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Akincano Marc Weber's Dharma Talks
Akincano Marc Weber
Akincano Marc Weber (Switzerland) is a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. He learned to sit still in the early eighties as a Zen practitioner and later joined monastic life in Ajahn Chah’s tradition where he studied and practiced for 20 years in the Forest monasteries of Thailand and Europe. He has studied Pali and scriptures, holds a a degree in Buddhist psychotherapy and lives with his wife in Cologne, Germany from where he teaches Dhamma and meditation internationally.
2017-01-10 Contemplating Body – take two (kāyānupassanā) 42:02
Involuntary and voluntary attention – attention vs. mindfulness – the notion of embodiment – pleasure and discomfort and the training of a deliberate attentional relationship. Followed by experiential exercise: Three dimensions of bodily awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research
2017-01-09 Re-contextualising Mindfulness 54:32
Sati in Buddhist Psychology, sati in Mind-development, Images of sati. Establishing the Fourfold Mindfulness: (satipaṭṭhāna) as map and as four channels of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research
2017-01-09 Guided meditation on body & body-awareness 43:21
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research
2017-01-07 Closing Talk 68:15
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-06 Morning Reflection: 47:07
4 Dimensions of Mind-Cultivation (bhavanā) | Attention and Mindfulness: Stages
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-05 Guided Metta meditation. 45:20
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-04 Grasping and Identification (upādāna) 69:59
Where the heart gets stuck. From the metaphor to its 4 specific applications.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-03 Reflections and Guided Meditation 38:36
Reflections on the four universal forms of empathy (brahmavihāra) and a brief guided mediation on muditā
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-02 On the role of hedonic tone (vedanā) in meditation. 47:16
Reflections and an exercise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-01-01 Preamble: A look at the causes for sleepiness. Main Theme: Saddhā – trust in the context of the 5 Cardinal virtues (pañcindriyāni) 59:04
Identifying intellectual, volitional, emotional and social dimensions of trust. Balancing the virtues.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2016-12-31 Metta - Breathing - Abiding 39:38
Experiential guided metta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-12-30 Kayanupassana - Body Posture 1:43:24
The body as support for contemplation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2016-07-16 Metaphors of growth - sudden and gradual. 61:42
Thinking about Indian simile, Metaphor. Brief historical point about sudden and gradual debate in Lhasa
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-07-13 Anatta revisited - Channa's story (SN 22.90) 56:49
Self – Not-Self. Channa receives help when stuck and lost.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-04-23 Daylong: Between Now and Neverland - Mindfulness: Myth, Practice and Transmission - Morning Session 2:11:12
Dedicated to the inquiry into notions that embed the practice of mind-ful-ness — the concepts and metaphors of awareness, attention, nowness, concentration will be examined. A number of exercises help to re-contextualise mindfulness in practical ways in the light of early Buddhist psychology and contemporary approaches to meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center
2016-04-23 Daylong: Between Now and Neverland - Mindfulness: Myth, Practice and Transmission - Afternoon Session 1:37:21
Dedicated to the inquiry into notions that embed the practice of mind-ful-ness — the concepts and metaphors of awareness, attention, nowness, concentration will be examined. A number of exercises help to re-contextualise mindfulness in practical ways in the light of early Buddhist psychology and contemporary approaches to meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center
2016-04-23 Evening Talk: Between Now and Neverland - Mindfulness: Myth, Practice and Transmission 1:25:37
Dedicated to the inquiry into notions that embed the practice of mind-ful-ness — the concepts and metaphors of awareness, attention, nowness, concentration will be examined. A number of exercises help to re-contextualise mindfulness in practical ways in the light of early Buddhist psychology and contemporary approaches to meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center
2016-04-13 Meditation-Between Psychological Development and Spiritual Growth 63:49
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
2016-04-11 Course closing 34:23
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-04-10 Traveling into one's life. 22:30
Encouragement and reflections for post retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-04-08 Hindrances - 4th Satipaṭṭhāna 43:37
Meeting the meditators humanity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-04-06 Vedanā – neither sensation nor feeling. Hedonic tone in the Satipaṭṭhāna scheme 35:52
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-04-04 Kāyānupassanā - Discerning the Elements 38:49
Response to group questions - M62 - elements as qualities of sensory experience of form and materiality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-04-02 Opening talk - setting the tone 19:46
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2015-07-30 Reflection - Departures and Goodbye - The Acrobats: Frying Pan and her Master 38:37
Sedaka-Sutta from Pali and from Chinese Traditions: Looking after other by looking after oneself; looking after others by looking after oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 15 to July 31 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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