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| Caroline Jones: Compassion | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:48:45 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Right speech, silence and deep listening | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:12:32 | |
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| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Working with Physical Pain | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:11:42 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Pain is a given and suffering is optional. Mindfulness of unpleasant feelings, such as pain, can transform pain into fertile soil for wisdom and for freedom from suffering to arise. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Mindfulness of Feelings (2nd Foundation of Mindfulness) | 10 Feb 2026 | 00:55:20 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of feelings plays a crucial role in our daily life and practice. The arising of feelings is beyond our control but mindfulness of them can make a difference between being in bondage and being free from suffering. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Practicing the 4 Protective Meditation | 07 Feb 2026 | 00:14:43 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the 4 protective meditation namely- Reflection on the qualities of the Buddha or Dhamma or Sangha; Reflection on metta, reflection of body parts (visible ones); reflection on death causes and protect us from: Doubt, Attachment, Aversion, Laziness, respectively. | |||
| Caroline Jones: Refuge | 06 Feb 2026 | 00:52:31 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Guided body scan | 05 Feb 2026 | 00:25:47 | |
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| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Theory & Practice of Lovingkindness (Metta) | 03 Feb 2026 | 00:52:06 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is the quality of the heart/mind that wishes for the welfare, happiness and benefit of all sentient beings. Daily practice of Metta can reduce anger, aversion and lead to joy, happiness and concentration.
All of which is very critical to the path of liberation. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Reflections on one's ethical conduct (virtues) | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:21:38 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindful reflection along with one's virtues such as observing the 5 precepts can lead to joy, happiness and fuel the path to freedom. | |||
| Winnie Nazarko: Working with Thought in Meditation | 16 Jan 2026 | 00:57:58 | |
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| Joseph Goldstein: Questions and Answers with Joseph Goldstein | 30 Dec 2025 | 01:00:58 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Non Attachment to Desire | 29 Dec 2025 | 00:13:36 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflections: Paramis and practice in daily life | 26 Feb 2026 | 00:17:25 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Appreciating the Good | 27 Dec 2025 | 00:10:14 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Impermanence/Anicca | 25 Dec 2025 | 00:15:03 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: The Taste of Freedom | 24 Dec 2025 | 00:16:14 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Continuity of Awareness | 23 Dec 2025 | 00:11:15 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Relating Wisely to Unskillful Qualities of Mind | 22 Dec 2025 | 00:54:13 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Generosity | 20 Dec 2025 | 00:14:40 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Equanimity | 19 Dec 2025 | 00:51:32 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: The Four Great Elements | 18 Dec 2025 | 00:20:34 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Care Enough | 16 Dec 2025 | 00:15:33 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Embodiment as a Beloved Teacher | 15 Dec 2025 | 00:53:22 | |
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| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Practicing in Daily Life | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:18:06 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Learning to use mindful attention to unskillful and skillful state of mind is crucial for continuity of our practice in daily life | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: The Buddha's advice to Bahiya | 13 Dec 2025 | 00:05:52 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Mudita: Appreciative Joy | 12 Dec 2025 | 00:53:26 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Right Effort | 11 Dec 2025 | 00:16:49 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Embodied Calm | 10 Dec 2025 | 00:11:06 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short Dharma Talk | |||
| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: 4 Dharma Contemplations | 09 Dec 2025 | 00:00:02 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: 4 Dharma Contemplations | 09 Dec 2025 | 00:13:40 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short Dharma talk | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Simplicity | 06 Dec 2025 | 00:12:15 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Hindrances: Understanding, recognizing and relating wisely to them. | 05 Dec 2025 | 00:55:23 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: The Brahma Viharas as Four Friends | 04 Dec 2025 | 00:17:30 | |
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| Mark Nunberg: Aligning with the Truth of Our Experience | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:48:34 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's teachings on the three characteristics. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Joy of Dhamma | 24 Feb 2026 | 00:49:27 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Practicing the Noble 8 fold path can lead to experiencing a lot of joy in our practice and daily life. Joy serves as a basis & support for awakening; as a signpost to our progress, and an anti-dote to suffering | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Right Speech | 29 Nov 2025 | 00:12:56 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Gratitude | 27 Nov 2025 | 00:13:53 | |
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| Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: The Heart that Gives Itself Away | 26 Nov 2025 | 00:12:07 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on how boundless Metta naturally becomes gratitude and generosity. Grounded in early teachings, elemental presence, embodied practice, and the simple movement of a heart learning to give freely. | |||
| Devin Berry: The Overview Effect of the Heart | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:51:01 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Metta is a profound shift in perspective, linking the astronauts overview effect with the Buddha's teachings on Boundlessness. Through story, reflection and classical teaching, we explore how the heart opens beyond "me", revealing clarity, shared belonging and the identity shift that makes compassion the only sane response. | |||
| Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: The Way Across | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:12:00 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Inspired by Mettagu's question to the Buddha, this reflection pints to a directly visible path through suffering. Loosening the grip of "mine" and meeting life with clarity, ease and lovingkindness. | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness directed to the body. | 20 Nov 2025 | 00:45:21 | |
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| Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: Natural Great Peace | 19 Nov 2025 | 00:19:11 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A brief reflection on Natural Great Peace, Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche's teaching, and the Karaniya Metta Sutta as an invitation to let the tired mind finally rest deeply. Includes recording of Dhammaruwan Chanting the Metta Sutta. | |||
| Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: Ordinary & Radical Gathering of the Heart-Mind | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:20:59 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on Samadhi as easeful, embodied, and quietly radical. Showing how gentleness, continuity, wise attention and wise letting go reveal a freedom that doesn't depend on striving or attainment. | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Compassion | 15 Nov 2025 | 00:11:38 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Dharma Talk: Four Indispensable Meditative Skills. | 14 Nov 2025 | 00:56:19 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Anicca/Impermanence | 19 Feb 2026 | 00:14:31 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of vedana | 13 Nov 2025 | 00:19:45 | |
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| Devin Berry: Morning Reflection: Trust the River | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:16:18 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Log Sutta (SN): Encouragement to trust the current, not get caught and let the Dhamma carry you home to freedom. | |||
| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: The insubstantiality of the five aggregates | 08 Nov 2025 | 00:17:25 | |
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| Caroline Jones: Cultivating a wise relationship with thought | 07 Nov 2025 | 00:39:42 | |
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