Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2025
Cara Lai: Breaking out of Samsara
Jeanne Corrigal: Joy as a Brahma Vihara: Abiding and Radiating
Jeanne Corrigal: Love and Joy as Pathways to Liberation
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Morning Instructions: The Un-United Mental States of Emotions
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Karuna: Compassion for the Heart-Body-Mind (Centering You)
Jeanne Corrigal: Vedana: dharmette and guided meditation
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Morning Instructions: Empty Nature of Hindrances
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom (Part 1)
Jeanne Corrigal: The Liberating Wisdom of Equanimity: Dharmette and Guided Meditation
Nolitha Tsengiwe: Wisdom of compassion
DaRa Williams, Jeanne Corrigal, Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Instruction: Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Tara Mulay: The Five Aggregates of Clinging
Devin Berry: Wise Effort and Faith: The Heart of Steady Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Explores the relationship between wise effort and faith on the path of insight. Through story, sutta, and reflection, this talk offers guidance for navig…
JoAnna Hardy: Metta mish mosh, choose your practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.
Bart van Melik: Trust Impermanence
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
Bart van Melik: Emergency Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How kindness and the breath can be used when feeling fear.
Bart van Melik: What's in the Way, is the Way
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring how the 5 hindrances can become opportunities for growth.
JoAnna Hardy: Morning Instructions, hindrances, sense doors
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Touching in to normalize the hindrances, then guidance on sense doors, internal/external awareness and curiosity of sensations and experience
JoAnna Hardy: Metta Introduction and Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An brief over view of the Bramaviharas, focusing on Metta for easy being, neutral being and self
Bart van Melik: What would kindness do?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on how kindness manifests as generosity, friendship and a willingness to learn.