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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to control.
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on the Kalakarama Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, in which the Buddha describes the quality of an awakened mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 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) 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) 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) 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)
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A meditative reflection followed by a silent sitting, ending with further reflections.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 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) This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 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) A guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation followed by silence, ending with further reflections.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
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