Kamala Masters's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Kamala Masters  
         
         
     
     
 
    
        
                            
      It has long been important for me to offer the purity of the teachings of the Buddha in a way that connects with our common sense and compassion as human beings, which allows for the natural blossoming of wisdom.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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            166
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        2025-08-05
            1st Day Morning Instructions - Breath 
    
        1997-02-13
            3 Pillars Of The Dharma 
    
        2025-08-09
            5th Day Morning Instructions 
    
        1998-11-23
            A Teaching From A Tear Drop 
    
        1996-10-03
            AM Instructions 
    
        2006-11-06
            Attachment 
    
        1994-07-08
            Attachment, Aversion And Restlessness 
    
        2004-12-02
            Awakening "We Got What It Takes" 
    
        1997-10-03
            Balance 
    
        2002-12-06
            Coming Home To Ourselves 
    
        2004-02-18
            Compassion 
    
        2013-08-04
            Compassion - Divine Respect 
    
        2019-05-07
            Compassion - The Inter-relationship of our inner and outer life. 
    
        1999-02-28
            Compassion And Wisdom 
    
        2000-11-07
            Compassion Practice Instructions 
    
        2015-09-23
            Contemplations On Compassion 
    
        2017-08-12
            Contemplations on equanimity 
    
        1999-07-27
            Courageous Love 
    
        2003-11-27
            Dana - The First Of The 3 Pillars Of The Dhamma 
    
        2004-02-20
            Developing A Generous Heart 
    
        1995-07-28
            Dissolving Into Life 
    
        2019-05-12
            End Of Retreat Dana Talk 
    
        2009-08-11
            Equaminity Practice Instructions 
    
        2007-08-07
            Equanimity 
    
        1998-12-07
            Equanimity - Being In Peace With The Wild 
    
        2011-08-10
            Equanimity - Guided Meditation 
    
        2011-08-11
            Equanimity - Guided Meditation 
    
        2011-08-12
            Equanimity - Guided Meditation 
    
        2006-10-30
            Equanimity - Resting The Mind Before It Falls Into Extremes 
    
        2009-08-12
            Equanimity and the Five Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2007-08-10
            Equanimity Instructions - Day 4 
    
        2007-08-09
            Equanimity Instructions - Day Three 
    
        2007-08-07
            Equanimity Instructions Day One 
    
        2007-08-08
            Equanimity Instructions Day Two 
    
        2017-05-08
            Equanimity on the cushion and in the world.  
    
        2008-08-12
            Equanimity Practice - part 2 of 4 
    
        2008-08-13
            Equanimity Practice - part 3 of 4 
    
        2008-08-14
            Equanimity Practice - part 4 of 4 
    
        2009-08-13
            Equanimity Practice Instructions 
    
        2009-08-14
            Equanimity Practice Instructions 
    
        2001-02-08
            Equanimity, Ii 
    
        2007-08-05
            Faith 
    
        2015-08-10
            Faith 
    
        2015-09-15
            Faith 
    
        2019-05-10
            Faith 
    
        2023-08-06
            Faith in our potential for transformation 
    
        2019-06-20
            First Day Morning Instructions, Precepts and Taking Refuge 
    
        2017-05-03
            First Morning Instructions 
    
        2017-05-04
            Five Spiritual FAculties 
    
        2017-08-07
            Five Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2025-08-07
            Five Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2007-08-11
            Fulfillment Of Dharma Happiness 
    
        1998-11-09
            Generosity And Gratitude 
    
        2004-11-25
            Generosity And Gratitude 
    
        2003-11-27
            Generosity, the 1st Pillar of the Dharma 
    
        2001-11-06
            Guided Compassion 
    
        2010-08-12
            Guided Equanimity  - Day 4 
    
        2010-08-10
            Guided Equanimity Practice - 1st day 
    
        2011-08-13
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2010-08-06
            Guided Meditation and Introduction 
    
        2012-08-07
            Guided Meta 
    
        2012-08-09
            Guided Metta 
    
        2015-10-07
            Guided Metta 
    
        2019-05-09
            Guided Metta - Going through Self, Benefactor, Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Per… 
    
