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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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- 5 days ago47 min
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation
- 6 days ago48 min
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt 1. Hiri and Ottappa: The Guardians of the World and our Morality
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) shame. fear of wrongdoing. clear knowing. reality. being protected and guided by the energies of shame and fear of wrongdoing. knowing the first (1st) and second (2nd) arrows.
- 1 weeks ago47 min
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Metta with / for / from self, easeful and neutral beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) practicing to feel what neutral feels like in the body; how metta with / for / from a neutral being feels in the body. a spacious guided meditation.
- 1 weeks ago47 min
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Dana + Appamāda: Giving and Care
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) "giving. generosity. care. giver, receiver, gift. view, intention, action. beginning again as we enter into the flow and container of retreat. this is the opening talk for the retreat titled: Rooted in Presence: A Natural Path of Insight and Belonging"
- 1 weeks ago41 min
Devon Hase: Open Hands, Open World: Taking Anapanasati Home
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This closing talk distills the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati Sutta into what's most portable for daily life — calming the body, calming the mind, opening the heart, and letting go — offered as one continuous gesture rather than four separate teachings. We'll explore simple, concrete tools for carrying retreat-mind into ordinary moments, and extend the practice into patience and sīla as it meets daily relationship and speech. The talk closes with reflections on love, belonging, and letting go: what becomes possible once the hands are finally empty enough to receive what is already here.
- 2 weeks ago42 min
Brian Lesage: To Love and Say Goodbye
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- 2 weeks ago58 min
Devon Hase: How's the Water, Boys?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening, the self growing quieter, a way of looking that's already free.
- 2 weeks ago52 min
Devon Hase: The Rose-Apple Shade: Joy, Happiness, and Wholesome Pleasure on the Path
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Drawing on Bhikkhu Anālayo's scholarship on the Ānāpānasati Sutta, this talk explores the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing: the four steps in which joy, happiness, and the subtler mental formations become doorways into deep practice. We look at why pleasure, met clearly, has always belonged on the path, and how the Buddha's own early memory of ease under a rose-apple tree pointed him toward awakening long before any formal practice did. Along the way we'll draw on the words of contemporary BIPOC and queer dharma teachers on what it means to actually receive joy in the body, and explore practical instructions for steeping in wholesome pleasure and calming it without losing it.
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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