Chas DiCapua's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Chas DiCapua  
 
    
        
                            
      Chas DiCapua is currently the Insight Meditation Society's Resident Teacher, and has offered meditation since 1998. He is interested in how each person can fully and uniquely manifest the dharma. He teaches regularly at sitting groups and centers close to IMS.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2021-04-01
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 1 2021 
    
        2021-04-12
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 12 2021 
    
        2021-04-13
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 13 2021 
    
        2021-04-19
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 19 2021 
    
        2021-04-02
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 2 2021 
    
        2021-04-20
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 20 2021 
    
        2021-04-29
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 29 2021 
    
        2021-04-30
             IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 30 2021 
    
        2021-02-01
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 1 2021 
    
        2021-02-10
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 10 2021 
    
        2021-02-11
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 11 2021 
    
        2021-02-12
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 12 2021 
    
        2021-02-15
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 15 2021 
    
        2021-02-16
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 16 2021 
    
        2021-02-17
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 17 2021 
    
        2021-02-18
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 18 2021 
    
        2021-02-19
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 19 2021 
    
        2021-02-02
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 2 2021 
    
        2021-02-24
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 24 2021 
    
        2021-02-25
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 25 2021 
    
        2021-02-26
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 26 2021 
    
        2021-02-03
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 3 2021 
    
        2021-02-04
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 4 2021 
    
        2021-02-05
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 5 2021 
    
        2021-02-08
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 8 2021 
    
        2021-02-09
             IMS Daily Dharma, Feb 9 2021 
    
        2021-01-11
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 11 2021 
    
        2021-01-12
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 12 2021 
    
        2021-01-13
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 13 2021 
    
        2021-01-14
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 14 2021 
    
        2021-01-15
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 15 2021 
    
        2021-01-18
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 18 2021 
    
        2021-01-19
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 19 2021 
    
        2021-01-20
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 20 2021 
    
        2021-01-21
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 21 2021 
    
        2021-01-22
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 22 2021 
    
        2021-01-25
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 25 2021 
    
        2021-01-26
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 26 2021 
    
        2021-01-27
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 27 2021 
    
        2021-01-28
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 28 2021 
    
        2021-01-04
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 4 2021 
    
        2021-01-05
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 5 2021 
    
        2021-01-06
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 6 2021 
    
        2021-01-07
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 7 2021 
    
        2021-01-08
             IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 8 2021 
    
        2021-03-10
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 10 2021 
    
        2021-03-11
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 11 2021 
    
        2021-03-12
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 12 2021 
    
        2021-03-18
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 18 2021 
    
        2021-03-19
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 19 2021 
    
        2021-03-02
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 2 2021 
    
        2021-03-24
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 24 2021 
    
        2021-03-25
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 25 2021 
    
        2021-03-31
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 31 2021 
    
        2021-03-04
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 4 2021 
    
        2021-03-09
             IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 9 2021 
    
        2011-06-26
            Acceptance, Love and How We Be In The World 
    
        2024-06-30
            At Home Practice Suggestions 
    
        2022-02-21
            Aversion in meditation 
    
        2023-12-06
            Body, Gateway To The Liberation Of The Heart 
    
        2025-02-17
            Body: First establishment of mindfulness 
    
        2016-02-16
            Calm and Concentration 
    
        2015-02-14
            Calm and Samadhi 
    
        2013-10-13
            Change: The Gateway To Freedom: A Daylong for Young Adults (Part 1) 
    
        2013-10-13
            Change: The Gateway To Freedom: A Daylong for Young Adults (Part 2) 
    
        2022-02-19
            Chi Gong stance 
    
        2020-03-07
            Choiceless Awareness 
    
        2018-07-26
            Choosing and Working With An Anchor 
    
        2014-02-21
            Climate Change 
    
        2014-02-21
            Climate Change 
    
        2022-02-20
            Compassion 
    
        2020-02-15
            Conditionality 
    
        2023-03-18
            Connecting to formal practice to the wider path. 
    
