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.
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores how curiosity, discernment, and seeing conditions clearly can loosen judgment and support greater freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we stop trying to create the "right" meditation, every experience can become something to learn from.
(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
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided reflection, followed by silence, followed by further reflection
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation followed by silence and further reflections at the end of the sitting
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Six kinds of turning away; Benefits in developing intuitive wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discerning formations as void; key features of the knowledge of equanimity toward formations.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Equanimity stops the cycle of reactivity; it does not get entangled in formations; it abandons fear and delight.
(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.
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) General and specific aspects of the unfolding of wisdom.
(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.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Virtue, concentration, meditation, desire (chanda), striving, faith, approaching a teacher, and more.
(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).
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Keeping the mind in the present moment, observing what is conspicuous in an effective manner.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Three Poems and a Farewell
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Vedana/Feeling Tone
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Some suggestions for exploring anatta/not-self as a support for bothwise effort and deepening insight.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Patience
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Attuning to pleasant vedana as support for developing skillful mental qualities.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring some of the many ways doubt can show up, and how Saddha (faith, trust, confidence) can be actively cultivated as an antidote
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring our experience in relation to the elemental qualities of earth, water, fire, air, and space.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guidance for Wisdom-Awareness Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Finding Space
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Getting clearer about different levels of intention as support for making the most of our time on retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A Path of Happiness, Part 2
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided body scan
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A progressive release into emptiness, and a return through the four brahmaviharās
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk on MN 121: Culasaññata sutta exploring the meaning and experience of emptiness in the Theravada tradition.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on noticing what isn't here, and thus becoming acquainted with emptiness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on gladdening the mind and seeing the good.
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