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.
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2020-12-31
"Circle of Benefactors"
2020-12-30
"Instruction and Guided Meditation on Vedana"
2021-01-01
"Letting Go, Love & Faith"
2020-12-28
"Radiating Metta"
2020-01-03
18 Movements Qi Gong (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-08-21
A Backpacker's Guide To The Dharma
2023-02-08
A New Look at the Four Noble Truths: Suffering Arising, Ceasing, and Inviting D…
2025-03-21
Aging, Illness, and Death
2022-12-31
An Appropriate Response (New Year's Eve Talk) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-05-19
An Appropriate Response: Teachings for Our Times
2025-11-03
Anicca: Impermanence
2021-11-08
Awakened Awareness
2024-11-21
Awareness Meditation
2022-08-21
Balancing energy on the path
2022-10-13
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-01-02
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-11
Body Metta Awareness
2024-10-11
Body Scan for Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-11-16
Body Scan with Loving Awareness
2021-02-20
Bright Faith and Wise Engagement
2025-04-28
Caring Figure Meditation
2025-03-12
Chanting Imaya Dhammanu and Karaniya Metta in Pali and English
2022-12-22
Choiceless Awareness and Big Sky Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-04-28
Cittanupassana (Mindfulness of Thoughts)
2024-10-15
Cittanupassana: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-30
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas
2022-10-09
Compassion: Teaching and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-03-22
Counting, This Morning, What Powers Still Remain to Me
2021-02-07
Courage and the Luminous Mind
2018-02-17
Day 21: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2025-03-08
Dharma Reflection - Beautiful Qualities of the Heart
2025-03-13
Dharma Reflection - The Two Benefits
2025-03-06
Dharma Reflection - To Be a Person
2025-03-28
Dharma Reflection: Dhamma Chanda
2025-03-20
Dharma Reflection: Four Brahma Viharas in Nature
2025-02-09
Doubt and Delusion
2023-03-15
Eddie Would Go
2024-03-03
Effortless Effort
2023-03-22
Elk, Bobcats, Porcupine, and Turkeys: Reflections on Nature and Metta
2023-10-13
Emptiness and Love
2025-11-09
Encouragement on the Path
2025-10-21
Energy and Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-10-13
Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-10-09
Equanimity and the Hindrances OR "Hello Little Nivarana", Evening Dharma Talk
2024-03-21
Equanimity is a Superpower
2025-10-13
Evening session: The Singing Lama, the Portal of Fear, and Shades of Joy
2022-12-19
Fear and Courage on the Path
2023-01-29
First morning Instructions and cell phone ceremony
2025-01-11
Generosity Is the Answer
2022-12-21
Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-10-11
Guided meditation and brief walking meditation instructions
2021-11-07
Guided Meditation on Anatta
2024-10-17
Guided Meditation on Attention and Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-11-18
Guided Meditation on Body, Vedana, Citta
2024-07-26
Guided Meditation on Six Sense Spheres
2022-12-30
Guided Meditation on Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-11-11
Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger
2023-12-18
Guided Meditation: Primary Anchors (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-30
Guided Meditation: Working with Hindrances, Emotions, and Other Difficulties (R…
2022-10-07
Hello Little Neurosis: Working with the Nivaranas (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-02-24
How Emptiness Reveals Love
2020-07-10
How Not to Be a Hot Mess
2025-01-02
How to Recognize Delusion
2024-12-20
How to Work with the Hindrances
2025-07-11
Impermanence
2024-08-18
Instructions for not giving up
2025-02-05
Instructions on Noting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-07-26
Introduction to Metta and Caring Moment Practice
2024-02-03
Introduction to the Brahma Viharas
2018-07-30
Joy
2024-05-13
Joy + Happiness on the Path
2024-06-08
June 8, 2024 Daylong with Devin Berry and devon hase: Patience Talk #2
2024-03-08
Karaniya Metta Sutta
2017-02-05
Kindness and Equanimity
2024-03-28
Like a Flower in the Sky
2024-03-07
Live Wire of Authenticity
2024-11-20
Love
2025-07-06
Love and Nature
2024-05-11
Lying Down Practice and Metta Body Scan
2025-10-11
Lying down somatic metta meditation
2020-07-26
Make Sex Good
2025-01-11
Making Our Home in Dana
2024-02-16
Meditation on Emotions and Awareness
2023-03-04
Metta and the Healing Power of Jhana
2024-12-29
Metta for a Benefactor
2022-08-22
Metta for a friend
2023-08-21
Metta For A Friend
2025-04-29
Metta for All Beings
2022-08-19
Metta For The Body
