(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion toward that experience, allowing greater freedom

Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to control.

Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Andrea Fella: What is true in this moment?

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind.

Andrea Fella: The Mind of Freedom

Andrea Fella: Release - and not picking up

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This reflection includes a lot of silence).

Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?

Andrea Fella: Aware... Just This...

Andrea Fella: Reflections on the teaching to Bahiya

Buddismo

Religione e spiritualità

IMS’s Forest Refuge has  hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.