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Devon Hase's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Devon Hase
devon hase has practiced intensively in the insight and vajrayana traditions since discovering meditation in 2000. After a decade of bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms, she entered several years of silent, solitary retreat in the mountains of Oregon. She now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Forest Refuge, and serves as co-guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. Devon supports practitioners in both long and short retreats, as well as through personal mentoring, with an emphasis on relational practice and connection to the natural world. Along with her life partner, nico, she co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess and the forthcoming This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership (2026). Learn more at devonandnicohase.com.
2023-08-20 On Bumpy Roads and Muddy Trails: reflections on tranquility 48:06
Stories and dhamma on the awakening factor of Passaddhi (calm, peace, tranquility)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-03-14 Practicing in daily life 51:05
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness and Wisdom
2023-03-12 Reminders about working with difficulty and mindfulness of thinking 45:45
Morning reflection on dukkha, and how to be skillful with thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness and Wisdom
2023-03-10 Right attitude 47:44
How we re-wild our hearts with balanced observation – not rejecting, or pushing our practice. So much is possible, when we allow ourselves to be just as we are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness and Wisdom
2023-02-01 Working with emotions 34:57
Teaching on wise effort, and a guided meditation on working skillfully with emotions. Edited
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2023-01-31 The Four Noble truths 50:28
Explanation of the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta with chanting, followed by teachings on the four noble truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2023-01-31 Qi Gong - 18 Movements 44:38
Warm-up and Shibashi 18-movement session of Qi Gong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2023-01-29 First morning Instructions and cell phone ceremony 40:18
with Devin Berry, Devon Hase
Edited
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2022-08-23 Mindfulness of thoughts 34:14
Short teaching and guided meditation on mindfulness of thoughts and thinking.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-08-22 Metta for a friend 39:23
Guided Meditation on metta for a friend with receiving practice at the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

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