Podcasts by Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awareness and compassion.
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Jill Shepherd: Celebrating the Parami from 2023-12-03T19:23:27
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A view of the ten Parami and how they've been cultivated during this retreat
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Brian Lesage: Listening to the Voice of Another with Wise Attention from 2023-12-02T19:22:46
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Tuere Sala: Taking the practice home from 2023-12-01T19:23:34
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Rebecca Bradshaw: The joy of giving from 2023-11-30T19:24:52
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Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection from 2023-11-30T08:07:19
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What do you need to release? Accessing your "inner Wyoming"
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Rebecca Bradshaw: Equanimity, Brahma Vihara from 2023-11-28T15:21:24
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction and guided meditation, using the first three Brahma Viharas to establish connection, and equanimity to encourage letting go
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Transforming oneself, transforming the world and universe from 2023-11-27T19:21:41
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The practice of the Noble eight fold path can transform oneself in the world around us
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Jill Shepherd: Effortless effort from 2023-11-26T19:23:26
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring refined effort at this stage of the retreat, include some ways to practice with Anatta, how self constructing creates stress
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Jill Shepherd: Morning reflection from 2023-11-26T08:08:44
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Check in with body, heart in mind, notice the attitude to experience
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Brian Lesage: morning reflection: the best season of your life – (recording starts about four minutes from the beginning) from 2023-11-25T08:09:44
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Brian Lesage: Introduction and guided meditation on equanimity from 2023-11-24T15:23:07
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Brian Lesage: Dharma Practice As Offering from 2023-11-23T19:22:06
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of six senses and ten fetters from 2023-11-22T08:04:06
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the six senses, and removing the fetters can lead to various stages of enlightenment
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DaRa Williams: Forgiveness and gratitude: touching into the heart from 2023-11-21T19:22:57
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Jill Shepherd: Brahmavihara Practice: Mudita from 2023-11-21T15:20:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some short reflections on Muditā, then a guided meditation cultivating appreciative joy for oneself and an "easy being"
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Sitting Without Instuctions from 2023-11-20T19:19:43
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Jill Shepherd: Working with anxiety and other afflictive states from 2023-11-19T19:25:10
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some suggestions for navigating difficult mental states
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Brian Lesage: Opening to beauty from 2023-11-18T19:29:36
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores opening to beauty through the seven factors of awaking and appreciating own goodness
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Meditation on appreciative joy - Mudita from 2023-11-18T15:29:05
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing appreciative joy towards oneself and sentient beings, can overcome env, jealousy, aversion and lead to peace and happiness
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Rebecca Bradshaw: Aversion from 2023-11-17T19:24:42
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discusses techniques to use with aversion, including feeling tone
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Tuere Sala: Morning reflections and silent sit. from 2023-11-17T08:14:07
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Tuere Sala: The Conditionality of Nibbana from 2023-11-16T19:28:14
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Q&A session from 2023-11-16T08:19:31
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Questions about dealing with boredom/sloth and tupor. If there is no self in what is reborn
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DaRa Williams: Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace from 2023-11-14T19:26:22
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Arriving home through the practice of equanimity
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Bhante Buddharakkhita: Liberation through non-clinging from 2023-11-13T19:19:49
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging can lead to freedom from clinging and letting go of conceit and wrong view
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Greg Scharf: Guided Metta meditation. from 2022-04-15T19:01:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Radiating metta to all beings.
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Rebecca Bradshaw: The three characteristics teach us to let go. from 2022-04-15T16:17:36
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Roxanne Dault: Guided Metta meditation from 2022-04-14T19:02:50
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Opening to self, a good friend, and a neutral being
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Greg Scharf: Love and Freedom from 2022-04-14T16:23:02
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Rebecca Bradshaw: Metta for self and easy people. from 2022-04-13T19:00:10
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction plus a guided meta meditation
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Rebecca Bradshaw: Intimacy with all things. from 2022-04-12T16:16:33
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Commentary on Dogen's statement: "awakening is intimacy with all things"
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Roxanne Dault: Opening to emotions. from 2022-04-09T16:01:35
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions about mindfulness of emotions and difficult mind states.
