Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awaren ...
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The teachings of the Buddha (Dharma) and the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and loving-kindness meditation (metta) are at the heart of all the programs we offer at Spirit Rock. Practicing Insight Meditation develops mindfulness, the capacity to pay attention to each moment of life and to see clearly the truth of our experience. Studying the Dharma provides insights into the conditions that define and limit our experience of life. And cultivating an attitude of loving-kindness al ...
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allow ...
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Enjoy Dharma's guided visualizations, meditations, yogic insights, mystic musings, and more!
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Do you have a strong sense that there’s something more? More to reality? More to you? Do you feel the weight of your childhood and cultural conditioning and despite having worked to shrug it off, see that it somehow remains? Do you intuit that the world could be a much healthier place? Have you learned about and tried different practices only to dead-end, leaving you to wonder, “Is this it?” Have the models you’ve learned left things out, left your deepest questions unanswered? The emotospir ...
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Who Needs Identity? (HOS97)
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The nature and usefulness of identity is our topic today. Does the soul have an identity between lives? Is there such a thing as healthy conditioning? How is Yin Divinity affecting the fragility of identity and the emergence of soul? We also discuss the challenge of relating to Edenity in a testing mode that requires neither belief nor disbelief, a…
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Mystery 2
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this second talk on practicing with mystery, we begin by talking more generally about the nature of mystery. We then review seven ways of practicing with mystery explored last week, while bringing in further examples of these ways of practicing, and add an additional two further ways of practicing. Reading of poem…
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation on Practicing with Mystery
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a fairly lightly guided meditation on ways to practice with a sense of mystery, linked with the talk on this theme. After grounding in posture and intentions, basic instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then in mindfulness, are given, with later periodic suggestions on ways to practice w…
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Jack Kornfield: A Labor of Love
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door Jack Kornfield
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Nathan Glyde: Feeling Our Way To Freedom
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(Gaia House) There is a felt sense of being more free (samadhi), we can use this as a way to return to, and deepen into the freedom that is possible for us. This shapes the ethical behaviour that expands freedom even more, and the deepening understanding of our perception of reality as we liberate it. All the aspects of the paths converge into free…
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The Rise & Fall of Nondual Seeking (HOS96)
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We complete this recent, slightly interrupted series on Sagehood today with an unapologetic (see what I did there) comparison of various forms of eastern transcendental metaphysics and Edenity’s own Sagehood dharma. Topics include Edenity’s assertion of what we call the “pre-dual” versus the nondual, a key difference between awakening in men and wo…
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Grace Fisher: Teachers and Teachings and Llamas
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)Door Grace Fisher
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Mystery 1
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inviting a sense of mystery as we practice can bring further aliveness, presence, and openness, and help us go beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and practicing. In the talk, we explore seven ways of practicing with mystery, with the aid of a number of poems. The talk is followed by discussion.…
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Tuere Sala: Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door Tuere Sala
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Tuere Sala: The Intersection of Compassion and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door Tuere Sala
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Greg Scharf: The Confluence of Freedom and Love
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A short reflection on the interconnected nature of freedom and love on the Buddha's path of awakening, followed by a guided meditation.Door Greg Scharf
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An Apology for Arrogance (HOS95)
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It’s been four months since we recorded and we are "forward." Thank you for your patience. Stace and I both were traveling at different times, I got Covid at one point, and various other things got in the way, but we are forging onward and it felt really great to record this one. Not only did you have to wait four months for us to complete the seri…
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Grace Fisher: Friends, Allies and our True Home
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk. (Group discussion has been omitted.)Door Grace Fisher
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John Martin: Metta for Neutral Being: Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door John Martin
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Heidi Bourne : Reclaiming our Strength with the 5 Spiritual Faculties ~ Today's Focus: Concentration & Wisdom
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation, dharma talk, & 1 featured practice question. (All other group discussion has been omitted).Door Heidi Bourne
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Tuere Sala: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta for a close friend or family member.Door Tuere Sala
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Amana Brembry Johnson: Grief: A Portal Into Living Life Fully
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door Amana Brembry Johnson
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John Martin: Metta Easy Being: Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is a first day instruction for metta practice, and emphasizes the mechanics of the practice.Door John Martin
