Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

Description:

IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.

Language:

English

Website:

https://www.dharma.org/

Episodes

Devon Hase: Tattoos on the Heart

3/30/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories from Father Gregory Boyle, reflections on love

Duration:00:17:57

Devon Hase: Untangling the Tangle: On Dependent Co-Arising and Freedom

3/29/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination, including chanting and stories. Description of how we get off the chain, dukkha and the end of dukkha.

Duration:00:49:06

Devon Hase: To Be a Person

3/29/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Introduction to paticcasamuppada and Jane Hirshfield's reflection on the human condition.

Duration:00:12:11

Devon Hase: Like a Flower in the Sky

3/28/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on emptiness and the unfabricated.

Duration:00:13:57

Devon Hase: Counting, This Morning, What Powers Still Remain to Me

3/22/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Homage to Jane Hirshfield and reflections on how the path grows our equanimity, and also our humanity

Duration:00:12:19

Devon Hase: Equanimity is a Superpower

3/21/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How equanimity helps us navigate life in retreat and in the world

Duration:00:56:13

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone

3/19/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Duration:00:13:48

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone

3/18/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Duration:00:14:03

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on craving

3/12/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Duration:00:09:35

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning reflection on craving

3/11/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Duration:00:09:43

Devon Hase: Miguel's Dignity

3/9/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reading from Father Gregory Boyle's "Tattoos on the Heart." Learning our own loveliness.

Duration:00:07:02

Devon Hase: Karaniya Metta Sutta

3/8/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English

Duration:00:11:51

Devon Hase: More Reflections on Beauty

3/8/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.

Duration:00:12:02

Devon Hase: Live Wire of Authenticity

3/7/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.

Duration:00:50:16

Devon Hase: Effortless Effort

3/3/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.

Duration:00:14:42

Devon Hase: Three Honorings

3/2/2024

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.

Duration:00:47:42