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Winnie Nazarko's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Winnie Nazarko
Our potential as humans is vast and deep, and can be intentionally developed. There is a way that we can learn to open to all of our experience with kindness and clarity. As we begin to find this stability of heart and mind, wisdom will emerge.This emergence of wisdom, and strengthening of compassion, are the road to our individual and collective happiness and well-being.
2023-05-28 Upekkha - equanimity 59:42
This talk discusses what equanimity is, and the role it plays in liberating the mind through wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Present Moment
2023-05-24 Wise Effort (Sammaviriya) 61:16
What "wise effort" is, how it fits into the eightfold path, and what characterizes it. The road, Sati (mindfulness) plays in supporting wholesome states, and undercutting the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Present Moment
2023-05-13 The through line of the eightfold path. 61:58
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening
2022-11-28 Forgiveness 50:22
In meditation practice, particular places of hurt me arise repeatedly. These places may be is by mindful reflection on the theme of forgiveness and the wisdom of letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-11-14 Deep roots of compassion 44:09
This talk reflects on the deep causes and conditions for what arises in our individual experience. This view supports an understanding of "not self" and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-11-07 Thoughts and meditation 55:22
Is thinking/thought inside or outside of meditation practices? This talk explores how to consider thought, and how do use it to wake up
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-10-28 Morning Meditation Instructions 46:25
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-10-26 Compass of the heart 51:05
This talk discusses wise intention, the second step on the eightfold path, and why it is essential to liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-08-06 Walking meditation instructions 28:44
Introductory walking instructions at a Mahasi Vipassana retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation
2022-07-24 Suttas and Life 57:28
This talk matches key suttas is related to samadhi development and to poems and stories of people trying to apply these teachings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat

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