Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction

243 episodes

Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness
25/05/2026 | 49 mins.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Gone To The Body
23/05/2026 | 48 mins.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness
Akincano Marc Weber: Four dimensions of contemplative practice.
19/05/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner:
(i) Calming & stabilzing
(ii) Dis-identification and decentering
(iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation
(iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal
Yuka Nakamura: Open awareness and awareness of awareness
19/05/2026 | 51 mins.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: Cittānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhāna Channels Guided exercise on practicing with citta states.
17/05/2026 | 49 mins.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience.
Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories.
Relationship between these channels.
Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice.
Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods.

The ending of something as an easy connection point to citta-states.

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About 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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