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Devon Hase's Dharma Talks
Devon Hase
devon hase has practiced intensively in the insight and vajrayana traditions since discovering meditation in 2000. After a decade of bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms, she entered several years of silent, solitary retreat in the mountains of Oregon. She now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Forest Refuge, and serves as co-guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. Devon supports practitioners in both long and short retreats, as well as through personal mentoring, with an emphasis on relational practice and connection to the natural world. Along with her life partner, nico, she co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess and the forthcoming This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership (2026). Learn more at devonandnicohase.com.
2024-03-08 Karaniya Metta Sutta 11:51
Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-08 More Reflections on Beauty 12:02
Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-07 Live Wire of Authenticity 50:16
A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-03 Effortless Effort 14:42
Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-02 Three Honorings 47:42
Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-01 Ordinary Love 48:11
Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-02-16 Meditation on Emotions and Awareness 59:07
Teachings on RAIN and holding it all with awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2024-02-15 The Second Music 54:47
Reflections on love, devotion, and finding truth through the Three Characteristics.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2024-02-13 Receiving Metta from the Earth 42:28
Teachings on Brahma Vihara practice and guided Receiving Care meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2024-02-07 Mindfulness of Emotions 52:48
Reflections and guided practice on the third foundation of Mindfulness of the Heart-Mind (Cittanupassana).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love

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