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Yong Oh's Dharma Talks
Yong Oh
Yong is a Dharma Council teacher at the Durango Dharma Center and a core teacher for Sacred Mountain Sangha, and is also a visiting teacher for other community centers across North America. He teaches retreats at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Big Bear Retreat Center, and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center. He is a graduate of the 4-year Insight Meditation Society Retreat Teacher Training program, Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s 2-year Community Dharma Leaders program, and the Sacred Mountain Sangha 2-year Dharmapala training, taught by his primary teachers Kittisaro and Thanissara. Yong is also a retired acupuncturist, is passionate about Nature and Dharma, and has particular interests in devotional expression, supporting caregivers, and offering teachings to communities of color in the Dharma.
2025-03-08 Refuge and Love: A Path of Renunciation 29:45
This talk explores renunciation as a practice of "letting in" rather than "letting go." Yong shares personal experiences with caregiving and grief, emphasizing that true liberation comes through refuge and love. He suggests that renunciation isn't about forcing ourselves to release attachments, but about creating safety through refuge so that letting go happens naturally.
Refuge of Belonging
2025-02-27 Loving Letting Go: Metta and Letting it All Be 46:16
Renunciation and Refuge - Metta and the path of letting be, of loving. Our ground of liberation is love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS
2025-02-24 Metta, Safety, Protection, Care 39:36
Exploration of Metta and our relationship to safety, protection and care.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS
2024-11-24 Guan Yin and the Burned Out Buddha 45:55
Reflections on compassion, love, care and our journey to wholeness. Touching on the stories of the ascetic Buddha, Sujata, Guan Yin/Avalokiteshvara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love
2024-11-19 A Path of Listening, Resting and Learning to Trust 42:23
Reflections on suchness and the Tathagatha, what we can be inspired by from the story of the Buddha underneath the Rose Apple Tree, learning to trust resting and listening. Bhavana as doing less, not more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Radiance: Exploring the Freedom of Awareness
2023-06-18 Questions and response 66:17
with DaRa Williams, Jeanne Corrigal, Jozen Tamori Gibson, Lissa Edmond, Yong Oh
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center By Any Means Necessary: A Journey to Liberation & Freedom Through Wisdom & the Heart

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