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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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    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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    Carol Wilson: Receptive Awareness All the Time

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 12:35


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    Andrea Fella: Instructions for Receptive Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 41:10


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    Tim Geil: Dynamic Balancing of Equanimity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 27:40


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity can be a dynamic balancing between the ups and downs of our lives. We also explore working with worry and the joy and wonder of equanimity.

    Tim Geil: Equanimity Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 28:18


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practice "being equally near" all aspects of our bodies, minds, and emotions.

    Tim Geil: Equanimity and the Brahma-viharas

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 26:13


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity and the Brahma-viharas balance each other and bring about their full expression.

    Tim Geil: Sympathetic Joy Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 25:18


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Meditation with Sympathetic Joy

    Tim Geil: Happiness as an Expression of the Liberated Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 26:19


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Using "So Much Happiness" by Naomi Shihab Nye, we explore how releasing the sense of self allows unbounded happiness to emerge.

    Tim Geil: Sympathetic Joy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 27:07


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on Sympathetic Joy, including self, dear one, and friend whom you are envious of.

    Tim Geil: The Challenges of Sympathetic Joy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 29:49


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Sympathetic Joy sometimes reveals its opposite, such as envy or jealousy. This can be a gift that grows into wisdom.

    Tim Geil: Joy Outside of Conditions

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 28:04


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we relax the thinking mind, a natural joy is revealed, independent of the conditions of our lives.

    Tim Geil: Compassion Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 25:47


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion meditation with the body and breath.

    Tim Geil: Compassion vs. Codependency

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 25:49


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion can be freed of patterns of codependency. We learn to trust suffering as a teacher.

    Tim Geil: Compassiom Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 25:30


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.

    Tim Geil: Compassion: The Personal and Universal

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 27:41


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.

    Tim Geil: Loving kindness to all beings

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 26:46


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Bring the vastness of the earth and spaciousness of air in offering metta to all aspects of ourselves and all beings.

    Tim Geil: Metta and Hatred: Simile of the Saw

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 26:17


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how to not hold hatred in our hearts using this sutta.

    Tim Geil: Metta: The Intention of Turning Toward

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 23:27


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta can be seen as turning toward with friendliness. This talk explores how to turn toward charged experiences.

    Narayan Helen Liebenson, Tim Geil: Opening Talk on Brahma Viharas

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 78:47


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Opening talk on Brahma Viharas at the start of a monthlong

    Devon Hase: Dharma Reflection: Dhamma Chanda

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 18:56


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Teachings on how to work with deep desire for deliverance and how to smooth out the energy body when things get intense in retreat.

    Rebecca Bradshaw: Not self from a heart paradigm

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 55:39


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    Devon Hase: Aging, Illness, and Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 53:14


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Four Heavenly Messengers and the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, with a focus on practicing with aging, illness. and death.

    Devon Hase: Dharma Reflection: Four Brahma Viharas in Nature

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 11:50


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on nature as our teacher of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha.

    Rebecca Bradshaw: Stepping Back from Striving

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 54:05


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores active and receptive effort, and relaxing back into a more effortless relationship with the moment.

    Devon Hase: Wise Intention

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 11:36


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Meditation inviting reflection on our wholesome intentions for retreat and practice in daily life.

    Devon Hase: Dharma Reflection - The Two Benefits

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 18:32


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Teachings on the Queen Mallika sutta and how doing metta for ourselves naturally translates to metta for everybody. For General Public

    Devon Hase: Chanting Imaya Dhammanu and Karaniya Metta in Pali and English

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 19:20


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    Devon Hase: Dharma Reflection - Beautiful Qualities of the Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 20:38


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice on the five jhana factors and how they antidote the hindrances.

    Devon Hase: Dharma Reflection - To Be a Person

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 12:46


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reflection on metta and the human condition, inspired by Jane Hirshfield's poetry.

    Rebecca Bradshaw: Tasting the True Grain of the Moment

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 45:31


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) With a more receptive mindfulness, we settle into tasting the truth of each moment

    Caroline Jones: The Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances: Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 49:14


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