        2022-07-09
            Cultivating the investigation awakening factor 
    
        2019-10-02
            Dharma Practice Is Relational Practice 
    
        2015-05-27
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2024-06-29
            Dharma Talk Eightfold Path 
    
        2024-06-28
            Dharma Talk From Transcendence to Transmutation 
    
        2022-01-05
            Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 
    
        2019-09-22
            Emotions 
    
        2018-02-23
            Enlightenment as Inclusion - Meditation 
    
        2018-02-23
            Enlightenment as Inclusion - Talk 
    
        2017-10-11
            Enlightenment as Wholeness 
    
        2021-03-03
            Ethical Conduct 
    
        2020-03-07
            Feeling Tone (Vedanā) 
    
        2025-02-19
            Feeling Tone: 2nd Establishment of Enlightenment 
    
        2012-11-24
            Finding Joy and Happiness Through Renunciation 
    
        2025-01-08
            Finding Refuge During Difficult Times 
    
        2012-10-27
            Finding the Truth Through Truth 
    
        2013-02-15
            Finding Truth Through Truth 
    
        2015-12-11
            Finding Truth Through Truth 
    
        2019-02-20
            Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 
    
        2007-07-02
            Freedom Through Understanding The Six Sense Bases 
    
        2011-10-15
            Generosity  
    
        2025-07-02
            Going Against The Grain and Creating a Wholesome Field 
    
        2008-01-24
            Going For Refuge 
    
        2015-12-04
            Going For Refuge 
    
        2025-02-23
            Guest Teacher Talk with Chas DiCapua: Creating A Suitable Home For The Heart 
    
        2024-06-28
            Guided Loving Kindness Practice 
    
        2024-06-29
            Guided Loving Kindness Practice 
    
        2008-08-03
            Guided Metta Meditation 
    
        2014-05-14
            Healing Body, Refuge Body, Freedom Body 
    
        2007-03-20
            Hindrances 
    
        2016-02-19
            How a Night Light Taught Me About the Three Characteristics 
    
        2012-07-28
            How Change Happens On This Path 
    
        2017-02-18
            How Compassion is Present in a mMoment of Mindfulness 
    
        2020-12-01
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 1 2020 
    
        2020-12-10
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 10 2020 
    
        2020-12-11
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 11 2020 
    
        2020-12-15
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 15 2020 
    
        2020-12-17
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 17 2020 
    
        2020-12-24
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 24 2020 
    
        2020-12-29
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 29 2020 
    
        2020-12-03
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 3 2020 
    
        2020-12-31
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 31 2020 
    
        2020-12-07
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 7 2020 
    
        2020-12-08
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 8 2020 
    
        2020-12-09
            IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 9 2020 
    
        2021-01-01
            IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 1 2021 
    
        2020-11-10
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 10 2020 
    
        2020-11-17
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 17 2020 
    
        2020-11-19
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 19 2020 
    
        2020-11-27
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 27 2020 
    
        2020-11-03
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 3 2020 
    
        2020-11-05
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 5 2020 
    
        2020-11-09
            IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 9 2020 
    
        2020-10-27
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 27 2020 
    
        2020-10-29
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 29 2020 
    
        2020-10-30
            IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 30 2020 
    
        2018-07-29
            Instructions On Meditating With Thoughts. 
    
        2018-07-28
            Investigation As Intimacy 
    
        2014-07-27
            Joy 
    
        2025-02-09
            Joy 
    
        2015-02-25
            Judgement and Discernment 
    
        2015-02-16
            Judgement and discernment 
    
        2023-03-19
            Loving Kindness 
    
        2023-07-28
            Loving Kindness 
    
        2025-07-29
            Loving Kindness and Compassion Practice 
    
        2022-07-07
            Loving kindness instructions 
    
        2019-07-25
            Loving Kindness Practice 
    
        2025-02-12
            Loving Kindness Practice 
    
        2024-02-25
            Making A Suitable Home For The Heart - Meditation 
    
        2024-02-25
            Making A Suitable Home For The Heart - Talk 
    
        2022-07-30
            Meditating with emotions 
    
        2025-02-10
            Meditating with Emotions 
    
        2020-03-11
            Meditating With Physical Discomfort 
    
        2020-03-06
            Meditating With Thoughts 
    
        2020-11-11
            Meditation Instructions on Breath & Body 
    
        2020-11-12
            Meditation Instructions On Thoughts 
    
        2012-08-08
            Metta 
    
        2009-07-06
            Metta and the Breath 
    
        2022-02-22
            Metta meditation 
    
        2024-07-30
            Metta Practice 
    
        2022-07-29
            Metta practice with an easy being 
    
        2017-07-30
            Metta Towards Oneself 
    
        2022-07-06
            Mindfulness 
    
        2022-07-28
            Mindfulness 
    
        2014-10-26
            Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4 
    
        2012-11-17
            Mindfulness Of Body 
    
        2025-07-27
            Mindfulness of Body 
    
        2025-07-28
            Mindfulness of Body and Body Breathing 
    
        2011-04-02
            Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2019-03-17
            Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2014-03-22
            Mindfulness Of The Body and Breath 
    
