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Rebecca Bradshaw's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Rebecca Bradshaw
Rebecca Bradshaw, author of Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart, has practiced vipassana and metta meditation since 1983 in both the United States and Burma. A Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, she has been teaching since 1993. "My passion is encouraging students to drop into embodied presence, and grounding this presence in wisdom and lovingkindness. When a sense of love and kindness underlies our practice, we can explore life deeply in a truly integrated way, bringing together mind, heart, and body. Wisdom then holds it all in spaciousness. I especially enjoy connecting with young people in the Dharma and teaching students on longer retreats." For more information about Rebecca and/or to make a donation to support her teaching, visit her website at www.rebeccabradshaw.org.
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1998-01-01
Meditación De La Respiración
1998-01-01
Meditación Del Amor Bondadoso
2017-06-05
A Different Understanding Of Self
2004-08-15
Acceptance And Action
2007-10-12
Afflictive Emotions
2005-10-21
Anicca
2011-05-29
Assumptions About Love
2023-11-17
Aversion
2008-09-26
Balanced Effort
2013-04-27
Balanced Effort
2019-04-09
Balancing Effort In Practice
2017-04-26
Becoming Human.
2012-04-19
Being With Emotions With Kind Heartness Awareness.
2012-11-02
Boredom
2022-11-25
Boredom and being ordinary
2018-11-16
Boredom and ordinariness.
2013-11-25
Brahmaviharas - equanimity
2025-04-20
Choiceless Attention Guided Meditation
2014-11-14
Clinging and Non Clinging At the Six Sense Doors
2008-06-04
Compassion
2023-11-09
Craving
2011-11-04
Craving - Tanha - Second Noble Truth
2015-11-20
Deeply Conditioned Patterns Of Perfectionism
2019-11-22
Delusion: The Root Of Suffering
2018-11-30
Developing the graceful heart.
2019-07-27
Developing The Steady, Graceful and Confident Heart
2007-03-22
Drive Through That Town
2009-11-06
Dukka - Three Kinds Of Suffering
2005-10-07
Dukkha
2024-04-24
Effort as intentionality, perseverance, and surrender
2016-10-28
Energizing Factor of awakening.
2025-04-19
Equanimity Brahmavihara
2023-11-28
Equanimity, Brahma Vihara
2001-06-09
Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness
2022-11-04
Exploring feeling tone
2018-11-23
Exploring not-self in our own practice.
2023-04-16
Feeling tone - guided meditation
2017-06-01
Finding Our Steady and Graceful Heart.
2005-06-07
Forgiveness And Joy
2018-07-29
Four Faces Of Compassion
2018-04-17
Four Faces Of Compassion: Mary Tara, Kwan Yin, and Tinkerbell
2018-07-26
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness
2006-07-01
Four Kinds Of Happiness
2011-06-09
Four Noble Truths
2026-04-17
Four Noble Truths
2013-11-22
Generosity
2010-11-05
Gratification - Danger and Escape
2010-11-19
Gratitude and Generosity
2015-05-31
Guided Equanimity Brahmavihara
2022-12-01
Guided Equinimity Brahmavihara
2019-12-22
Guided Meditation - Metta and the Four Brahma Viharas
2018-07-28
Guided Metta
2023-04-14
Guided Metta - Mercy
2018-11-05
Guided Standing Meditation
2001-10-28
Happiness And The Greatest Happiness
2002-06-22
Happiness And The Obstacles To Happiness
2009-06-10
Happiness of Equanimity
2024-04-27
Healthy protections for the heart
2008-06-11
Impermanence And Equanimity
2022-10-27
Instruction – anchoring
2023-10-29
Instruction – thoughts
2026-04-15
Instruction and Guided Meditation Body Sensations
2025-04-17
Instructions - Body Sensations and Emotions
2022-08-01
Instructions and introduction: feeling tone (vedana)
2022-04-12
Intimacy with all things.
2014-10-28
Introduction To Brahma Vihara Practice and Guided Meditation
2012-10-30
Introduction to Compassion Meditation
2018-10-25
Introduction To Metta Meditation.
2010-02-01
Karmic Knots
2019-11-08
Karmic Knots - 5 Stages
2013-11-08
Knowing your Buddhist personality type can help you practice
2013-11-14
Living In Delusion. Living In Truth
2011-06-02
Living With Metta, Dana and Sila Practice
2016-11-18
Mana: the conceit of I am better then, less than, equal too.
2013-10-29
Meditation Instructions - Emotions
2008-06-12
Metta
2007-10-05
Metta
2007-09-25
Metta - Guided Meditation
2012-04-21
Metta - Neutral and Difficult Person
2012-07-02
Metta - self and easy people - teen retreat
2014-11-07
Metta and Compassion in our Vipassana Practice
2008-06-01
Metta And Its Challenges; Exploration Of The Classic "Hindrances" In Relationsh…
2022-04-13
Metta for self and easy people.
