Pascal Auclair's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Pascal Auclair  
 
    
        
                            
      Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. His depth of insight, classical training, and creative expression all combine in a wise and compassionate presence. In addition, his warmth and humour make Pascal a much appreciated teacher.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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            Select from Pascal Auclair's
            132
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        2024-12-20
            2 Kinds of Wisdom 
    
        2009-11-12
            6 1/2 Awakening Factors 
    
        2007-03-24
            7 Little Sayings Can Go A Long Way 
    
        2012-01-02
            A Few Metta Stories - and a guided meditation.  
    
        2012-11-19
            A Few More Steps On The  Eight  Fold Path (part 2) 
    
        2016-01-12
            A little Bonfire Of Compassion 
    
        2018-09-08
            Appearances as Dis-appearances 
    
        2018-09-06
            Awareness Of Body and Emotions 
    
        2025-08-30
            Being With Body, Being With Mind 
    
        2022-09-03
            Being with the difficult 
    
        2021-09-18
            Belonging to Earth; Being Earth, Wind and Fire 
    
        2023-12-16
            Body and mind, that is the whole world 
    
        2016-01-11
            Can Joy & Sorrow Live Together? 
    
        2023-12-15
            Candid and curious 
    
        2014-01-03
            Carefully Extracting Freedom From The Rich Soil Of Experience.  
    
        2025-09-04
            Chanting and practicing Metta 
    
        2016-01-07
            Closing Talk and Q&A and Dedication 
    
        2015-02-16
            Closing Talk Of The Retreat 
    
        2016-01-05
            Compassion and Joy - A Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-09-18
            Counteracting Internalized Hatred With Benevolence 
    
        2018-09-01
            Displeasure As A Doorway 
    
        2008-10-25
            Earth, Wind, And Fire (And Water!) 
    
        2019-12-17
            Emotional Stability 
    
        2017-09-02
            Emotions, emotions, emotions :) 
    
        2010-04-23
            Equanimity and Insight 
    
        2024-09-07
            Fabrications of Mind – a Refuge? 
    
        2022-12-09
            Falling into the heart of humanity 
    
        2007-10-20
            Feeling Tone 
    
        2017-09-02
            First Morning Instructions 
    
        2014-02-07
            First morning instructions on metta and guided meditation 
    
        2009-11-05
            Five Aggregates 
    
        2009-10-29
            Five Hindrances 
    
        2012-01-03
            Five Rivers Running Through - The Five Aggregates 
    
        2012-11-12
            Five Steps On The Eight Fold Path 
    
        2012-11-05
            Four Attachments 
    
        2024-09-01
            Four objects worthy of your attention 
    
        2011-08-02
            Four Ways We Get Too Tight 
    
        2025-08-31
            Free From Delusion, Free To Engage! 
    
        2024-12-18
            Freedom From the Known 
    
        2022-09-09
            Freedom from thoughts 
    
        2014-01-01
            Guided compassion and Loving Kindness Meditation 
    
        2015-09-06
            Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2022-12-10
            Guided equanimity. 
    
        2015-02-15
            Guided Forgiveness and Gratitude 
    
        2015-02-14
            Guided Meditation - Compassion 
    
        2016-01-10
            Guided Meditation - Creating A Field Of Friendliness 
    
        2019-12-16
            Guided Meditation - Love As Renunciation 
    
        2012-07-29
            Guided Metta (good will) meditation 
    
        2010-04-23
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2018-09-05
            How Dharma practice unfolds 
    
        2016-01-01
            How Letting Go Happens 
    
        2016-12-20
            How practice developed in this queer body. 
    
        2018-06-19
            How To Practice Meditation 
    
        2025-09-05
            How Wisdom Leads To Love 
    
        2022-09-04
            Humbly and patiently discovering wisdom. 
    
        2022-09-07
            In the domain of mindfulness. 
    
        2014-09-04
            In This Fathom Long Body With Its Mind and Perceptions 
    
        2018-09-02
            Instructions On Emotions And Moods. 
    
        2014-01-05
            Instructions on Intentions
 
    
        2012-10-29
            Instructions On Intentions and Q&A 
    
        2016-12-19
            Instructions on working with emotions, moods and mind states 
    
        2014-09-05
            Introduction On Bring Awareness To Mind States and Guided Meditation 
    
        2016-01-09
            Introduction talk, first night of the retreat 
    
        2013-09-01
            It's Only Natural! 
    
        2016-01-13
            Joy On The Path 
    
        2017-12-16
            Kindness 
    
        2025-09-06
            Last Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2016-01-04
            Layers Of Wisdom 
    
        2024-09-06
            Lessening suffering 
    
        2024-12-19
            Letting Go of Obstacles to Love 
    
        2017-09-08
            Loving The Body 
    
        2021-09-05
            Meditation & Talk 
    
        2016-01-06
            Meditation Instructions - Intentions 
    
        2014-08-30
            Metta - Friendliness 
    
        2023-12-16
            Metta as renunciation 
    
        2008-10-14
            Metta For All (No One Excluded) 
    
        2016-01-02
            Metta Practice 
    
        2011-08-01
            Metta Practice And Stories 
    
        2018-06-20
            Metta With A Twist 
    
        2022-12-11
            Mindfulness is highly relational 
    
        2010-04-21
            Mindfulness Is It! 
    
