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
Transforming Delusion into Equanimity	Ines Freedman, Shelley Gault	2023.07.22	48:16	48:16 2023.07.22
Saturday Morning Instructions - Thinking	Shelley Gault	2023.07.22	50:39	50:39 2023.07.22
Friday Evening Reflections	Ines Freedman	2023.07.21	03:53	03:53 2023.07.21
Transforming Aversion / iIl Will into Wisdom	Shelley Gault	2023.07.21	45:55	45:55 2023.07.21
Friday Morning Instructions - Emotions	Ines Freedman	2023.07.21	49:21	49:21 2023.07.21
Thursday Evening Reflection	Shelley Gault	2023.07.20	05:20	05:20 2023.07.20
Transforming Desire/Greed into Confidence	Ines Freedman	2023.07.20	43:30	43:30 2023.07.20
Walking Meditation Instruction	Ines Freedman	2023.07.20	14:47	14:47 2023.07.20
Thursday Morning Instructions - Breath/Body	Shelley Gault	2023.07.20	48:38	48:38 2023.07.20
Wednesday Formal Opening	Ines Freedman, Shelley Gault	2023.07.19	1:02:07	1:02:07 2023.07.19
Simplicity as Support	Diana Clark	2023.07.15	1:00:26	1:00:26 2023.07.15
Kisa Gotami and the Three Characteristics	Diana Clark	2023.07.13	54:54	54:54 2023.07.13
Mindfulness of Thinking	Anushka Fernandopulle	2023.07.13	49:38	49:38 2023.07.13
Dhamma Cultivation: Skillful and Unskillful Intentions	Anushka Fernandopulle	2023.07.12	52:48	52:48 2023.07.12
Ratthapala and the Four Summaries of the Dharma	Diana Clark	2023.07.11	58:12	58:12 2023.07.11
Mindfulness of Bodily Experience	Anushka Fernandopulle	2023.07.11	24:13	24:13 2023.07.11
Dharma as Nature	Anushka Fernandopulle	2023.07.10	54:46	54:46 2023.07.10
Notes on mindfulness of eating	Anushka Fernandopulle	2023.07.10	08:59	08:59 2023.07.10
Last Day Instructions: The Surface is Deep	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.17	40:36	40:36 2023.06.17
Angulimala and Quetzalcoatl: The Long Road to Freedom	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.16	58:16	58:16 2023.06.16
Long Metta Chanting	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.15	07:23	07:23 2023.06.15
6-Sense-Door Guided Metta Practice	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.14	42:40	42:40 2023.06.14
The Four Guardian Meditations: Purification through the Highs and Lows of the Practice	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.14	1:01:01	1:01:01 2023.06.14
Morning Instructions: Foundational Vipassana Instructions	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.13	53:56	53:56 2023.06.13
A Raft in the Flood: Stability and Suffering in the Search for Security	Jesse Maceo Vega Frey	2023.06.12	56:31	56:31 2023.06.12