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
Saturday Dharma Talk: The Three Refuges as a support towards liberation	JD Doyle	2021.12.18	45:35	45:35 2021.12.18
Saturday Sit with instructions	Mary Grace Orr	2021.12.18	42:55	42:55 2021.12.18
Friday Sitting - Metta Meditation: Reconciling Life	Bob Stahl	2021.12.17	38:54	38:54 2021.12.17
Friday Dharma Talk - Coloring Outside the Lines	Mary Grace Orr	2021.12.17	43:12	43:12 2021.12.17
Friday Sit with instructions and announcements: Mindfulness of Mind States	Bob Stahl	2021.12.17	46:27	46:27 2021.12.17
Thursday Sitting - Metta Meditation	Yasmina Porter	2021.12.16	26:43	26:43 2021.12.16
Thursday Dharma Talk: The Buddha's sojourn of Awakening: Heart of the Dhamma	Bob Stahl	2021.12.16	50:04	50:04 2021.12.16
Thursday Meditation with instructions on Vedana and announcements	JD Doyle	2021.12.16	43:15	43:15 2021.12.16
Wednesday Guided Metta Meditation: The Story of how this Practice Originated & Resting in the Heart	Bob Stahl	2021.12.15	29:55	29:55 2021.12.15
Wednesday Dharma Talk: Buddha's Teachings to Rahula - Exploring Wise Reflection Details	JD Doyle	2021.12.15	44:14	44:14 2021.12.15
Wednesday Sit with instructions and announcements	Mary Grace Orr	2021.12.15	44:12	44:12 2021.12.15
Tuesday Dharma Talk - Waiting	Mary Grace Orr	2021.12.14	41:21	41:21 2021.12.14
Tuesday Sit with instructions and announcements	Bob Stahl	2021.12.14	53:21	53:21 2021.12.14
What Brings Us to Practice: The Heavenly Messengers	Bob Stahl	2021.12.13	38:27	38:27 2021.12.13
Five Faculties: Energy and Concentration	Shelley Gault	2021.12.11	37:29	37:29 2021.12.11
5 Faculties: Confidence and Wisdom	Ines Freedman	2021.12.10	48:35	48:35 2021.12.10
Talk: Satipatthana Journey to Non-Clinging	Gil Fronsdal	2021.12.03	54:38	54:38 2021.12.03
Thursday Dharma Talk	Andrea Fella	2021.12.02	1:00:21	1:00:21 2021.12.02
Wednesday evening Reflection	Andrea Fella	2021.12.01	11:28	11:28 2021.12.01
Dharma Talk: The Satipatthana Refrain and Change	Gil Fronsdal	2021.12.01	57:48	57:48 2021.12.01
Monday Sitting Meditation with Reflections	Andrea Fella	2021.11.29	09:07	09:07 2021.11.29
Talk: Attention Leads to Lucid Awareness	Gil Fronsdal	2021.11.29	50:32	50:32 2021.11.29
Sunday Opening the Meditation Hall: Sitting Meditation and Dharmette	Gil Fronsdal, Andrea Fella	2021.11.28	52:46	52:46 2021.11.28
Not self (Anatta)	bruni dávila	2021.11.20	53:25	53:25 2021.11.20
Suffering (Dukkha)	Gil Fronsdal	2021.11.19	58:26	58:26 2021.11.19