        2015-02-21
            Mindfulness, Judgement and Discernment 
    
        2023-07-30
            Misperceptions about dhama practice 
    
        2023-07-31
            Morning Instructions: (vedana) feeling Tone 
    
        2024-07-29
            Morning Instructions:Choosing an anchor 
    
        2018-01-04
            Morning Instuctions - Chas and Yanai 
    
        2020-02-18
            Not-Self 
    
        2024-02-22
            Nowhere to go, Nothing to do, No one to be or become 
    
        2023-02-20
            Nutriment 
    
        2011-06-07
            One Earth Sangha 
    
        2024-10-23
            Out of the Head, Into the Body 
    
        2024-06-30
            Practicing At Home Discussion 
    
        2023-03-20
            Practicing with emotions 
    
        2024-06-29
            Practicing With Thoughts Instruction 
    
        2015-07-26
            Purity and Purification 
    
        2018-02-14
            Recognizing Joy in the Practice 
    
        2024-06-28
            Reflections Inquiry Exploration Eating Instructions 
    
        2012-11-03
            Refuge 
    
        2019-07-29
            Relationships 
    
        2015-12-24
            Renunciation
 
    
        2016-07-31
            Renunciation 
    
        2011-02-26
            Resting The Weary Heart And Mind 
    
        2022-07-08
            Samadhi 
    
        2024-07-31
            Samadhi 
    
        2020-02-21
            Samadhi and its Role in Cultivating the Eight-Fold Path - Meditation 
    
        2020-02-21
            Samadhi and its Role in Cultivating the Eight-Fold Path - Talk 
    
        2023-03-18
            Settling into the body 
    
        2015-12-18
            Seven Factors Of Awakening
 
    
        2016-01-13
            Seven Factors of Awakening 
    
        2023-03-20
            Seven factors of awakening 
    
        2025-02-21
            Seven Factors of Awakening 
    
        2024-06-29
            Sitting and Walking Meditation With Instructions 
    
        2024-06-30
            Sitting Meditation With Instructions 
    
        2024-06-29
            Sitting Medition And Reflections Inquiry Exploration 
    
        2024-06-28
            Sitting Walking Meditation 
    
        2018-07-29
            Somatic approach to Metta practice. 
    
        2019-03-18
            Somatic Metta Meditation 
    
        2024-06-28
            Standing Qigong And Sitting Practice 
    
        2018-01-21
            Teachings On Instructions On Thoughts 
    
        2016-02-14
            The Awakening Factor of Viriya (effort/energy) 
    
        2008-08-05
            The Dharma of Global Climate Change 
    
        2013-07-30
            The Dharma Of Global Climate Change 
    
        2011-07-30
            The Five Hindrances 
    
        2020-03-12
            The Five Hindrances 
    
        2022-08-01
            The four noble truths 
    
        2018-10-10
            The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-06-02
            The heart at home in the body 
    
        2024-01-10
            The heart at home in the body 
    
        2011-10-08
            The Illusion Of Not Good Enough 
    
        2016-03-22
            The illusion of not good enough. 
    
        2019-02-16
            The Importance of the Body in our Practice 
    
        2006-07-02
            The Inner Critic 
    
        2017-02-22
            The intersection of Wisdom and Compassion
 
    
        2023-02-18
            The Relative and Absolute vView of Reality 
    
        2023-02-22
            The Seven Factors of Awakening 
    
        2018-07-30
            The Three Characteristics 
    
        2006-08-17
            The Three Pillars Of The Dharma 
    
        2010-01-20
            The Understanding and Practice Of Sila 
    
        2020-03-13
            Thoughts 
    
        2025-02-11
            Three Characteristics 
    
        2010-06-25
            Three Ways To Do Metta 
    
        2017-06-14
            Understanding and Working with Anger 
    
        2018-01-02
            Understanding and Working With Dukkha 
    
        2015-01-17
            Understanding Judgement and Discernment 
    
        2017-07-29
            Understanding the trap of wanting and not wanting.  
    
