Dharma Insight | Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC) is a charitable organization located in central Virginia that offers a full range of Buddhist insight (Vipassana) meditation retreats, courses, and weekly dharma talks. Insight meditation practices have been taught for more than 2500 years as part of a path to liberation of mind and heart from suffering. These practices are dedicated to cultivating awareness, kindness and compassion to help bring more mindfulness and calm into our daily life. IMCC is delighted to share these recent dharma (teaching) talks from our regular and guest teachers. More details can be found at: http://imeditation.org
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United States
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Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC) is a charitable organization located in central Virginia that offers a full range of Buddhist insight (Vipassana) meditation retreats, courses, and weekly dharma talks. Insight meditation practices have been taught for more than 2500 years as part of a path to liberation of mind and heart from suffering. These practices are dedicated to cultivating awareness, kindness and compassion to help bring more mindfulness and calm into our daily life. IMCC is delighted to share these recent dharma (teaching) talks from our regular and guest teachers. More details can be found at: http://imeditation.org
Language:
English
Episodes
Mindful of Race, Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
3/19/2019
Ruth King shares that “Racism is a heart disease, and it’s curable.” In this talk she shares insights from her new book, Mindful of Race, and her approach of blending mindfulness principles and meditation with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:02:42:20
Peace and Restoration Beneath The Turbulence
11/20/2018
Pat Coffey shares that the Buddha offered a path and practices for his students to learn how to navigate and settle peacefully in relationship to the vicissitudes of life. All of us are subject to what he called the 8 Worldly Winds. They are gain, loss, status, disgrace, censure, praise, pleasure and pain. Most people spend their entire lives buffeted by the turbulence of these ‘winds’, never knowing the deep peace and restoration possible by learning how to work skillfully with these...
Duration:01:39:43
Why Truth-Telling Still (and Always) Matters
11/13/2018
Susan Stone shares that at a time when truth is a frequent hostage to those with the loudest or angriest voices, our insight tradition teaches truth-telling as a practice. The practice includes, but reaches beyond, the statement of facts. It involves consciously aligning with and embodying our deepest truths and values. Following a guided meditation, Susan Stone will explore how truth-telling is a sane and compassionate practice that leads us onward on our spiritual journey. This session is...
Duration:01:26:54
The Value of Added Dimensions
10/30/2018
Jeanne van Gemert shares how the added dimensions of the Buddhist teaching expand our perspective and provide richness to our path. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:01:08:05
Good in the Beginning, Middle, and End
10/2/2018
Susan Stone shares that the Buddha said his Dharma (teaching) is "good in the beginning, good in the middle and good in the end." Following a guided meditation, Susan will offer overview observations about the Buddha's graduated teaching. Grounded in the wisdom of loving, skillful and ethical approaches in daily life, the teaching expands to the mystery of formlessness. It is a transformative, lifetime journey, and it welcomes us at every stage. All is good. For more information, please...
Duration:01:20:47
Establishing and Enhancing Your Practice to Transform Your Life
9/25/2018
Pat Coffey shares that every spiritual path worth it's salt has elements of practice. Real transformation requires this. There is no end-run around practicing. In a real sense, any skill you have learned..... you have earned. As humans, we are naturally inclined to move away from anything challenging and toward pleasure. That is how we roll. Given that, establishing a transformative spiritual practice is significantly supported by finding ways to bring elements of pleasantness into practice....
Duration:01:41:35
Live in Love, in Joy, Even Among Those Who Hate
9/4/2018
Susan Stone shares in this talk: in this fraught world, it is helpful to remember the Buddha's teaching of living in joy and love even among those who hate. When we look deeply into the teachings, we realize the way to do this requires us not only to cultivate lovingkindness and compassion, but to move into difficult territory that we almost instinctively resist—namely, our resistance to the inherent pain of Life. Following a guided meditation, Susan will offer a talk that explores the...
