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Retreat Dharma Talks

Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-23 (43 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2025-11-06 Morning reflection: Releasing papanca / proliferation 51:26
Jill Shepherd
2025-11-06 Suffering and It's Cause 65:49
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Understanding Suffering and abandoning the cause of suffering (craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence) can lead to peace, happiness and freedom.
2025-11-07 Freedom and the Five Aggregates 50:53
Brian Lesage
2025-11-09 Encouragement on the Path 1:24:37
Devon Hase
Forty-five minute silent meditation followed by the story of Philippe Petit, a high wire artist that trained intensively to master his art.
2025-11-09 Second Noble Truth: craving for becoming and non-becoming 42:10
Jill Shepherd
Includes suggestions for practicing with comparing mind and the inner critic
2025-11-10 Refuge in Dhamma 49:50
Devon Hase
Poems, stories, and reflections on taking refuge in the truth of the dharma.
2025-11-11 Sitting In Silence and Advice on practicing 62:07
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Meditate like chicken! A meditator should focus on skillful intention and right effort (both of which) are under one's control. However the result are beyond one's control.
2025-11-11 Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger 48:20
Devon Hase
Reflections and guided practice on cultivating karuna (compassion) for a friend and a stranger.
2025-11-13 The 3rd Noble Truth! 62:01
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Cessation of Suffering coincides the realization of the end of suffering with the elimination of craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence. This is the practice toward ultimate final peace, Nibbana.
2025-11-14 Vast Time, Small Bodies: Letting the Dharma Flow Through 46:50
Brian Lesage
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