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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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- 1 weeks ago50 min
Carol Wilson: Some Benefits of Continuity of Awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.
- 1 weeks ago49 min
Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
- 1 weeks ago48 min
Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Gone To The Body
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness
- 2 weeks ago1h 3m
Akincano Marc Weber: Four dimensions of contemplative practice.
(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
- 2 weeks ago51 min
Yuka Nakamura: Open awareness and awareness of awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
- 2 weeks ago49 min
Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: Cittānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhāna Channels Guided exercise on practicing with citta states.
(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.
- 2 weeks ago1h 3m
Akincano Marc Weber: Dimensions of Not-Knowing (the bad kind) and possible antidotes
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Breakdown of types of ignorance in Buddhist teaching. Unpacking some of the terms avijjā and moha. Sketching their different use in the old texts despite their occasional synonymous use. Excursions into conditionality.
- 2 weeks ago52 min
Yuka Nakamura: Mindfulness of feeling tones (vedanā)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions
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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