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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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    Sayadaw U Jagara: Samadhi: Samatha vs Vipassana

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 21:20


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The difference between the "concentration" of serenity and the concentration of insight. Developed in the frame of the four spheres of existence.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: From Patience to Equanimity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 13:45


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The various aspects upekkha can take in regard to our practice.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Back from Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 11:33


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Start with a nice day

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 17:08


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Elephant's Training

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025 52:50


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Wisdom, Panna as the strongest tree

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 20:35


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Climb a tree and use the perspective you get when on top. The street here is also compared with the body.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Body-directed mindfulness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 13:21


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Be an Island for yourself

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 13:08


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)

    Sayadaw U Jagara: Guarding the mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 21:26


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Simile of the six animals, wanting to tame and understand their nature

    Sayadaw U Jagara: GPS Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 13:04


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves

    Ajahn Sucitto: Sacredness in the world

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 33:26


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The presentation of the satipatthana is of experience divided between ‘me' and ‘the world'. Through practice, we see through this boundary and undertake the responsibility of participating in and co-generating a reality rooted in Dhamma.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 58:05


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 1) priorities for lay practice- recollections to establish steady orientation to Dhamma; 2) mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 3) energy, qi, Anapanasati and integration of energy; 4) on chasing the unicorn; 5) wisdom and samadhi; 6) mudita, rapture (piti) and stability; 7) contemplating the arising of the ‘me' sense, dependent on phenomena.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Integrating Experience into the Domain of Release

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 43:44


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Based on a heart that integrates around goodwill, key features of letting go arise. These are a successive process of disengagement, dispassion, cessation and release (or relinquishment). For example bitterness and guilt can be felt as they are and move on.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Unicorns, Demons and the Heart of Release

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 53:09


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 66:02


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 1 How is there embodiment in the formless realms? 2 Is unwavering mindfulness possible? 3 Cultivating the brahmavihāra with samādhi 4 How are happiness and unhappiness equal - and what about Nibbāna? 5 What is the ‘spinal sense? 6 How do we practice forgiveness?

    Ajahn Sucitto: Ritual as Pragmatic Resource

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 65:56


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Resonating with images and meanings of the Triple Gem generates positive waves that place in the field of the True, the Good and the Beautiful - the best place for practice.

    Ajahn Sucitto: The Practice of Non-Clinging

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 45:06


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigate the casual process of how dhammas arise and subside, and learn how to be with that.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Recollecting and Entering the Benevolent Field

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 55:46


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Bringing to mind and resonating with benevolent occasions in one's life to build up a solid resonant sign to sit with.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Managing the Waves in the Lake

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 57:29


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Citta/heart is like a lake with waves rippling through it. The unawakened response is to create walls to resist the unpleasant, and fences to retain the pleasant - and 'me' to hold it all. Awakening responses to the waves are the skills of samadhi and brahmavihara. These make the lake vast and able to allow waves to arise and subside. They are door to the deathless - the unconstructed that the citta can enter through non-holding.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Realization Goes Against the Grain

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 53:34


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The process of fruition through satipatthana entails resources, obstacles, skills, release and integration. Nibbana can be momentary whenever the consciousness of subject and object deconstructs.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Roots of felt body - sensing the field

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 50:11


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Walking Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2025 5:53


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    Ajahn Sucitto: Regulating inner with outer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 56:38


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Through consciousness, boundaries form between subject and object; thus, me and the world. Through the stress of that, the me closes into a bag. Defense and acquisition strategies. Heart (citta) is not consciousness and can turn away from creating the same me bag. This is through regulating inner-outer sensitivities to a harmonious whole.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Chanting: theory and practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 39:14


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    Ajahn Sucitto: Heart + spine = committment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 33:14


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Effort is the engagement of heart with a topic. In satipatthana, the engagement is with body as an intelligent entity. When heart meets the ‘spinal sense' there is resolve and stability.

    Ajahn Sucitto: GM - Standing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 9:27


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    Ajahn Sucitto: Body in and of itself, internal-external

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 42:43


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A review of the Satipatthana as a holistic practice

    Ajahn Sucitto: GM - Standing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 19:37


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    Ajahn Sucitto: Environmental balance

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 36:51


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How precepts and understanding support environmental balance

    Ajahn Sucitto: Opening comments, introductions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 6:19


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    Andrea Fella: Awareness and Wisdom Doing their Jobs

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 41:37


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    Carol Wilson: Morning Reflection

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 40:27


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama

    Carol Wilson: Transferring Habits of Greed, Aversion, and Delusion

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 61:26


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Advice from the Buddha on some ways of cultivating wise attention to feed/support wholesome qualities of mind, and starve the unwholesome habits

    Carol Wilson: Mundane and Supermundane Right View

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 49:25


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    Andrea Fella: Transcendent Dependent Arising

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 61:34


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    Andrea Fella: Wisdom and Trust

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 40:59


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    Carol Wilson: Morning Reflections

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 45:37


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The ups and downs of experience in our practice is completely normal - an encouragement that all is the path.

    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflection: Curiosity about Selfing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 42:20


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    Andrea Fella: Noticing Perception

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 60:25


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    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflection: Impermanence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 44:18


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    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflection: Neither Tarrying nor Hurrying

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 43:05


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    Carol Wilson: Morning Reflection

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 47:22


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of thinking

    Carol Wilson: Explaining with Interest/Awareness how kilesas function - to trick us into confusion

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 59:44


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    Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 45:55


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of kilesa with right attitude

    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflection: Aware of Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 45:44


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    Andrea Fella: Supports for Continuity

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 64:57


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    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflections: Conditionality

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 50:14


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    Andrea Fella: Working with Difficulty

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 46:47


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    Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 49:11


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right View - Attitude in mind that's aware

    Andrea Fella: Awareness with Thoughts and Thinking

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 60:06


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation, silent sitting, and further reflections

    Andrea Fella: Elaboration on Receptive Awareness Instructions

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 63:04


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