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Retreat Dharma Talks

Coming Home to Kind Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat – 26BVM

2026-02-16 (6 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2026-02-18 Morning Instruction: Vedana (Feeling Tone) 40:01
Devin Berry
An introduction to Vedana, guiding awareness of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience as a foundation for insight and less reactivity. Includes Guided Meditation.
2026-02-19 Knowing the Mind: Awareness of Thoughts and Emotions 45:11
Bart van Melik
This guided meditation explores the third foundation of mindfulness—awareness of mind states. We bring kind, steady attention to thoughts, emotions, and moods, while gently investigating our relationship to them. Seeing how mindfulness can know these experiences without being defined by them, the practice opens space, clarity, and a more compassionate way of relating to the mind.
2026-02-20 The Steady Heart: Equanimity as a Path of Care 67:50
Devin Berry
A Dharma talk and guided equanimity practice exploring steadiness of heart in uncertain times; How to care deeply without hardening, collapsing, or turning away from the complexities of modern life.
2026-02-20 Four Powerful Resolves: Wisdom, Truth, Generosity, and Peace 44:47
Bart van Melik
Drawing on the story of Pukkusāti meeting the Buddha, this talk explores four core resolves: not neglecting wisdom, protecting the truth, cultivating generosity, and training in peace. With reflections from retreat practice and daily life, the talk invites us to orient the heart again and again toward these qualities as a path of gradual cultivation and inner freedom.
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