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Pascal Auclair's Dharma Talks in English
Pascal Auclair
Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. His depth of insight, classical training, and creative expression all combine in a wise and compassionate presence. In addition, his warmth and humour make Pascal a much appreciated teacher.
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2026-06-03 Reviewing a week of practice 46:44
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-06-02 Intentions count! 1:32:10
Teaching, guided meditation and exchange with students
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-06-02 Three questions to learn how to meditate ❓❓❓ 49:07
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-06-01 Thoughts Are Empty 💭 61:36
Instructions, guided meditation and conversation on practice with retreatants
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-06-01 Mind 🪎 1:24:33
Instructions, guided meditation and Q&A
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-05-31 Celebrating the Marriage of Body and Mind 🌺🦋 48:07
Retreat at Villa La Tosca in France
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2026-04-26 Would You Have Given It 8 Folds?🗺️ 46:04
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-26 Being aware of consciousness 🪞 60:36
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-25 Clinging & the End of Clinging ⛓️‍💥 54:31
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-25 Be Aware of Intentions ➡️ 64:18
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-24 The Inevitability of the Unwanted ❤️‍🩹 60:19
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-24 Juggling with liberating qualities 🤹 57:30
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-23 Four Foundations of Wisdom 52:04
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-23 The 3 Questions Leading Insight Meditation Practice 63:53
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-22 3 Protections from 5 Obstacles 🚧🦺🏳️ 65:25
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-22 Mind States & Attitudes 🦖🐙🦋 66:41
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-21 A School of Fish 🐟🐟🐟 56:44
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2026-04-21 Nama Rupa 💡💪🏽 58:38
True North Insight À Heart that resonates
2025-12-20 Is Consciousness Me? 19:36
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-20 Playing with Metta 58:38
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-19 The second sharing of the Buddha in his small group meeting 66:07
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-18 Equanimity Practice 25:49
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-18 Where Curiosity Leads 62:52
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-17 Embracing Uncertainty 51:41
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-16 Guided Metta Meditation 27:57
Metta as renunciation and chanting to end the evening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-16 Bringing curiosity to the state of the mind. 62:36
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-12-15 Believing and not believing. 58:28
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA
2025-09-06 Last Guided Metta Meditation 23:55
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI
2025-09-06 Nourished When Encountering Pleasure. Resourced When Facing Displeasure 53:50
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI
2025-09-05 How Wisdom Leads To Love 61:20
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI
2025-09-04 Chanting and practicing Metta 26:45
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI
2025-09-04 Mindfulness of Emotions: A Journey Back Home 59:19
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI
2025-08-31 Free From Delusion, Free To Engage! 58:32
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend – 25WLD
2025-08-31 Specific and Universal Characteristics of Existence 60:56
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend – 25WLD
2025-08-30 Being With Body, Being With Mind 65:37
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend – 25WLD
2025-04-27 5 helpful faculties 62:55
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-26 Big mind meditation 36:45
Guided meditation strongly inspired by Joseph Goldstein’s Big Mind meditation
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-26 Nature of mind & thought formations 1:10:55
Talk and instructions, guided meditation and Q&A
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-25 Being with emotions 57:55
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-24 An in-this-world and an out-of-this-world view 60:25
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-24 Wise attention: what it is, where it lands, what it finds 63:09
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-23 Taking, Finding, Discovering Refuge 63:49
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2025-04-23 Human nature: an event and the knowing of it 58:47
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2024-12-20 2 Kinds of Wisdom 61:12
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-12-19 Letting Go of Obstacles to Love 41:47
Metta stories, guided meditations...and sending well wishes to hyppopotamus.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-12-19 NO SAMES 60:32
A few words on establishing contact with reality and maintaining it and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-12-18 Freedom From the Known 59:12
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-09-07 Fabrications of Mind – a Refuge? 58:51
Instructions and stories and mind creations followed by meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-09-06 Lessening suffering 54:21
Ways mindfulness can help lessen afflictive emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-09-05 Relating to strong emotions 60:24
A talk, a guided meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-09-04 Starting from scratch 47:16
How remarkable it is that mindfulness helps us investigate reality and how we relate to it starting from the Building Blocks of our experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-09-01 Four objects worthy of your attention 63:50
A short talk, a guided meditation and a Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the power of taking care 48:36
Instructions on mental noting, a guided meditation and a 20 minute talk on learning to take care of what's happening now, and now, and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the rules of the game 57:57
A few words on mindfulness, a guided meditation, and a few words on walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2024-04-27 Be ever mindful Mogharaja 50:19
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-27 Is consciousness mine? 67:16
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-26 Qualities we develop for life and for liberation 65:02
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-26 A different relationship to thoughts 66:52
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-25 The rich exploration of feeling tones II 59:12
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-25 The rich exploration of feeling tones I 67:43
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-24 Three important questions, three essential messages 61:08
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-24 Visiting the national parks of the heart/mind 66:11
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-23 How far can mindfulness take you 67:08
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2024-04-23 First morning instructions 53:37
True North Insight Guelph Retreat
2023-12-17 Not the objects, it's nature 61:12
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom
2023-12-16 Metta as renunciation 36:26
A few words and a guided metta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom
2023-12-16 Body and mind, that is the whole world 63:20
Instructions for meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom
2023-12-15 Candid and curious 46:05
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom
2023-06-13 Not hindered by hindrances 52:04
Talk given at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center in Colorado
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks
2023-05-12 Truth or Thought? 64:31
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2023-05-11 The Building Blocks of Reality 63:32
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2023-05-09 A New Vista 50:05
True North Insight A Heart that Resonates
2023-04-01 Conditionality 60:20
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society LGBTQIA2S+ Retreat British Columbia, Canada
2023-03-31 Pride Floats & Mirages 59:05
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society LGBTQIA2S+ Retreat British Columbia, Canada
2023-03-29 The Great Spring Cleaning 55:47
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society LGBTQIA2S+ Retreat British Columbia, Canada
2023-03-26 Cultivating New Ways to Perceive Reality 57:11
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society Four Wise Efforts
2023-03-25 Abandoning What Needs to Be Abandoned 46:10
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society Four Wise Efforts
2023-03-24 Opening Night Talk 40:29
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society Four Wise Efforts
2022-12-12 Three questions that mindfulness answers 59:31
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-12-11 Mindfulness is highly relational 66:20
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-12-10 Guided equanimity. 31:22
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-12-10 Taking the middle path with mind states 62:23
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-12-09 Falling into the heart of humanity 63:14
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-09-09 The monkey and the three questions 53:14
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2022-09-09 Freedom from thoughts 60:00
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2022-09-08 Releasing you from my expectations 28:26
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2022-09-07 In the domain of mindfulness. 51:41
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2022-09-04 Humbly and patiently discovering wisdom. 50:43
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2022-09-04 What is freedom? 58:12
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2022-09-03 Being with the difficult 68:46
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2022-05-14 Three Ways to Protect the Mind 50:51
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-14 How to Balance the Mind, Springs & Seesaws, Instructions and guided meditation 45:21
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-13 Wisdom 2 50:18
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-13 What Is a Thought? Instructions and guided meditation 59:37
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-12 Revealing What is Universal 66:46
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-12 What Hinders Meditation Practice, Instructions and guided meditation 56:14
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-11 How am I relating to this? 62:20
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-10 4 Foundations for Mindfulness 69:08
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-10 A Wise View, Instructions and guided meditation 52:14
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates
2022-05-09 Images of Mindfulness 59:08
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates

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