IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awareness and compassion.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on wise discernment and how to skillfully respond to what arises in retreat practice.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha emphasized the importance of seeing impermanence in many of his teachings. Reflections on the three wisdoms and how they relate to insight into change.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings and Guided Practice on working with Intention
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The arising of the 5-hindrances is beyond our control. However mindfulness and wisdom applied to these hindrances can make a difference between being caught up in them and being free from them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Use the acronym of M.A.I.N. (Mindfulness, Attitude, Insight and non-clinging) towards mindfulness of wholesome emotion can lead to development and maintain these beautiful states of mind such as generosity, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, happiness and wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on working with our "beautiful monsters" and guided meditation on RAINN
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stories and Teachings on Wise Attitude and Devotion on the Path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of hearing is one of five practices of mindfulness of Six Sense base. This practice can ground us by anchoring our attention apart from preventing unskillful states of mind from arising.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Establishing a felt sense of the body as anchor; orienting to ease and calm in knowing the body sitting, breathing
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By reflecting qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha along with the reflection on our ethical conduct, we experience peace, happiness and freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Breathing
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Final reflections of the first six weeks of the three-month retreat. It explores how refuge becomes internal rather than conditional, using the Buddha's final instruction, the Bhaddiya narrative, and the lion's roar to illuminate belonging, continuity of practice, and the transmission of Dhamma at transition points: for those staying for part 2 and those re-entering the world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Third Noble Truth is about the cessation of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and the realization of Nibbāna (awakening). Through inspiring stories of modern-day figures like Mae Chee Kaew and Dipa Ma, we see that awakening is possible in this very life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) After a brief overview of the four Bbrahmavihāras and their interconnections, the session continues with a brief reflection on upekkhā (equanimity), followed by a guided equanimity meditation.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Responses to а variety of Dharma questions
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) While walking meditation often receives less attention than sitting meditation, it offers numerous benefits worth exploring. In this talk, we will go into the 'Walking Meditation' sutta, where the Buddha outlines five benefits of this practice. We'll conclude with a bonus benefit.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the tangle of dukkha, and how it is related both to the nature of experience as impermanent, unreliable and uncontrollable and to the deep wish for happiness, safety and ease.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta Chanting and Practice
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