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Diana Clark's Dharma Talks
Diana Clark
Diana Clark, PhD, offers Dharma teachings grounded in many years of meditation practice, retreat experience, and study, as well as a deep trust in the Buddha’s path of peace and freedom. Her teaching invites people to discover greater ease, clarity, and freedom in the midst of ordinary life. Diana was trained as a retreat teacher by Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella. Her background also includes serving as a professor of Theravāda Buddhism at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and working as a cancer researcher. She has a PhD in biochemistry. These varied forms of practice, teaching, and inquiry inform an approach to the Dharma that is careful, experiential, and engaged with everyday life. More than a thousand of Diana’s talks and guided meditations are available at AudioDharma.org. Her website is DianaClarkDharma.org.
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2026-08-28 The Freedom of Simplicity 54:43
This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to control.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-22 Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience. 45:03
Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-21 When the Spell is Broken 47:53
This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion toward that experience, allowing greater freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-21 Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This 48:30
Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-20 Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want? 46:03
A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This reflection includes a lot of silence).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-15 Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda 45:53
This morning reflection invites a spacious, receptive awareness without looking for a particular experience or trying to make understanding happen.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-14 When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence 45:13
This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-14 Morning Reflection: Knowing Change 50:27
This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-13 Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine 48:09
This reflection explores the practice of meeting experience without turning it into "me" or "mine." It invites noticing the subtle movement from simple experience to identification with that experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-08 No Need to Look for Insights 52:57
Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

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