlikely places, and a discussion of what factors we can influence, and what factors arise naturally, which support the development of samadhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-08-19 Metta (loving-kindness) guided instructions for self 38:25
A brief discussion of foundational understanding for the practice of meta-. Followed by guided phrases practice. Concluding with reflections on the dynamic nature of meta-for self: compassion, categories, and non-self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-08-18 Mindfulness and investigation, as factors of enlightenment. 49:43
A practical understanding how sati and dhammavicaya emerge as factors that lead toward awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-07-31 Guided instructions: metta for self and neutral person 40:48
Instructions for seeing beings (including) oneself as part of nature, while offering metta to self and the neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2023-07-30 Guided instructions: mindfulness of thoughts and thinking 39:36
When we're not mindful of them, thoughts have so much power over our lives. These instructions are intended to help lead the way to freedom from these fleeting mental phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

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