2024-08-16
Metta for the body
2024-12-19
Metta for the Body
2025-04-26
Metta for the Body
2025-02-06
Metta for Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-08-19
Metta in relationships
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for a Benefactor
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for a Difficult Person
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for a Friend
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for All Beings
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for Strangers
2023-10-19
Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for Yourself
2025-01-01
Metta: Loving Ourselves Back into Wholeness
2024-03-09
Miguel's Dignity
2024-07-25
Mindfulness and the Wisdom the Knows What To Do
2025-08-20
Mindfulness of Body, Breath and Sound
2024-08-17
Mindfulness of body, breath, and sound
2025-10-24
Mindfulness of Breathing
2025-05-18
Mindfulness of Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-12-21
Mindfulness of Citta: Third Foundation
2024-02-03
Mindfulness of Eating
2024-02-07
Mindfulness of Emotions
2024-05-12
Mindfulness of Emotions
2025-10-29
Mindfulness of Emotions
2023-12-21
Mindfulness of Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-02-12
Mindfulness of Strong Emotions
2025-04-26
Mindfulness of the Body with Vedana
2024-02-04
Mindfulness of the Breath and Mindfulness of Sounds
2025-08-23
Mindfulness of Thinking
2022-08-23
Mindfulness of thoughts
2024-08-20
Mindfulness of thoughts
2022-12-20
Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-03-08
More Reflections on Beauty
2023-10-10
Morning Guided Meditation on Vedana
2022-08-20
Morning instructions, working with hindrances
2023-03-08
Morning Reflection: Natural Compassion
2023-03-17
Morning Reflection: One Serious Story and One Funny Story
2023-03-20
Morning Reflection: Your Open Empty Heart
2023-03-24
Morning Reflections on Faith and Metta
2025-10-14
Morning session: Equanimity
2025-10-12
Morning session: karuna, guided meditation, small group instructions
2025-10-13
Morning session: Mudita
2024-01-01
Mudita: Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-12-18
Nivaranas Dharmette (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-11-11
Nov 11, 2023 Daylong with devon hase: Paramis as Path Talk #1
2023-11-11
Nov 11, 2023 Daylong with devon hase: Paramis as Path Talk #2
2023-08-20
On Bumpy Roads and Muddy Trails: reflections on tranquility
2023-10-14
Open Awareness Meditation
2025-10-10
Opening Session pt 1
2025-10-10
Opening session pt 2
2024-03-01
Ordinary Love
2025-10-11
Ordinary Love
2025-11-05
Paradoxes of Practice
2025-02-16
Piti and Passaddhi
2021-06-02
Practice as Relationship
2018-07-31
Practice In Daily Life
2023-03-14
Practicing in daily life
2023-01-31
Qi Gong - 18 Movements
2021-02-21
Qigong & Guided Nature of Mind Meditation
2023-01-02
Questions and Answers about Home Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-29
Radiating Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-20
Reaching for a Pillow in the Darkness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-08-22
Receiving Care
2023-12-19
Receiving Care (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-28
Receiving Care (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-10-20
Receiving Care Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-13
Receiving Metta from the Earth
2023-03-07
Reflection on Metta + Wisdom
2025-11-01
Reflections on Cetana: Intentions
2025-04-25
Reflections on Confidence
2024-08-21
Reflections on Generosity
2023-09-19
Reflections on Wise Attitude
2024-11-17
Refuge in Dhamma
2025-11-10
Refuge in Dhamma
2023-08-06
Relationship as the Dharma Path
2023-03-12
Reminders about working with difficulty and mindfulness of thinking
2025-07-14
Resiliency: Grief, Equanimity, and Joy
2023-03-10
Right attitude
2024-12-30
Sampajañña: Clearly Knowing
2025-05-28
Sampajanna: The Wisdom That Knows What To Do (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-02-17
Short Satipatthana Reflection
2025-02-08
Sīla as a Path of Meaningful Connection
2024-12-09
Spiritual Power: Growing Strong Through Sangha
2022-10-10
Spiritual Urgency and Love: Reflections on ardor, energy, and the wisdom that k…
2023-06-01
Still Flowing Water: Reflections on Nature, Intimacy, and the Power of Accompan…
2025-10-18
Suffering and the End of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-10-18
Tatramajjatata: Standing Steady in the Storm (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-03-30
Tattoos on the Heart
2024-07-27
Teaching on Emotions and Guided Meditation on RAIN
2025-02-09
Teachings on Second and Third Foundations of Mindfulness
2025-05-27
Techniques for Accessing Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-31
The Beauty of the Dhamma
2020-01-01
The Determination of Caterpillars
2023-01-31
The Four Noble truths
2025-02-02
The Gradual Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-05-11
The Long Perfect Loveliness of Sow: A Talk on Metta
2025-04-27
The Magic of Mindfulness
2023-08-23
The parami of generosity
2025-11-17
The River of Conditionality
2025-11-19
The Sacred Slowness: Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice
2024-02-15
The Second Music
2025-10-27
The Second Music
2023-10-11
The Wisdom of Compassion, Afternoon Sit with Instructions
2024-10-14
There Are No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-12-31
Third Foundation: Mindfulness of Citta (the heart-mind)
2024-03-02
Three Honorings
2024-03-29
To Be a Person
2024-09-14
Toward a Refuge of Belonging
2025-05-23
Turn, Recognize, Rest (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-03-29
Untangling the Tangle: On Dependent Co-Arising and Freedom
2023-10-14
Upekkha: Abiding in Equanimity
2025-10-19
Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-10-08
Vedanā: Teaching and Guided Meditation
2025-05-22
Whole-Hearted Response: What Remains In Emptiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-06
Wholeness and the Four Noble Truths
2025-04-29
Wisdom
2025-04-12
Wisdom in Action: Mindfulness and Sampajanna on the Path to Liberation
2025-03-15
Wise Intention
2023-02-01
Working with emotions
2023-01-03
Working with Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-01-21
Your Garden Grows at Midnight
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Select one of Devon Hase's 42 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2017-02-03
Cultivating Discernment: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-01-27
February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-07-25
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2018-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-12-27
New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-12-28
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat with Eugene Cash, Pamela Weiss, Tuere Sal…
2021-02-18
Natural Radiance: Exploring the Liberating Nature of Awareness with Mark Colema…
2021-11-03
Settling, Seeing, and Luminous Awareness
2022-01-26
Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha
2022-08-18
Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-10-05
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-12-17
Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Li…
2022-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-01-28
Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2023-03-01
March 2023
2023-03-08
Cultivating Awareness and Wisdom
2023-05-30
Awake in the Wild
2023-08-17
Your Life Is Your Practice
2023-10-07
Fall Insight 2023
2023-12-17
Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Li…
2023-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-02-02
Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love
2024-02-12
Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times
2024-03-01
March 2024
2024-05-10
Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat
2024-08-15
Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-10-10
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-11-15
Natural Radiance: Exploring the Freedom of Awareness
2024-12-18
Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
2024-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-02-01
2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-03-01
March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2025-04-24
Simplicity and Stillness
2025-05-17
The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students
2025-08-18
Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25NL
2025-10-10
Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults
2025-10-10
Remembering Each Other Always (LB1C25)
2025-10-16
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-10-23
Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
2025-02-08
Sīla as a Path of Meaningful Connection
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This talk explores sīla (moral conduct) as both foundation and ongoing practice in Buddhism. Devon emphasizes the paradox of sīla—it's both a starting point and something continuously cultivated in each moment. She discusses how integrity requires balancing self-compassion with engagement in the world, using the metaphor of mountain wildflowers that are both tender and strong. The talk highlights how sīla provides resilience during difficult times, allowing practitioners to remain connected to goodness while confronting suffering without bypassing or burning out.
Refuge of Belonging