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Nicola Redfern: Introduction of insight dialogue guidelines. Atune to emergence. from 2022-03-24T13:43:44
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation with the guidelines "attune to emergence"
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Nicola Redfern: Introduction of the Insight dialogue guidelines "Open" from 2022-03-23T13:33:12
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A guided meditation and two contemplations
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Erin Treat: Path, acceptance, descent, and return: Story of Inanna from 2022-03-13T19:31:17
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Matthew Brensilver: Love and its relation with wisdom. from 2022-03-07T19:30:18
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Erin Treat: Compassion and the three kinds of suffering. from 2022-03-06T19:30:51
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Matthew Brensilver: Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth from 2022-03-06T16:13:53
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DaRa Williams: Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana from 2022-03-06T08:16:35
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pain a body and emotions is a part of opening. Understanding the importance and usefulness of including Vedana in practice
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Erin Treat: Guided compassion meditation from 2022-03-05T16:14:58
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Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk from 2022-03-05T08:15:48
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Matthew Brensilver: Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present from 2022-03-04T19:31:01
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DaRa Williams: Loving-kindness instruction – day two from 2022-03-04T16:16:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Circle of benefactors
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Erin Treat: Morning instructions – anchors from 2022-03-04T08:16:37
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Erin Treat: Mindfulness as a path of happiness from 2022-03-03T19:29:55
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Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta practice from 2022-03-03T16:15:56
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The alternatives to love, hate or apathy, are not visible
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Oren Jay Sofer: Revealing the Clear Mind from 2022-02-13T20:37:20
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of how the path cultivates clarity of mind, through mindfulness and knowing the obscurations.
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Bart van Melik: Sudden awakening, gradual cultivation from 2022-02-09T19:16:52
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Bart van Melik: Cultivation Of Compassion from 2022-02-08T15:02:22
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Bart van Melik: Keep calmly knowing change from 2022-02-08T08:16:47
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation on impermanence
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Bart van Melik: Befriending difficult emotions from 2022-02-07T19:15:54
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nakawe cuebas: Compassion from 2022-02-07T15:03:22
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How can I help? Quan Yin energy with meditation phrases
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Bart van Melik: Creative with kindness from 2022-02-06T15:01:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions to connect with kindness
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nakawe cuebas: Wisdom of the body from 2022-02-05T19:17:09
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of the body as Refuge
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Bart van Melik, Devin Berry, nakawe cuebas: Opening Talk from 2022-02-04T19:27:22
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding the way home to natural awareness
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Kristina Bare: Metta for self, easy being, neutral being, and difficult being from 2022-01-31T15:01:21
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Tara Mulay: Day two morning instructions were thinking and emotions from 2022-01-31T08:16:07
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Tara Mulay: Practicing with the hindrances and understanding Dukkha. from 2022-01-30T19:16
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with the hindrances as an aspect of the fourth foundation of mindfulness.
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Kristina Bare: Metta and compassion for self. from 2022-01-30T15:01:28
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When Metta meets suffering it naturally transforms into compassion
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Bonnie Duran: Scanning the body for feeling Tone. from 2022-01-30T08:15:29
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on Vedana.
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Bonnie Duran: Reflections to realize in permanence. from 2022-01-29T19:16:36
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk discusses the body and feeling tone reflections that help realize impermanence.
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Jean Esther: Loving kindness practice with the "neutral person" from 2021-12-04T14:16:21
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description of the importance of working with a neutral person and strengthening the capacity of non-discriminating loving kindness. Includes a guided ...
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Jean Esther: Why Practice? Setting in motion the wheel of truth. from 2021-12-03T08:16:05
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An elaboration of the third of the Four Noble Truths
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Jean Esther: Metta Practice For Self from 2021-12-02T14:15:41
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided metta practice for working with the self, including ways to work with difficulty with oneself as the object.
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Jean Esther: Introduction to Metta practice from 2021-12-01T14:14:32
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short description of metta as an antidote to ill will followed by a guided practice with a focus on a benefactor or easy person
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Dawn Scott: Compassion and Compassionate action from 2021-11-17T19:30:19
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores meditative compassion and its relationship to compassionate action.
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Greg Scharf: Liberation Through Non-Clinging from 2021-11-16T19:28:55
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Five Aggregates
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Susie Harrington: Introduction and Guided Meditation: Equanimity from 2021-11-15T15:30:04
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Brian Lesage: Reflections On Death And Birth That Support Presense from 2021-11-14T19:29:50
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Greg Scharf: Morning Reflection And Meditation from 2021-11-14T08:15
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A short reflection of mindfulness of mind - the third establishment of mindfulness
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Susie Harrington: Guided Meditation; Unentangled Knowing from 2021-11-13T08:16:35
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recommended for times when the mind is settled and willing to explore the subtler process of mind.
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Tuere Sala: The Villapas: The Four Distortions Of Mind. from 2021-11-12T19:29:54
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When we access tranquility or calm abiding, we can see the distortions of mind with clear knowing and discernment.
