Welcome to Insight Retreat Center Dharma Talks

This site is an archive of Dharma talks given during retreats at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.

Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom.

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All Talks

Title	Speaker	Date	Length	Length/ Date
Developing our Dharma Stories	Matthew Brensilver	2022.06.22	46:13	46:13 2022.06.22
Tuesday Sit with Instructions: Affect and Meaning-making	Matthew Brensilver	2022.06.21	43:03	43:03 2022.06.21
Monday Dharma Talk: Relationship between the Body and Thinking	Matthew Brensilver	2022.06.20	47:16	47:16 2022.06.20
Sunday Evening Reflection	Matthew Brensilver	2022.06.19	11:51	11:51 2022.06.19
Dharmette on Retreat Theme: Thought & Freedom	Matthew Brensilver	2022.06.18	22:32	22:32 2022.06.18
Wise Effort: Prevent	Gulwinder (Gullu) Singh	2022.04.18	43:43	43:43 2022.04.18
Dharma Talk: Resolved on Peace and Third Noble Truth	Gil Fronsdal	2022.03.25	39:38	39:38 2022.03.25
Wednesday Evening Reflection	Gil Fronsdal	2022.03.23	00:00	00:00 2022.03.23
Dharma Talk: Resolved on Truth and Second Noble Truths	Gil Fronsdal	2022.03.23	40:51	40:51 2022.03.23
Monday Evening reflection	Gil Fronsdal	2022.03.21	05:29	05:29 2022.03.21
Dharma talk: Four Resolves and Four Noble truths	Gil Fronsdal	2022.03.21	59:49	59:49 2022.03.21
Saturday Sitting with Evening Reflections on radiating metta and letting go Details	Tanya Wiser	2022.02.19	07:10	07:10 2022.02.19
The Two Practices of Cultivation and Letting go	Diana Clark	2022.02.19	47:17	47:17 2022.02.19
Guided Meditation: Radiating Metta for All Beings	Nikki Mirghafori	2022.02.19	59:00	59:00 2022.02.19
Friday Sitting with Evening Reflections: Rilke Poem	Nikki Mirghafori	2022.02.18	05:22	05:22 2022.02.18
Forgiveness for Self and Others	Nikki Mirghafori	2022.02.18	1:01:42	1:01:42 2022.02.18
Metta for the Difficult Person	Diana Clark	2022.02.18	58:20	58:20 2022.02.18
Thursday Sitting with Evening Reflections on how just over the edge of suffering lies a field of wellbeing Details	Tanya Wiser	2022.02.17	16:28	16:28 2022.02.17
Common Humanity and the Four Brahma Viharas	Nikki Mirghafori	2022.02.17	1:00:34	1:00:34 2022.02.17
Guided Meditation: Reflections on Sonder & Metta for the Neutral Being	Nikki Mirghafori	2022.02.17	57:49	57:49 2022.02.17
Wednesday Sitting with Evening Reflections on resting in the nest of metta and wanting to be loved Details	Tanya Wiser	2022.02.16	09:33	09:33 2022.02.16
The Malleability of our Hearts and Minds	Diana Clark	2022.02.16	42:50	42:50 2022.02.16
Metta for Oneself for the second day	Diana Clark	2022.02.16	58:51	58:51 2022.02.16
Tuesday Sitting with Evening Reflections on weaving a nest of metta	Tanya Wiser	2022.02.15	10:28	10:28 2022.02.15
Hindrances and Difficulties with Metta Practice	Diana Clark	2022.02.15	54:39	54:39 2022.02.15