        2012-08-05
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2017-05-06
            Guided Metta Meditation  - Oneself, Benefactor Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Dif… 
    
        2010-08-11
            Guided Practice - Day 2 
    
        2010-08-13
            Guided Practice Day 5 - Neutral Person 
    
        2025-08-05
            Guided Sitting - Review Morning Instructions, Including Working with Sleepiness 
    
        2006-11-13
            Happiness 
    
        2011-08-07
            Inner Beauty 
    
        2010-08-09
            Instructions Day 3 
    
        2010-08-12
            Instructions Day 6 
    
        2008-08-11
            Introduction To The Brahma Vihara Practice Of Equanimity - part 1 of 4 
    
        1997-06-11
            Investigation 
    
        2006-04-18
            Lovingkindness 
    
        1996-11-03
            Meditation Instructions 
    
        2022-08-10
            Meditation instructions 
    
        2022-08-06
            Meditation Instructions 
    
        2023-08-10
            Meditation instructions/sitting 
    
        1997-10-20
            Metta 
    
        2000-11-12
            Metta 
    
        2023-08-09
            Metta - Guidance 
    
        2017-08-06
            Metta - Guided Meditation 
    
        2004-02-15
            Metta Guidance:  Self Benefactor And Dear Friend 
    
        2017-05-03
            Metta Guided Meditation 
    
        2011-08-08
            Metta Instructions 
    
        2013-08-07
            Metta Instructions - Day 4 
    
        2011-08-09
            Metta Instructions Continued 
    
        2007-08-06
            Metta Instructions Forgivemess Day Two 
    
        2007-08-05
            Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor And Friend 
    
        2010-08-09
            Metta Meditation Guidance 
    
        2025-08-08
            Metta Meditation Instructions 
    
        2023-08-07
            Metta Practice 
    
        2009-08-10
            Metta Practice - Introduction 
    
        2022-08-10
            Metta Practice Instructions 
    
        1999-07-17
            Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances 
    
        2000-11-06
            Mindfulness 
    
        2006-07-28
            Mindfulness And Wisdom 
    
        2008-08-10
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2008-08-12
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2009-08-08
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2009-08-11
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2009-08-13
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2015-09-26
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2017-08-08
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2011-08-08
            Morning Instructions  #3 
    
