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The Insight Meditation Society’s Forest Refuge supports the practice of more experienced meditators on personal retreat. Our teachers provide guidance and support in insight and lovingkindness practices drawn from the Buddhist meditative tradition. Please visit dharma.org for more information.

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    Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2026 54:43


    (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.

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    Andrea Fella: What is true in this moment?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2026 47:23


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    Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 54:56


    (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.

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    Andrea Fella: Release - and not picking up

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 46:16


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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2026 45:03


    (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)

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    Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2026 47:53


    (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

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2026 48:30


    (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)

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2026 46:03


    (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).

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    Andrea Fella: Aware... Just This...

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 43:32


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    Andrea Fella: Reflections on the teaching to Bahiya

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 57:07


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    Andrea Fella: Not Knowing

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 43:47


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.

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    Andrea Fella: Rhythms of Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2026 48:54


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2026 45:53


    (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.

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    Diana Clark: When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2026 45:13


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Knowing Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2026 50:27


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 48:09


    (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.

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    Andrea Fella: Allowing what has come to be

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2026 45:19


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.

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    Andrea Fella: Recognizing Delusion

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 65:06


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    Andrea Fella: Awareness of Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 47:39


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.

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    Diana Clark: No Need to Look for Insights

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2026 52:57


    (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.

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    Diana Clark: From Judgment to Understanding: A Path to Freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 54:08


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores how curiosity, discernment, and seeing conditions clearly can loosen judgment and support greater freedom.

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Learning From What is Here

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 45:01


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we stop trying to create the "right" meditation, every experience can become something to learn from.

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    Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Steady, Not Strained

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2026 51:18


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right Effort asks for commitment, but not strain. This recording begins with a reflection and guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end

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    Andrea Fella: Continuity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 53:08


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided reflection, followed by silence, followed by further reflection

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    Andrea Fella: Supports for continuity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2026 47:13


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This recording starts with a reflection/guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end of the silence.

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    Andrea Fella: Guided Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2026 0:11


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence and further reflections at the end of the sitting

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    Andrea Fella: Instructions for Receptive Awareness Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2026 66:51


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    Andrea Fella: Retreat Opening: Establishing Mindfulness, Refugees, and Precepts

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2026 67:29


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    Deborah Ratner Helzer, Mark Nunberg: Questions and Responses

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2026 49:52


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    Mark Nunberg: The Soft Power of Metta

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2026 57:30


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    Mark Nunberg: What is the Buddha's Wise View?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2026 53:04


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    Mark Nunberg: Samadhi as a Natural Process

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 62:28


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    Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2026 57:07


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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: Questions and answers and concluding remarks.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2026 64:33


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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: Turning Away

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2026 58:27


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Six kinds of turning away; Benefits in developing intuitive wisdom.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: Knowledge of Equanimity toward Formations

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2026 56:27


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discerning formations as void; key features of the knowledge of equanimity toward formations.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: How does Equanimity support Wisdom?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2026 61:32


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity stops the cycle of reactivity; it does not get entangled in formations; it abandons fear and delight.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: How many kinds of understanding are there?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2026 57:11


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wisdom is having the characteristic of penetrating the individual essences is of one kind; as mundane and supramundane, it is of two kinds, etc. The breaking up of formations.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: How Wisdom is Developed in Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2026 58:13


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Repeated comprehension of materiality; * Enlightenment factors promote the growth of wisdom; * Liberations and hindrances; * Seeing the breaking up of formations develops wisdom.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: How Wisdom Is Developed

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 62:12


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) General and specific aspects of the unfolding of wisdom.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: The Two Fields

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2026 50:36


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The field of mental defilements resembles a weed-infested piece of land, and the field of wisdom is likened to a beautiful garden.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: The Acquisition of Insight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2026 58:01


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Virtue, concentration, meditation, desire (chanda), striving, faith, approaching a teacher, and more.

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: What is Wisdom?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2026 55:18


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Various definitions of Intuitive Wisdom: controlling faculty of wisdom; wisdom as an enlightenment factor. Differences between perception (saññāṇa), consciousness (viññāṇa), and wisdom (paññā).

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    Sayadaw Vivekananda: Fundamentals of Satipatthana

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2026 64:26


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Keeping the mind in the present moment, observing what is conspicuous in an effective manner.

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    Dawn Neal: Noble View Beyond Dichotomy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2026 40:32


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    Dawn Neal: In This Very Moment

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2026 41:15


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    Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Happiness and Contentment as Supports for Equanimity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2026 46:58


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    Jill Shepherd: Talk: Equanimity as a resource for navigating transitions

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2026 44:30


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    Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2026 17:37


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Three Poems and a Farewell

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    Caroline Jones: The Four Brahma Viharas

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2026 47:10


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    Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2026 16:13


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Vedana/Feeling Tone

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