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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma
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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.
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.
Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to control.
55:04
Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind.
54:56
47:45
46:38
Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion toward that experience, allowing greater freedom
48:15
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
45:24
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
48:52
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This reflection includes a lot of silence).
46:03
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Andrea Fella: Not Knowing
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
44:09
Andrea Fella: Rhythms of Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
49:15
Diana Clark: When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.
45:35
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a spacious, receptive awareness without looking for a particular experience or trying to make understanding happen.
46:14
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Knowing Change
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.
50:27
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This reflection explores the practice of meeting experience without turning it into "me" or "mine." It invites noticing the subtle movement from simple experience to identification with that experience.
48:10
Andrea Fella: Allowing what has come to be
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
45:40
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Andrea Fella: Awareness of Awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
48:00
Diana Clark: No Need to Look for Insights
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
53:19
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