        2007-08-04
            Morning Instructions - First Day 
    
        2013-08-05
            Morning Instructions - Third Day 
    
        2007-08-06
            Morning Instructions / Q&A Monday 8-6-07 
    
        2012-08-07
            Morning Instructions Day #4 
    
        2012-08-10
            Morning Instructions Day #7 
    
        2007-08-08
            Morning Instructions with Q&A 
    
        2009-08-08
            Morning Sitting Instructions 
    
        2006-10-13
            Opening Five Weeks Intensive 
    
        1994-07-06
            Opening To The First Noble Truths 
    
        2011-08-12
            Path To Wisdom Is Paved With Compassion 
    
        2006-04-15
            Patience 
    
        2019-06-21
            POC Retreat - Compassion and Wisdom 
    
        2013-02-13
            Practical Wisdom for Everyday Mindfulness 
    
        2015-08-15
            Q&A 
    
        2008-08-15
            Renunciation And Paramis 
    
        2022-08-08
            Review of meditation instructions 
    
        2004-02-15
            Satipatthana 
    
        2008-08-12
            Seeing The World With Quiet Eyes 
    
        2010-08-11
            Seeing The World With Quiet Eyes 
    
        2025-08-12
            Seeing The World With Quiet Eyes 
    
        2012-08-06
            Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 
    
        2000-12-04
            Sila--The Cultivation Of Virtue 
    
        2015-10-20
            Sure Heart's Release - Part 3 : Bhavana 
    
        1998-11-30
            Sympathetic Joy - Mudita 
    
        2012-08-11
            Taking The Practice Home and Q&A 
    
        1997-12-05
            Ten Beautiful Qualities-Paramis 
    
        2006-04-24
            Tenderness And Reality 
    
        2008-08-08
            The Art Of Equanimity And Insight 
    
        2009-08-10
            The Balanced Spacious Heart of Equanimity 
    
        2015-08-15
            The Dharma Understanding of Dana and Q&A 
    
        2006-10-23
            The Ecology Of Compassion 
    
        2015-08-13
            The Ecology Of Compassion 
    
        2006-10-16
            The Five Hindrances 
    
        2022-08-07
            The five spiritual powers -  leading to Insight 
    
        2005-11-10
            The Four Qualities Of A Superior Person 
    
        2001-12-06
            The Great Web 
    
        2002-11-28
            The Highest Blessing 
    
        2015-09-29
            The Infinity Of Impermanence 
    
        2008-08-09
            The Landscape Of Compassion 
    
        2007-08-09
            The Landscape Of Compassion: The Inter-Relationship Of Our Inner And Outer Life 
    
        2012-08-10
            The Long Range View Of Practice 
    
        2006-07-30
            The Parami Of Generosity 
    
        2005-12-07
            The Practice Of Generosity 
    
        2002-11-22
            The River Of Change 
    
        2012-08-08
            The River Of Life / The River Of Change 
    
        2005-11-17
            The Seven Factors Of Awakening 
    
        2001-11-29
            The Sure Heart's Release 
    
        2015-10-13
            The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1  - Dana 
    
        2015-10-17
            The Sure Heart's Release (Part 2) - The Two Guardians Of the World 
    
        2023-08-11
            The two wings of the Dharma: compassion and wisdom 
    
        2004-12-09
            The Union Of Compassion And Wisdom 
    
        2001-02-10
            The Wisdom Of Mindfulness 
    
        2009-08-14
            Three Pillars of the Dharma (1 and 2) 
    
        1992-06-17
            Trust 
    
        1997-11-02
            Trust & Courage 
    
        1998-11-16
            Trust And Courage 
    
        2022-08-12
            Two guardians of the world - Hiri and Ottappa 
    
        2011-08-10
            Understanding Equanimity  
    
        1996-11-11
            Working With Wholesome States Of Mind & Heart 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Kamala Masters's 40 retreats
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        1994-07-08
            "9 Day Retreat for ""Experienced"" Students" 
    
        1995-07-21
            9 Day Vipassana Retreat 
    
        1996-09-22
            1996 Three Month Retreat 
    
        1997-02-07
            Metta Retreat (7 days) 
    
        1997-06-07
            Vipassana Retreat  (10 days) 
    
        1997-09-20
            1997 Three Month Retreat 
    
        1998-02-01
            IMS Audio Files 
    
        1998-09-23
            1998 Three Month Retreat 
    
        1999-02-26
            Insight Meditation and the Heart (3 days) 
    
        1999-07-16
            Vipassana Retreat (9 days) 
    
        2000-09-20
            2000 Three Month Retreat 
    
        2001-02-02
            Metta Retreat 
    
        2001-02-09
            Vipassana Retreat 
    
        2001-11-02
            Three Month Retreat Part 2 
    
        2002-11-01
            Three Month Retreat Part 2 
    
        2003-10-31
            Three Month Retreat Part 2 
    
        2004-02-13
            Vipassana Retreat 
    
        2004-11-05
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2005-11-04
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2006-04-14
            Parami & Concentration Retreat 
    
        2006-04-21
            Vipassana Retreat 
    
        2006-07-27
            People of Color Retreat 
    
        2006-10-13
            Vipassana Intensive 
    
        2007-08-03
            The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2008-08-08
            Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Weekend Retreat  
    
        2008-08-11
            Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2009-08-07
            Insight and the Art of Equanimity 
    
        2010-08-06
            Insight and the Art of Equanimity 
    
        2011-08-05
            Insight and the Art of Equanimity 
    
        2012-08-03
            Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2013-08-02
            Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2015-08-07
            Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-09-12
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2017-05-02
            The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat 
    
        2017-08-04
            Awareness, Insight and Liberation 
    
        2019-05-05
            The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat 
    
        2019-06-18
            People of Color Retreat 
    
        2022-08-05
            Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation 
    
        2023-08-04
            The Sure Heart's Release 
    
        2025-08-04
            The Sure Heart's Release: Insight and Metta Retreat – 25MKM