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Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

Why not find freedom, liberation, joy and love right here, right now? Through grounding ourselves in the teaching and practices that the Buddha offered, we can stand solidly on the path of freedom. Present in our bodies and connected to the earth, we can be held and graced by the dhamma, the practice, and the Ancestors.

2025-06-19 (8 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2025-06-20 Instruction: Four Foundations of Mindfulness 63:28
Jeanne Corrigal, DaRa Williams, Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
First Foundation Body-teaching and Guided Meditation

2025-06-20 Wisdom of compassion 54:21
Nolitha Tsengiwe	Download Listen
The essence of compassion is honesty about suffering. Compassion is what naturally arises when we turn towards hurts, pain, suffering with love.

2025-06-20 The Liberating Wisdom of Equanimity: Dharmette and Guided Meditation 39:25
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk explores two qualities of equanimity - balance, and balance in the midst of change. It also explores the wisdom that builds on these qualities - the wisdom of knowing that it is our response to what is happening, not what is happening, that holds the key to our liberation.

2025-06-21 The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom (Part 1) 54:06
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 3 (2nd full day): bhavana, elements, sammā dițți, Cuļa Suññata Suta (MN 121)

2025-06-22 Morning Instructions: Empty Nature of Hindrances 50:09
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 4 (3rd full day): part 2 of the dharma talk titled: “ The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom”

2025-06-23 Vedana: dharmette and guided meditation 52:42
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk overviews the four foundations of mindfulness, and then explores the second foundation of vedana, feeling tone, as a doorway to freedom.

2025-06-23 Karuna: Compassion for the Heart-Body-Mind (Centering You) 61:14
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): guided meditation centering One’s heart-body-mind. suggested for experienced meditators only.

2025-06-24 Morning Instructions: The Un-United Mental States of Emotions 2:55:39
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): mental states, emotions, sati (to remember), body, breath, hindrances, vedana (feeling tone), train rides.

2025-06-24 Love and Joy as Pathways to Liberation 69:40
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk reflects on joy and metta as central to the practice, and as supports for non-clinging. It explores this theme through the suttas, in everyday practice, and in challenging times.

2025-06-24 Joy as a Brahma Vihara: Abiding and Radiating 41:53
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk offers a way of abiding in joy and other wholesome qualities through an acronym of CARE - Connect, abide, release/refresh, enjoy. A short talk is followed by a short guided meditation in abiding and radiating sympathetic joy.