Greg Scharf's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Greg Scharf  
 
    
        
                            
      Greg Scharf has practiced with Western and Asian teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1992, and has been teaching residential retreats since 2007. His teaching emphasizes the confluence of love and wisdom on the path to liberation. If you feel drawn to donate to Greg on this website, he says, "Please consider making a donation to Dharma Seed instead - Dharma Seed needs your support!"
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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            Select from Greg Scharf's
            159
            talks
    
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        2009-11-15
             Getting And Not Getting 
    
        2014-10-27
            An Independent Abiding 
    
        2015-10-11
            An Independent Abiding 
    
        2018-08-23
            Chanting 
    
        2012-04-18
            Curiosity, Impermanence and the Heart of Loving Kindness 
    
        2016-04-16
            Curiosity, mindfulness and letting go 
    
        2016-06-04
            Curiosity, refuge, and love 
    
        2008-11-22
            Dana - The Practice Of Generosity 
    
        2009-11-08
            Dana: Generosity As The Foundation Of Practice 
    
        2024-05-10
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2014-12-01
            Equanimity and Metta 
    
        2013-11-29
            Equanimity Reflection and Guided Meditation 
    
        2013-11-02
            Evening Chanting 
    
        2013-11-11
            Evening Chanting 
    
        2013-11-20
            Evening Chanting 
    
        2019-05-21
            Evening Chanting 
    
        2013-10-25
            Evening Metta Chanting 
    
        2013-11-05
            Evening Metta Chanting 
    
        2013-11-07
            Evening Metta Chanting 
    
        2013-10-31
            Evening Metta Chanting - 3 month course 
    
        2008-06-10
            Exploring The Universe Within 
    
        2012-11-03
            Faith
 
    
        2012-06-05
            Faith 
    
        2014-11-24
            Faith 
    
        2012-09-16
            Finding A Path With Heart 
    
        2014-11-03
            Finding A Path with Heart 
    
        2010-06-07
            Finding Our True Refuge - A Path With Heart 
    
        2015-09-13
            Finding Refuge 
    
        2014-05-26
            Finding True Happiness 
    
        2009-11-01
            Five Contemplations For Everyone 
    
        2011-11-09
            Five Subjects for Frequent Reflection 
    
        2017-11-06
            Five Subjects For Frequent Reflection 
    
        2009-06-04
            Generosity - an expression of loving kindness. 
    
        2008-06-12
            Generosity - Cultivating Inner Abundance 
    
        2009-10-26
            Giant Lizards and Exploding Stars - Mindfulness, Curiosity and Liberation 
    
        2017-11-27
            Great Joy The Ox 
    
        2015-10-18
            Greetings, Sisters and Brothers In Aging, Sickness and Death 
    
        2013-05-17
            Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2013-11-11
            Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2013-06-02
            Guided Meditation - Introduction To Compassion 
    
        2012-04-20
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2024-04-25
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2009-11-11
            Guided Metta Meditation - Neutral and Difficult Person 
    
        2013-05-28
            Guided Metta Meditation - Receiving From Benefactors 
    
        2022-04-15
            Guided Metta meditation. 
    
        2013-05-18
            Guided Mudita Meditation 
    
        2024-05-06
            Guided standing meditation 
    
        2023-04-16
            Guided, loving kindness, meditation 
    
        2021-11-11
            Inspiration On The Path 
    
        2013-05-17
            Introduction to Compassion
 
    
        2016-05-31
            Introduction to compassion and a guided meditation 
    
        2021-11-08
            Introduction to Compassion And A Guided Meditation 
    
        2017-11-08
            Introduction To Compassion and Guided Meditation 
    
        2013-05-18
            Introduction to Empathetic Joy (Mudita)
 
    
        2018-04-14
            Introduction to Metta Practice and Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-09-22
            Investigating the second Satipaṭṭhāna 
    
        2019-11-18
            Javana Hamsa - The Swift Swan 
    
        2016-11-28
            Javana Hamsa - the swift swan. 
    
        2014-11-17
            Karma
     
    
        2012-11-09
            Karma 
    
        2018-10-05
            Karma 
    
        2016-11-07
            Lessons from the Karaniya Metta Sutta – part one 
    
        2016-11-14
            Lessons from the Karaniya Metta Sutta – part two 
    
        2013-11-25
            Liberation Through Non-Clinging 
    
        2021-11-16
            Liberation Through Non-Clinging 
    
        2013-04-30
            Life Is A Practice - Practice Is A Life 
    
        2018-11-09
            Life Of The Buddha - The Heavenly Messengers 
    
        2011-12-01
            Love and Emptiness 
    
        2022-04-14
            Love and Freedom 
    
        2008-11-15
            Loving Kindness - Cultivating The Wholesome 
    
        2009-06-01
            Loving Kindness - Cultivating the Wholesome 
    
        2013-05-16
            Lovingkindness 
    
        2008-06-13
            Metta Chant with Yogis 
    
        2014-12-02
            Metta chanting by Greg Scharf and Kaira-Jewel Lingo 
    
        2009-06-08
            Mindfulness - Exploring The Universe Within 
    
        2018-09-14
            Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2012-09-23
            Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 
    
        2013-05-27
            Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 
    
        2018-09-22
            Morning Guided Meditation and Reflection 
    
        2018-10-31
            Morning Guided Meditation and Reflection. 
    
        2019-10-31
            Morning Instruction 
    
        2012-06-04
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2015-09-24
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2016-10-26
            Morning instructions 
    
        2016-05-30
            Morning instructions and guided meditation 
    
        2017-10-25
            Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2017-11-03
            Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-09-23
            Morning instructions and guided meditation 
    
        2023-09-19
            Morning Instructions and guided meditation 
    
        2016-06-04
            Morning instructions and guided meditation– Day eight 
    
        2018-09-16
            Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation. 
    