Duration:01:45:22
Dwelling Places for the Mind and Heart
8/28/2018
Sharon Beckman-Brindley shares that in the Mahanama Sutta, the Buddha teaches us how to cultivate the mind so that it becomes a fertile ground for true, deep and lasting awakening from the trance of suffering. In this talk, we will together explore his instruction to Mahanama, investigating the ways that this teaching offers practical encouragement and guidance with the mind's modern confusions and dilemmas. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of...
Duration:01:20:10
Massaging Your Perspective: The Road to Happiness
8/21/2018
Pat Coffey explores the view or perspective of how this creation operates will determine your level of happiness or suffering. If your view is a Wise View, a view aligned with nature you will suffer less and enjoy greater happiness. It is just that simple. The Buddha has declared that a Wise View is both the beginning and end of the contemplative path. Without the arising of even a tepid perspective that a contemplative practice might hold some benefit for you there is no further...
Duration:01:28:55
Being a Buddha
8/7/2018
IMCC is pleased to welcome guest teacher, Caverly Morgan. She is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Peace in Schools and Presence Collective. She trained for eight years in a silent monastery and now teaches meditation through retreats, workshops, and online courses nationally and internationally. Peace in Schools has created the first, for credit mindfulness class for public High Schools and also offers mindfulness trainings for adults. For more information, please visit the Insight...
Duration:01:53:24
Brahma Viharas: Series Conclusion, Assessments and the Way Forward
7/3/2018
This is the final in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Sharon Beckman-Brindley, Susan Stone, Jeff Fracher, Teresa Miller, and Helen Farrar lead a discussion of the Brahma Viharas series. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville...
Duration:01:32:21
Brahma Viharas: Equanimity - Part II
6/26/2018
This is the 9th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Susan Stone leads group practice and contemplation of Equanimity. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:01:13:04
Everything is Workable. Really.
6/19/2018
Sharon Beckman-Brindley explores how our practice can help us to work with relational or systemic conflicts and difficulties that may arise. You are invited to bring to mind a conflict or difficulty that is causing you some stress and that, at times, may seem unworkable - or rather, that seems to require something or someone outside of your own mind to change. We will offer guidance on some of the many ways that the Buddha invites us to work with these inevitable life challenges. For more...
Duration:01:41:39
Brahma Viharas: Equanimity - Part I
6/12/2018
Sharon Beckman-Brindley presents this 8th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Equanimity is a middle path inviting deep presence with all of life. This fourth of the Brahma Viharas invites us to see with wisdom what is here, both internally and externally. Cultivating equanimity, we practice...
Duration:01:33:11
Notes on the Brahma Viharas
6/5/2018
In this talk, Teresa Miller highlights key aspects of the Brahma Viharas and how they are inter-related. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:01:02:45
Brahma Viharas: Sympathetic Joy - Part II
5/22/2018
This is the 7th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Helen Farrar lead group practice and contemplation of Sympathetic Joy. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:00:25:49
Bringing Relaxation, Joy and Ease to Your Practice
5/15/2018
Guided meditation and dharma talk by Pat Coffey. Various meditation forms are designed to enhance the strength of the parasympathetic nervous system -- the aspect of your nervous system that supports relaxation, joy and ease. The Buddha taught greater than four dozen meditation techniques. In this guided meditation and dharma talk Pat Coffey teaches several powerful methods that support the cultivation of greater tranquility. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation...
Duration:02:42:00
Brahma Viharas: Sympathetic Joy - Part I
5/9/2018
This is the 6th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Susan Stone presents an overview of Sympathetic Joy. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:01:25:34
Brahma Viharas: Compassion - Part II
4/24/2018
This is the 5th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Jeff Fracher presents several practices that focus on buildling compassion. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:00:55:03
Brahma Viharas: Compassion - Part I
4/10/2018
This is the 4th in a ten-part series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. In this talk Teresa Miller presents a closer look at compasion. For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
Duration:01:19:59