        2011-07-03
            Using Human Relationship As Dharma Practice 
    
        2020-03-04
            Using The Body As Anchor (with Matthew Hepburn) 
    
        2017-02-24
            Using the Body to Understand the Three Universal Characteristics 
    
        2024-08-02
            Vedana / feeling tone 
    
        2022-07-07
            Vedana Instructions 
    
        2020-03-05
            Whole Body Breathing 
    
        2010-05-16
            Why Connect With What Is Difficult? 
    
        2010-08-01
            Wise Effort 
    
        2018-06-06
            Wise Effort 
    
        2024-02-20
            Wise Effort 
    
        2018-02-20
            Wise Intention 
    
        2023-05-24
            Wise Nourishment 
    
        2014-07-29
            Wise Speech and Wise Acrtion 
    
        2018-02-22
            Wise Speech, Action, and Livelihood 
    
        2018-03-18
            Wise View 
    
        2018-01-02
            Working With Mindfulness Of Thoughts 
    
        2019-02-18
            Working with the Hindrances 
    
        2017-02-20
            Working with the self critical mind 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Chas DiCapua's 63 retreats
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        2000-01-01
            Monthly Guest Dharma Talk 
    
        2000-01-01
            Weekly Dharma Series 
    
        2006-06-30
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2007-03-18
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2007-06-30
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2008-01-01
            January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2008-07-30
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2009-07-05
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2010-01-18
            IMS Staff Retreat 2010 
    
        2010-05-14
            Sacred Longing: The Transformation of Desire 
    
        2010-06-24
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2010-07-28
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2011-02-25
            Resting the Weary Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Weekend  
    
        2011-04-01
            The Freedom That Includes Everything: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2011-06-24
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2011-06-30
            Family Retreat 
    
        2011-07-27
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2011-09-10
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2012-07-25
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds  
    
        2012-10-20
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 2  
    
        2013-07-24
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds  
    
        2013-10-11
            Change: The Gateway To Freedom: A Daylong for Young Adults 
    
        2014-03-21
            Awareness, Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Weekend 
 
    
        2014-07-23
            Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
 
    
        2015-01-16
            Clear Mind, Open Heart: Insight Meditation Weekend 
    
        2015-02-13
            Winter 2015 
    
        2015-07-22
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2015-12-01
            December 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2016-02-12
            TCVC February 2016 retreat 
    
        2016-03-19
            Cultivating Discernment: Insight Meditation  
    
        2016-07-27
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds  
    
        2017-02-17
            TCVC winter 2017 
    
        2017-07-27
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2017-12-29
            Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat  
    
        2018-01-19
            Awareness, Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Weekend 
    
        2018-02-16
            Winter 2018 
    
        2018-02-16
            Winter 2018 retreat 
    
        2018-07-25
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds 
    
        2018-10-09
            Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation 
    
        2019-02-15
            Twin Cities Vipassana Collective 
    
        2019-03-16
            Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-07-24
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2019-09-20
            Meditation, Nature and Awareness 
    
        2020-02-14
            Winter 2020 
    
        2020-03-03
            The Seven Factors of Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2020-03-10
            Freedom Here & Now: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2020-10-19
            IMS Daily Dharma 2020 
    
        2020-11-10
            Finding True Refuge in Uncertain Times with Anushka Fernandopulle, Chas DiCapua… 
    
        2021-01-01
            IMS Daily Dharma 2021 
    
        2022-02-19
            TCVC Winter Retreat 2022 
    
        2022-07-05
            Stillness & Insight 
    
        2022-07-27
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2023-02-17
            TCVC February 2023 retreat 
    
        2023-03-17
            The Two Wings of the Dharma: Infusing Our Lives with Wisdom & Compassion 
    
        2023-06-01
            Your Life Is Your Practice 
    
        2023-07-26
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2024-01-08
            Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart 
    
        2024-02-18
            TCVC February 2024 
    
        2024-06-28
            Madison Vipassana Retreat 
    
        2024-07-28
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds 
    
        2025-02-06
            Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC 
    
        2025-02-16
            TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT 
    
        2025-07-26
            Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 25YA