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Teacher Talks & Meditations

Talks on the practice of meditation are a vital aspect of the IMS retreat experience and help to bring alive the Buddha’s teachings of freedom. At the Retreat Center, teachers offer talks on a daily basis. At the Forest Refuge, talks usually take place twice a week.

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Abiding with Creation

Anatta

Appearances as Dis-appearances

Atammayata

Attending to the Immovable

Awaken To The Truth Of Our Buddha Nature

Being Somebody and Being Nobody

Benefit Of Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension in Daily Life

Carol Wilson: An Unhesitating Generosity

Christina Feldman – The Wisdom of Disappointment

Christina Feldman: The Healing Power of Mindfulness

Clinging and Non-Clinging

Commitment to Enlightenment

Concentration and Insight

Concentration Is Not About Effort

Dependent Origination

Dependent Origination

Developing the Graceful Heart

Discovering Ease on a Path of Awareness

Domains of Insight

Don’t Know Mind

Dukkha, and the Ending of Dukkha

Energy and Tranquility Factors of Awakening

Equanimity

Equanimity, Balance and Ease

Five Spiritual Faculties

Freedom Through Practicing Right Effort

Gina Sharpe & Larry Yang: Diverse World, Diverse Sangha

Great Joy The Ox

Guided Meditation on Emptiness – Ajahn Punnadhammo

Guy Armstrong – Working With Difficult Emotions

Guy Armstrong: Money as Dharma Practice

Happiness of a Buddha

How Letting Go Happens

Joseph Goldstein – Insight Meditation Instruction

Joseph Goldstein: Busy Life, No-Self – Guided Meditation Only

Joseph Goldstein: Busy Life, No-Self – Introduction & Guided Meditation Pt. 1

Joseph Goldstein: IMS Turns 33

Joy and Happiness

Joy and Happiness on the Path

Joy, Wonder and Friendship in Practice

Kamala Masters: Practical Wisdom for Everyday Mindfulness

Karma

Knowledge of Equanimity Towards Formations

Larry Rosenberg – Mindfulness: On and Off The Cushion

Larry Yang: Practicing Forgiveness, Practicing Connection

Liberation Through Non-Clinging

Life is Fleeting

Mana (Conceit) and Skillful Means

Maps and Overview: Stages of Attention

Metta, Wisdom and Mindfulness

Narayan Helen Liebenson – Compassion

Narayan Liebenson Grady: Sustaining Open-Heartedness

Opening the Door to Insight

Perception of Impermanence

Put it down, it’s unreliable! That’s better.

Rebecca Bradshaw: Karmic Knots

Refuge

Renunciation

Rodney Smith – Radical Accountability

Rodney Smith: Selfless Practice

Seeing the Good

Self-Compassion

Shame, Self-compassion and the Body

Sharon Salzberg – Guided Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation

Sharon Salzberg – The Force of Kindness

Sharon Salzberg – Three Personality Types

Sharon Salzberg: Caring for Others and Ourselves

Sharon Salzberg: Great Renunciation, Great Realization and Great Brave Mind

Sharon Salzberg: Practice in Unprecedented Times

Shifting Identity

Sky Dawson: Touching Stillness

Spring Washam: The Four Noble Truths Point to Joy

Standing at the Crossroads

Steve Armstrong: Awareness Pure and Simple

Sukkha – the path of happiness leading to the deepest peace

The Bodhisattva & Power of Intention

The Company We Keep: Reflections on Friendship

The Immensity of Awareness

The Metta of Awareness and the Awareness of Metta

The Power of Metta

The Present Moment: Come for the Peace, Stay for the War

The Responsive Heart

The Thermals of Awakening

The Three Characteristics

There In The Middleness

Torments: Known and Released

Understanding Karma

Unpacking Right Thought

Vulnerability, Not Knowing and Openness

What is Mindfulness?

Wisdom and Compassion

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