2026-04-16
Metta General Info plus Neutral Person
2019-10-26
Metta Instruction - Self and Easy Person
2015-05-25
Metta Instructions for Self and Easy Person
2012-04-19
Metta Meditation Introduction. Guided Meditation
2022-07-31
Metta: Difficult Person
2007-09-28
Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances
2007-09-28
Mindful Awareness of the Five Hindrances
2016-07-29
Mindful awareness of thoughts and emotions
2010-10-24
Mindfulness
2023-04-12
Mindfulness
2013-10-25
Mindfulness and Investigation
2015-07-24
Mindfulness and Metta With the Hindrances
2010-06-06
Mindfulness Of The Body
2012-07-01
Mindfulness Of Thought And Emotion
2016-06-06
Mine development, ethics, and giving
2013-05-30
Morning Instruction - Mindfulness of emotion
2012-06-03
Morning Instructions
2016-10-29
Morning instructions
2026-04-18
Morning Instructions
2014-10-27
Morning Instructions - Anchor
2018-10-30
Morning Instructions - Emotions
2018-04-18
Morning Instructions - Thoughts
2019-10-29
Morning Instructions - Thoughts
2024-04-25
Morning instructions – emotions
2019-11-22
Morning Q&A
2023-11-30
Morning reflection
2023-04-15
Non-identification and pain
2015-04-14
Opening Talk
2003-06-17
Opening The Heart Of Compassion
2006-10-06
Paramis On Retreat
2014-11-28
Paramis On Retreat
2012-06-04
Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions
2011-11-15
Questions and Answers
2001-06-23
Questions We May Ask
2019-07-28
Receiving Metta for oneself and sharing it with an easy person
2008-06-07
Relaxation, Curiosity And Mindfulness
2015-11-12
Sankhara Dukkha
2019-11-15
Sankhara Dukkha
2022-11-18
Saṅkhāra Dukkha and vulnerability
2022-10-28
Sense-based reality and relaxing the cognitive grip
2015-11-27
Sila Makes Everybody Happy
2005-09-30
Skillful Effort
2014-05-25
Spiritual Idealism, Dukkha and Compassion
2025-04-12
Steadying The Heart
2019-11-28
Thanksgiving Day Reflection
2019-11-29
The Four Brahmaviharas or Heavenly Abidings
2001-06-14
The Four Noble Truths
2006-09-22
The Four Noble Truths (75% Of Them)
2025-04-12
The Graceful Heart
2007-10-19
The Gratification, The Danger And The Escape
2012-11-08
The Greatest Disappointment... Or Anicca and Letting Go.
2006-08-15
The Happpiness Of The Brahmaviharas
2024-08-01
The heart that can let go.
2022-07-29
The hindrances as protectors
2023-11-30
The joy of giving
2000-06-24
The Red Pill Or The Blue Pill?
2009-06-03
The Responsive Heart
2022-04-15
The three characteristics teach us to let go.
2014-10-31
Thought Based and Sense Based Reality
2009-07-30
Trusting Our Own Experience To Teach Us
2003-07-06
Untangling the Tangle
2015-05-28
Viparinama Dukkha
2019-11-01
Viparinama Dukkha
2013-11-29
Wise Speech
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Select one of Rebecca Bradshaw's 56 retreats
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1997-12-28
New Year's Retreat (10 days)
1998-02-01
IMS Audio Files
2004-08-13
Youth Retreat
2005-09-23
Three Month Retreat - Part 1
2006-06-30
Teen Retreat
2006-08-11
Vipassana Retreat for Ages 18 to 32
2006-09-15
Metta & Vipassana Intensive
2006-09-15
Vipassana Intensive Part 1A
2007-03-18
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2007-09-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2008-05-30
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2008-06-06
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-09-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2009-05-29
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2009-06-05
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-09-26
Two-Month Retreat
2010-06-04
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-05-27
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2011-06-03
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2012-04-17
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-06-30
Teen Retreat
2012-10-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2013-04-26
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-05-24
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2013-10-22
Three Month - Part 2
2014-05-23
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2014-10-25
Three Month - Part 2
2015-04-14
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-05-22
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2015-07-22
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2015-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2016-05-27
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2016-07-27
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2016-10-22
Three-Month Part 2
2017-04-25
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-05-26
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2018-04-13
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2018-07-25
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-04-07
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2019-07-24
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2019-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-12-20
Winter Solstice Insight Meditation Weekend
2022-04-11
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2022-07-27
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2022-10-25
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-04-11
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom
2023-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2024-04-22
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2024-07-28
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2025-04-11
Grounding the Heart in Kindness-Infused Awareness: Insight and Lovingkindness W…
2025-04-14
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - …
2026-04-13
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - …
