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
Morning Instructions: Deepening of Trust	Andrea Fella	2022.07.30	54:33	54:33 2022.07.30
Morning Instruction: Noting Emotions & Mental States in Equanimity/Upekkhā	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.14	42:03	42:03 2022.07.14
Evening Reflection: Well-Enough Joy (Radiating Muditā/Inclusive Joy for All)	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.13	30:20	30:20 2022.07.13
Dharma Talk: Muditā is Undoing Harm & Harming (The Tender Heart is to be Celebrated)	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.13	1:04:07	1:04:07 2022.07.13
Morning Instruction: Mindfulness of Body in Movements & Karunā	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.12	46:15	46:15 2022.07.12
Evening Reflection: Mettā for Self Meditation	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.11	28:29	28:29 2022.07.11
Dharma Talk: Choose Mettā (with the First Noble Truth)	Rev. Liên Shutt	2022.07.11	57:57	57:57 2022.07.11
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