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Greg Scharf: Inspiration On The Path from 2021-11-11T19:30:11
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Tuere Sala: The Gift Of Borrowing Joy from 2021-11-11T15:32:49
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Brian Lesage: Navigating Difficulty Within Our Meditation from 2021-11-11T08:16:46
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Joseph Goldstein: Questions and Responses from 2021-11-10T19:30:17
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Matthew Hepburn: Anicca: Practical Impermanence for Retreat Yogis from 2021-11-08T19:30:28
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Impermanence as a lofty concept is a cause fro mental proliferation. Impermanence as a way to perceive every moment is the end of suffering.
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Greg Scharf: Introduction to Compassion And A Guided Meditation from 2021-11-08T15:30:03
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A short introduction to compassion as a Brahma Vihara, followed by a guided meditation - Receiving compassion from benefactors and dear friends.
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Susie Harrington: Navigating The River With ease and Energy from 2021-11-07T19:30:40
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Energy and wise effort on the path of practice
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Susie Harrington: Morning Instructions and Reflection from 2021-11-07T08:16:58
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Deeping samadhi - hints, and suggestions
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Brian Lesage: Beauty And The Seven Factors Of Awakening from 2021-11-06T19:31:01
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Pascal Auclair: There Must Be an Other Way from 2021-09-19T16:00
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Pascal Auclair: Counteracting Internalized Hatred With Benevolence from 2021-09-18T19:00
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How, as LGBTQAI2S+, can Metta help us heal from internalized homophobia? A few words and a guided meditation
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Pascal Auclair: Belonging to Earth; Being Earth, Wind and Fire from 2021-09-18T10:00
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 1st morning instructions and guided meditation
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Pascal Auclair: Meditation & Talk from 2021-09-05T15:42
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Rodney Smith: Exploring Meditation as a Gateway to Transcendent Awareness, Part2 from 2021-08-24T13:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) There is a direct line through mindfulness to formless awareness. Simply release the “self” associated with mindfulness and awareness reveals itself in...
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Rodney Smith: Exploring Meditation as a Gateway to Transcendent Awareness, Part 1 from 2021-08-22T13:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the beginning instructions reveals both the fullness of a “self, trying,” and the emptiness of a “self, in surrender.” Our world view changes...
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 30 2021 from 2021-04-30T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating Calm
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 29 2021 from 2021-04-29T09:30
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Jessica Morey: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 28 2021 from 2021-04-28T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sympathetic Joy
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Tara Mulay: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 27 2021 from 2021-04-27T09:30
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Tara Mulay: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 26 2021 from 2021-04-26T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The 5 Daily Reflections
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Bruni Dávila: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 23 2021 from 2021-04-23T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Kind Curiosity
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Bruni Dávila: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 22 2021 from 2021-04-22T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Just like Buddha...
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Jessica Morey: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 21 2021 from 2021-04-21T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Karuna
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 20 2021 from 2021-04-20T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dedicating our Practice
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 19 2021 from 2021-04-19T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation as Generosity
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Tara Mulay: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 16 2021 from 2021-04-16T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Non-identification
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Walt Opie: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 15 2021 from 2021-04-15T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting Impermanence with Kindness
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Jessica Morey: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 14 2021 from 2021-04-14T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 13 2021 from 2021-04-13T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Letting Go
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 12 2021 from 2021-04-12T09:30
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Roxanne Dault: 12 Closing Talk from 2021-04-06T19:00
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 2 2021 from 2021-04-02T09:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Anatta/Not Self
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Guy and Sally Armstrong: Questions & Answers, Day 3 from 2021-03-03T15:00
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Guy and Sally Armstrong: Q&A, Day 2: How to do a self-retreat at home and online from 2021-03-02T15:00
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 31 2020 from 2020-12-31T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 30 2020 from 2020-12-30T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing in Daily Life
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 29 2020 from 2020-12-29T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness in Real-time
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 28 2020 from 2020-12-28T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Four Indispensable Meditative Skills
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 25 2020 from 2020-12-25T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Contemplating Impermanence, Part 3
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 24 2020 from 2020-12-24T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Theme: Joy
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 23 2020 from 2020-12-23T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Contemplating Impermanence, Part 2
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 21 2020 from 2020-12-21T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Contemplating Impermanence, Part 1
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 18 2020 from 2020-12-18T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 3
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 17 2020 from 2020-12-17T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stillness within the Storm, Part 1
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 16 2020 from 2020-12-16T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 2
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 15 2020 from 2020-12-15T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the Dharma in Nature
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Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 14 2020 from 2020-12-14T10:30
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 11 2020 from 2020-12-11T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the Dharma in Nature
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 10 2020 from 2020-12-10T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the Dharma in Nature
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 9 2020 from 2020-12-09T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the Dharma in Nature
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Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 8 2020 from 2020-12-08T10:30
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering the Dharma in Nature
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