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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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama
(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
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The ups and downs of experience in our practice is completely normal - an encouragement that all is the path.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of thinking
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Awareness of kilesa with right attitude
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right View - Attitude in mind that's aware
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation, silent sitting, and further reflections
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(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practice "being equally near" all aspects of our bodies, minds, and emotions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity and the Brahma-viharas balance each other and bring about their full expression.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Meditation with Sympathetic Joy
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on Sympathetic Joy, including self, dear one, and friend whom you are envious of.
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we relax the thinking mind, a natural joy is revealed, independent of the conditions of our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion meditation with the body and breath.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion can be freed of patterns of codependency. We learn to trust suffering as a teacher.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how to not hold hatred in our hearts using this sutta.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta can be seen as turning toward with friendliness. This talk explores how to turn toward charged experiences.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Opening talk on Brahma Viharas at the start of a monthlong
(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.
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(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on nature as our teacher of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores active and receptive effort, and relaxing back into a more effortless relationship with the moment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Meditation inviting reflection on our wholesome intentions for retreat and practice in daily life.
(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
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice on the five jhana factors and how they antidote the hindrances.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reflection on metta and the human condition, inspired by Jane Hirshfield's poetry.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) With a more receptive mindfulness, we settle into tasting the truth of each moment
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