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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.
- Buddhism chart
- #49
- Episodes
- 171
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 1 hr
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 2 days ago
Episodes
171 episodes, newest first
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50 min
Devon Hase: Teachings on Vedana
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Description and guided practice on working with vedana in the body.
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50 min
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Instruction on Mindfulness of the Body/Breathing
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using the properties of the 4th element to know and experience the breath and lead to insgiht into impermanence
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49 min
Devon Hase: The Path Slopes Gently: Anupubbasikkhā and the Gradual Training
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha described awakening not as a leap to the summit but as a gradual training, one step laid down after another. Drawing on the image of walking (forest monks on tudong, pilgrims, and the cleared trails of these woods), this talk explores the anupubbasikkhā through generosity, ethics, meditation, and wisdom. With the Buddha’s teaching to Gaṇaka Moggallāna, the bird that carries only its wings, and poetry inspired by freedom, we reflect on how one thing lawfully leads to the next. We set up the conditions, and the dhamma does the rest. The arc of the path is long, but it bends toward freedom.
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49 min
Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Joy of PracticingThe Dhamma
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By practicing the Noble Eight Fold Path we can experience greater joy, happiness and freedom
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30 min
Bhante Buddharakkhita, Brett Bethke, Devon Hase, Jill Shepherd, Nakawe Cuebas Berrios, Tuere Sala: The Practice of 3 Refuge and 5 Precepts
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Taking the refuge in the Buddha Dhamma and Sangha plus undertaking the five training guidelines can provide a firm foundation for our practice.
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1 hr 6 min
Matthew Hepburn: Equanimity
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 7 min
Joseph Goldstein: Q and A
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 3 min
Andrea Fella: The journey to freedom
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 2 min
Rae Houseman: Metta -for Difficult Being
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the practice of Metta for the Difficult Being. Looking at what the practice is and what it is not. Guided Meditation
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53 min
Greg Scharf: Javana Hamsa - The Swift Swan
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk on impermanence, beginning with a version of a classic Jataka story, an updated version of a talk given previously
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56 min
Matthew Hepburn: A Handful of Mistakes from My Practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 8 min
Joseph Goldstein: Why Meditate?
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding how the mind creates suffering and how we can be free.
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15 min
Andrea Fella: Morning Questions and Reflections
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 3 min
Andrea Fella: Exploring the Five Aggregates in Experience
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr
Andrea Fella: The Five Aggregates
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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1 hr 5 min
James Baraz: Working with the Comparing and Judging Mind
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.
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1 hr 3 min
Rae Houseman: Faith: Placing the Heart Upon
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of saddha, or faith, and why it matters to examine where we place our heart upon. Ultimately, practice asks us to trust a process: the heart’s capacity to meet whatever arises, even when conditions are uncertain.
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55 min
Matthew Hepburn: Compassion
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion and why it is essential for Vipassana
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49 min
James Baraz: Heart Ptactice: Forgiveness
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on forgiveness towards our body, mind, heart and relations with others
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58 min
Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Intention
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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