        2025-09-04
            Mindfulness of Emotions: A Journey Back Home 
    
        2012-07-26
            Mindfulness on how to be sensitive. 
    
        2024-08-31
            Mindfulness: the power of taking care 
    
        2024-08-31
            Mindfulness: the rules of the game 
    
        2012-10-24
            Morning Instruction - Body, Mind-states and Q&A 
    
        2013-12-30
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2016-01-10
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2012-01-04
            Morning Instructions - Five Aggregates 
    
        2019-12-16
            Morning Instructions - What If There Were Only Four Ways 
    
        2012-09-02
            Morning Instructions on Dealing With Emotions and Q&A 
    
        2014-01-02
            Morning Instructions On Practicing with Thoughts and Guided Meditation 
    
        2016-01-03
            Morning Meditation Instructions - Receptivity 
    
        2016-01-12
            Morning Meditation Instructions On Concentration 
    
        2013-12-31
            New Year's Eve Talk - From Conventional Reality to Ultimate Reality 
    
        2024-12-19
            NO SAMES 
    
        2023-12-17
            Not the objects, it's nature 
    
        2025-09-06
            Nourished When Encountering Pleasure. Resourced When Facing Displeasure 
    
        2017-09-06
            On Being 
    
        2017-09-07
            On Being - Part 2 
    
        2014-08-30
            Opening Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2018-06-18
            Opening Night Of Retreat 
    
        2015-09-04
            Opening Night Welcome Talk 
    
        2018-06-20
            Practice Reflections: The Dream Is Free, The Hustle is Sold Separately. 
    
        2016-12-19
            Q&A 
    
        2016-12-21
            Q&A 
    
        2018-09-06
            Reflections on Metta. 
    
        2024-09-05
            Relating to strong emotions 
    
        2022-09-08
            Releasing you from my expectations 
    
        2008-09-27
            Seven Ways To Hack Your Brain 
    
        2013-08-31
            Some Ways This Practice Works 
    
        2025-08-31
            Specific and Universal Characteristics of Existence 
    
        2012-11-27
            Speech - Wise And Not So Wise 
    
        2024-09-04
            Starting from scratch 
    
        2022-12-10
            Taking the middle path with mind states 
    
        2017-12-17
            Tender Balance - Courageous Vulnerability 
    
        2022-09-09
            The monkey and the three questions 
    
        2008-10-04
            The Noble 8 Fold Path 
    
        2018-09-02
            The Poignancy Of Ephemerality. 
    
        2018-06-19
            The Way Of Wisdom Emerges 
    
        2018-09-08
            The Winds of Pleasure  and Of Pain 
    
        2021-09-19
            There Must Be an Other Way 
    
        2017-09-03
            Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts  :) 
    
        2022-12-12
            Three questions that mindfulness answers 
    
        2008-10-11
            Vivid, Vibrant Vedana 
    
        2012-10-22
            What Are We Doing Here 
    
        2022-09-04
            What is freedom? 
    
        2019-12-15
            What We Attend To And How 
    
        2012-09-01
            Why Would You Sit Like This For A Whole Weekend? 
    
        2014-08-31
            Wisely Attending To Your Nose and Other Things 
    
        2015-09-05
            Words On Practice 
    
        2016-12-21
            Words on the qualities of the heart and a guided reflection 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Pascal Auclair's 37 retreats
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        2007-03-18
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2007-09-20
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2008-09-20
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2009-09-26
            Two-Month Retreat 
    
        2010-04-20
            The Power of Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2011-07-27
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2011-12-28
            Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat 
    
        2012-07-25
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds  
    
        2012-08-31
            Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2012-10-20
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 2  
    
        2013-08-30
            Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2013-12-28
            Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat  
    
        2014-08-29
            Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
 
    
        2014-09-02
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
 
    
        2015-02-12
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2015-09-04
            Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend  
    
        2015-12-29
            Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat 
    
        2016-01-09
            Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2016-12-18
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community  
    
        2017-09-01
            Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2017-09-05
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community 
    
        2017-12-15
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat  
    
        2018-06-18
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2018-08-31
            Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2018-09-04
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community 
    
        2019-12-13
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2021-09-03
            Discovering Freedom: Online Weekend 
    
        2021-09-17
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community 
    
        2022-09-02
            Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2022-09-06
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community 
    
        2022-12-08
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2023-12-14
            Heartfelt Wisdom 
    
        2024-08-30
            Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend 
    
        2024-09-03
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community 
    
        2024-12-17
            Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2025-08-29
            Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend – 25WLD 
    
        2025-09-02
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25…