Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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4.2from 64 ratings
- 197
- Episodes
- 48
- Transcribed
- 64
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.
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- via dharmaseed.org
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Apr 2025
- Latest episode
- 28 Aug 2026
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Published 28 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You could say he had the highest amount, the considerable amount of power. And with this wealth and status and power, he had this extensive protection around him. He had these guards that were within and outside the royal compound, that were inside and outside the city, inside and outside of the country to protect his wealth, his status, his power. And then he had guards around the guards. Protection around the protection. But then later when he renounced this life and he became a monastic, he would live a very simple life, sometimes simply meditating at the foot of a tree outside. And as they often do in the Pali Canon, and I'm imagining they did at this time in ancient India, they would be like a collection of monastics meditating together. […]
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