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| Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning Reflection | 13 Mar 2026 | 00:15:06 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Four Great Efforts: Connecting with emotions in an onward leading way. | |||
| Rebecca Bradshaw: The Embodied Heart | 12 Mar 2026 | 00:52:56 | |
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| Devon Hase: Storytelling | 11 Mar 2026 | 00:10:45 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories and humor from beloved teacher Ajahn Brahm. | |||
| Devon Hase: Guided Meditation of the Elements in the Body | 10 Mar 2026 | 00:18:41 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice for directly experiencing the four elements in the body, followed by reading of Mary Oliver's "Humpbacks." | |||
| Devon Hase: This Body, These Elements: Coming Home to What We Are | 09 Mar 2026 | 00:45:28 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's contemplation of the four elements — earth, water, fire, and air — offers a gentle but radical path: from the conceit of "my body" to the felt sense of being nature itself. A guided exploration of elemental awareness, grounded in retreat experience, Satipatthana practice, and the luminous body-wisdom of beloved poets. | |||
| Devon Hase: Opening the Retreat | 04 Mar 2026 | 00:17:21 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Deep Welcome, Reflections on Retreat and Metta Practice | |||
| Devon Hase: A Field of Care: Metta Through Every Dimension of the Path | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:42:40 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How does loving-kindness infuse every dimension of the path? Drawing from a sweat-drenched pilgrimage around Shikoku's 88 temples, Devon explores metta not as a single technique but as a way of life woven through the Eightfold Path — from wise intention and ethical attunement, through generosity and letting go, to the boundless radiance of the brahmaviharas. Along the way, we discover how metta practice can open into concentration, healing, and even emptiness itself, and how the original instructions invite us simply to fill our bodies and the whole world with a field of care. | |||
| 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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| Caroline Jones: Morning Reflections: Paramis and practice in daily life | 26 Feb 2026 | 00:17:25 | |
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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 | |||
| 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: Anicca/Impermanence | 19 Feb 2026 | 00:14:31 | |
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| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Reflection on Six-Factored Equanimity | 18 Feb 2026 | 00:14:36 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of 6 senses can lead to equanimity where we are no longer attached to pleasant experience or aversive to unpleasant experiences. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Theory and Practice of Equanimity | 17 Feb 2026 | 00:50:00 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The practice of equanimity towards beings and various states of minds, such as the eight worldly winds, can lead to peace and freedom. | |||
| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of Intentions | 16 Feb 2026 | 00:11:40 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we bring awareness to major intentions, we can make wise/wholesome choices & the practice of continuity of mindfulness, concurrence and concentration. | |||
| Caroline Jones: The Five Daily Reflections: contemplating our mortality together | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:48:41 | |
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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 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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| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
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