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Sally Armstrong: "What We Can Learn from Comfort, Discomfort & Overwhelm"
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In our meditation and our lives, we are often cycling between three states of comfort, discomfort and overwhelm. Learning how to work skillfully with each of these states presents an opportunity for growth.Door Sally Armstrong
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Tuere Sala: Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Door Tuere Sala
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Devon Hase: Instructions for not giving up
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on Viriya (energy) and KantiDoor Devon Hase
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Matthew Hepburn, Narayan Helen Liebenson: Guided Instructions: Feeling tone (Vedana)
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions for bringing the second foundation of mindfulness to secondary objects of attention. Day three of Retreat.Door Matthew Hepburn
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Tuere Sala: The Two Wings of the Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Evening Dhamma TalkDoor Tuere Sala
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Matthew Hepburn: Guided instructions: loving-kindness (Metta) for self
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Door Matthew Hepburn
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Devon Hase: Mindfulness of body, breath, and sound
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introduction to Satipatthana practice and a guided meditation on using body, breath, and sound as primary anchorsDoor Devon Hase
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Devon Hase: Metta for the body
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short teaching and guided metta meditation cultivating appreciation for the bodyDoor Devon Hase
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Deborah Ratner Helzer: Following the predominant object
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions for "choice awareness" from the Mahasi perspectiveDoor Deborah Ratner Helzer
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Mark Nunberg: Morning practice instruction: mindfulness of intention
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Door Mark Nunberg
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Deborah Ratner Helzer: Relative and absolute
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What are these two layers of reality and how do we relate to them in life and meditation?Door Deborah Ratner Helzer
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Tara Mulay: Morning instructions on practicing with vedana
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Door Tara Mulay
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Mark Nunberg: How Metta supports Insight practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Door Mark Nunberg
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Greg Scharf: Walking the Path
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eight-fold Path as a framework for understanding the unfolding of practice.Door Greg Scharf
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Deborah Ratner Helzer: Morning Instructions – thinking
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some suggestions for noting and noticing thoughtsDoor Deborah Ratner Helzer
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Deborah Ratner Helzer: Beginning lovingkindness practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connecting with a sense of caring for oneself and a benefactor figureDoor Deborah Ratner Helzer
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Deborah Ratner Helzer: Introduction to the Mahasi method
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some history and key features of Mahasi style practice: working with primary objects, noting, momentary concentration, and balanced effortDoor Deborah Ratner Helzer
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Nathan Glyde: The Me in Mettā Matters
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(Gaia House) Exploring the contradistinctions between the not-self strategy and radiant goodwill to all beings. And how we can put more of our personal care into the practice. Based on an insight from Thānissaro Bhikku in Good Mind, Good Heart. This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded …
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Greg Scharf: Mindfulness Directed to the Mind
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the Third Establishment of MindfulnessDoor Greg Scharf
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Sayadaw U Jagara: Reflections: All the 7 Bojjhangas in one moment
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How, from an initial arousal, the awakening factors mature to insight into the 5 aggregates of existenceDoor Sayadaw U Jagara
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Nathan Glyde: Caring Goodwill Radiant All Around (a mettā practice)
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(Gaia House)Door Nathan Glyde
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Nathan Glyde: The Wisdom of Caring
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(Gaia House)Door Nathan Glyde
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Zohar Lavie: Opening, Nourishing & Gladdening - Meditation Instruction
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(Gaia House)Door Zohar Lavie
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Zohar Lavie: Meeting Experience with Care and Tenderness (Guided practice)
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(Gaia House)Door Zohar Lavie
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Zohar Lavie: Compassion: Meeting Experience Skilfully
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(Gaia House)Door Zohar Lavie
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Nathan Glyde: Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 2)
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(Gaia House)Door Nathan Glyde
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Nathan Glyde: Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 1)
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(Gaia House)Door Nathan Glyde
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Sayadaw U Jagara: Skills in Samadhi
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Quality of Mind being in relation to different objects. Metta practice in general.Door Sayadaw U Jagara
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