        2012-06-08
            Morning Instructions and Q&A 
    
        2013-10-27
            Morning Instructions and Q&A 
    
        2014-10-28
            Morning Instructions and Q&A 
    
        2013-05-27
            Morning Instructions and Reflection 
    
        2013-06-04
            Morning Instructions and Reflection 
    
        2016-10-31
            Morning instructions/guided meditation 
    
        2023-04-17
            Morning Reflection 
    
        2012-12-30
            Morning reflection and Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-11-14
            Morning Reflection And Meditation 
    
        2013-11-19
            Morning Reflection and Q&A 
    
        2013-01-05
            Morning Reflections 
    
        2011-06-06
            Opening To Dukkha and the Arising of Faith 
    
        2018-09-21
            Opening To Dukkha and the Arising Of Faith 
    
        2012-10-07
            Patience 
    
        2013-11-18
            Patience 
    
        2010-11-18
            Patience - The Art Of Caring Slowly 
    
        2018-04-18
            Patience and Forgiveness 
    
        2016-10-31
            Prince five weapons and the sticky haired monster 
    
        2019-11-25
            Reflections On Karma 
    
        2022-10-24
            Reflections On The Heavenly Messengers 
    
        2024-05-03
            Retreat Opening - reflections 
    
        2016-11-21
            Stories and poems from the Therigatha 
    
        2019-06-12
            Suffering And The End Of Suffering 
    
        2012-09-09
            Taking Refuge 
    
        2017-05-29
            Teaching From The Metta Sutta - Part 1 
    
        2018-10-19
            Teaching From The Metta Sutta - Part 2 
    
        2024-11-11
            Teaching from the Metta Sutta - part 2 
    
        2022-10-03
            Teachings From The Metta Sutta - Part 1 
    
        2022-10-13
            Teachings From The Metta Sutta - Part 2 
    
        2022-10-17
            Teachings From The Metta Sutta - Part 3 
    
        2024-11-18
            Teachings from the Metta Sutta - Part 3 
    
        2024-11-04
            Teachings from the Metta Sutta - Part One 
    
        2012-06-09
            The  Nature Of Insight 
    
        2015-10-04
            The Buddha's Teaching On Loving Kindness 
    
        2024-08-16
            The Confluence of Freedom and Love 
    
        2024-08-23
            The Confluence of Freedom and Love 
    
        2012-05-28
            The Confluence Of Love And Wisdom 
    
        2011-10-27
            The Direct Path 
    
        2008-11-29
            The First Buddhist Nuns 
    
        2009-11-14
            The First Buddhist Nuns 
    
        2013-11-04
            The First Buddhist Nuns 
    
        2010-05-31
            The Five Hindrances 
    
        2016-05-30
            The four Satipatthanas and mindfulness of the body 
    
        2018-10-25
            The Gentle Hand Of Friendship 
    
        2018-11-15
            The Parami Of Generosity 
    
        2014-11-10
            The Paramis - Generosity
    
    
        2015-09-27
            The Paramis and Forgiveness 
    
        2024-10-23
            The Path of Fearlessness & Joy 
    
        2018-11-29
            The Path Of Friendship 
    
        2023-09-14
            The path of renunciation 
    
        2018-08-21
            The Practice Of Forgiveness 
    
        2010-11-11
            The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 
    
        2012-09-30
            The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 
    
        2024-04-26
            The suffering that leads to the end of suffering 
    
        2017-10-26
            The Suffering That Leads To The End Of Suffering. 
    
        2024-11-30
            The Tonic of Wildness 
    
        2013-11-11
            The Working Of Karma 
    
        2012-12-31
            Turning Towards The Light - New Year Reflection 
    
        2024-04-28
            Two Metta 'Chants 
    
        2013-06-03
            Understanding Karma 
    
        2014-06-03
            Walking The Path 
    
        2015-09-20
            Walking The Path 
    
        2022-09-26
            Walking The Path 
    
        2024-08-09
            Walking the Path 
    
        2011-11-18
            What is insight? 
    
        2018-11-01
            What Is Insight? 
    
        2024-10-22
            Words of Encouragement 
    
        2017-10-30
            Working With The Hinderances 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        1998-02-01
            IMS Audio Files 
    
        2008-06-06
            Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2008-11-01
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2009-05-29
            Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat 
    
        2009-06-05
            Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2009-09-26
            Two-Month Retreat 
    
        2010-05-28
            Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat 
    
        2010-06-04
            Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2010-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        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   
    
        2012-05-25
            Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat 
    
        2012-06-01
            Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2012-09-08
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 1  
    
        2012-10-20
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 2  
    
        2012-12-28
            Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat  
    
        2013-04-26
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2013-05-15
            The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes  
    
        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
 
    
        2015-09-12
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2016-04-15
            Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2016-05-27
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat  
    
        2016-10-22
            Three-Month Part 2 
    
        2017-05-26
            Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2017-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2018-04-13
            Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2018-08-17
            Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2018-09-11
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2018-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2019-05-15
            Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2019-06-11
            Finding a True Refuge: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2021-10-29
            Second 3-Week Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-04-11
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-09-13
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2023-04-11
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom 
    
        2023-09-12
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2024-04-22
            Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat 
    
        2024-05-03
            Monastic Retreat 
    
        2024-08-06
            Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method 
    
        2024-08-15
            Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2024-08-23
            Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Weekend 
    
        2024-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2