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
Sila and Our Debt to Others	Matthew Brensilver	2023.11.04	49:41	49:41 2023.11.04
Q&A and Closing	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.11.04	22:51	22:51 2023.11.04
Guided meditation 3 - Abiding in the Body	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.11.04	21:53	21:53 2023.11.04
Guided meditation 2 - Coming home to the body during transitions	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.11.04	33:12	33:12 2023.11.04
Coming home to the body introduction, guided meditation, walking meditation instructions	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.11.04	48:21	48:21 2023.11.04
Friday Morning Instructions	Matthew Brensilver	2023.11.03	38:39	38:39 2023.11.03
Wednesday morning instructions	Matthew Brensilver	2023.11.01	45:11	45:11 2023.11.01
Intensity, Feeling, Thinking as Coping, Insight	Matthew Brensilver	2023.10.31	46:10	46:10 2023.10.31
Morning Instructions: Body and Breath	Max Erdstein	2023.10.31	45:15	45:15 2023.10.31
Morning Instructions: Landing in the body breathing	Matthew Brensilver	2023.10.30	53:47	53:47 2023.10.30
Dharma Talk: Befriending, Discerning and Inconstancy	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	24:28	24:28 2023.10.07
Guided Sitting #6	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	35:14	35:14 2023.10.07
Guided Sitting #5	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	45:05	45:05 2023.10.07
Guided Sitting #4: Absence of Unwholesome Roots	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	30:26	30:26 2023.10.07
Guided Sitting #3 and Dharmette: Discerning States of Mind	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	45:24	45:24 2023.10.07
Guided Sitting #2: Attitude towards Experience	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	45:08	45:08 2023.10.07
Befriending Experience: Introduction, Dharmette & Guided Meditation Walking Meditation Guidance	Liz Powell	2023.10.07	51:30	51:30 2023.10.07
Wishing All Beings Ease	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.09.04	16:46	16:46 2023.09.04
Bedtime Story of Metta at Airport	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.09.03	28:58	28:58 2023.09.03
Boundary-less Metta, Self and Not-Self, Forgiveness	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.09.03	51:40	51:40 2023.09.03
Metta for the Neutral Being	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.09.03	40:40	40:40 2023.09.03
Metta and the Brahma Viharas, plus the Hindrances	Nikki Mirghafori	2023.09.02	59:21	59:21 2023.09.02
Saturday Dharma Talk final session	bruni dávila	2023.09.02	1:03:36	1:03:36 2023.09.02
Afternoon session 2	bruni dávila	2023.09.02	38:14	38:14 2023.09.02
Saturday Sitting meditation	bruni dávila	2023.09.02	37:12	37:12 2023.09.02