Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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Aishah Shahidah Simmons: What Keeps Us From Knowing We Are Free
Jun 19, 2026
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Tara Mulay: Mindfulness of Emotions and Mind-States
Jun 5, 2026
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Carol Wilson: Some Benefits of Continuity of Awareness
May 26, 2026
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Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness
May 25, 2026
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Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Gone To The Body
May 23, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/19/26 | Aishah Shahidah Simmons: What Keeps Us From Knowing We Are Free | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this talk, Aishah Shahidah Simmons explores the Buddha's teaching on the Five Hindrances — Sensual Desire, Ill Will, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness and Worry, and Doubt — drawing on the Saṅgārava Sutta's water similes, the lineage of Sayagyi U Bha Kin through Rev. Dr. Leon E. Wright, and the words of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde. Offered through a BIPOC lens on Juneteenth, this teaching invites recognizing the hindrances with tenderness, not self-judgment, as a lifetime's practice toward liberation. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | Tara Mulay: Mindfulness of Emotions and Mind-States | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes instructions on 6-Part walking meditation at the end. | — | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | Carol Wilson: Some Benefits of Continuity of Awareness | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view. | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions: Emotions and brief description of Choiceless Awareness | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) | — | ||||||
| 5/23/26 | Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Gone To The Body | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness | — | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Four dimensions of contemplative practice. | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner: (i) Calming & stabilzing (ii) Dis-identification and decentering (iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation (iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal | — | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | Yuka Nakamura: Open awareness and awareness of awareness | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions | — | ||||||
| 5/17/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: Cittānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhāna Channels
Guided exercise on practicing with citta states. | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience. Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories. Relationship between these channels. Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice. Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods. The ending of something as an easy connection point to citta-states. | — | ||||||
| 5/16/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Dimensions of Not-Knowing (the bad kind) and possible antidotes | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Breakdown of types of ignorance in Buddhist teaching. Unpacking some of the terms avijjā and moha. Sketching their different use in the old texts despite their occasional synonymous use. Excursions into conditionality. | — | ||||||
| 5/16/26 | Yuka Nakamura: Mindfulness of feeling tones (vedanā) | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions | — | ||||||
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| 5/15/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Guided Mettā Meditation (no phrases) | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 40 Mins of mettā practice with aspects of compassion and forgiveness. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Morning reflections: Ways of getting lost. Where do we go when the hindrances take over?
Followed by guided meditation practice. | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What happens when I'm *not* mindful? (i) Loss of fluency in our attention — (ii) Loss of the here & now (iii) Loss of the space: collapsing into things. (iv) Loss of embodiment (vI) Loss of the other | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Hindrances – a glance at the list of troubles and how they manifest . | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hindrances – a glance at the list of troubles and how they manifest . The different starting points of Buddhist and Western psychology. The Buddhas vision of freedom Different types of troubles: soteriological hindrances (samyojana), afflictions (kilesa), inflations (āsava). A detailed look at the 5 nivāraṇa, the five psychological obstacles to the cultivation of stillness as the basis for insight and understanding. The phenomenology of their manifestation. | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | Yuka Nakamura: Guided Metta meditation | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation on friendliness and kindness | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | Yuka Nakamura: Settling into the body, establishing a mindful connection | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning instructions | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Instruction: Intro to posture and contemplation of the body. Guided practice with 6 senses. | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Detailed advice on posture, sitting and connecting with the body. Followed by guided body contemplation exercise using the 6 sense channels. | — | ||||||
| 4/29/26 | Jessica Morey: Mettā and the Path of Awakening | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how mettā and the brahmaviharās are both means and ends on the path to liberation — the very ground that allows insight to arise, and the natural expression of the freedom that results. | — | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | Jessica Morey: Metta for the Body | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation metta body scan and QA | — | ||||||
| 4/27/26 | Oren Jay Sofer: The Joy That Belongs to Everyone | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Joy is not a break from meeting the world's pain — it's what makes it possible to keep meeting it. An exploration of mudita, appreciative joy, and the many ways the heart can learn to rejoice. | — | ||||||
| 4/26/26 | Jessica Morey: Compassion and Empathy | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What does it mean to let suffering touch you without being consumed by it? This talk traces a path from empathy through grief to the inexhaustible compassion of the bodhisattva — and offers practical steps for cultivating it from the inside out. | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | Jessica Morey: Receiving Care from Benefactor Meditation + QA | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Receiving care meditation and QA | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | Oren Jay Sofer: Metta Instructions + Guided Meditation (Benefactor) | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introducing metta practice | — | ||||||
| 4/19/26 | Roxanne Dault: Every Moment Is Precious: This Very Life Is Our Practice | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What matters is what we cultivate, how we care and how we respond | — | ||||||
| 4/18/26 | Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning Instructions | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) | — | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | Aishah Shahidah Simmons: A Different Doorway: Mettā and the Difficult Person | (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) a dharmette and guided sit on opening the heart toward those who are difficult to hold. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
12 placements across 12 markets.
Chart Positions
12 placements across 12 markets.