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Guided Meditations
Teacher Picks - Selected Talks
Sangha News Interviews

Talks on the practice of meditation are a vital aspect of the IMS retreat experience and help to bring alive the Buddha's teachings of freedom. At the Retreat Center, teachers offer talks on a daily basis. At the Forest Refuge, talks usually take place twice a week.

Podcasts

Subscribing to an IMS podcast allows you to automatically receive new talks given either at the Retreat Center or the Forest Refuge, as soon as they are available online.

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Retreat Center Talks

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These are the 15 most recent talks available from each center. This list is automatically updated as soon as new talks are uploaded.

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Retreat Center Talks

2012-01-14 Mark Coleman
The Path Of Awareness
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2012-01-13 Mark Coleman
Opening Talk For Mindfulness Retreat
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2012-01-05 Myoshin Kelley
Life Is Our Teacher. Life Is Our Practice
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2012-01-04 Yanai Postelnik
Trusting Our Potential For Awakening
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2012-01-04 Pascal Auclair
Morning Instructions - Five Aggregates
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2012-01-03 Pascal Auclair
Five Rivers Running Through - The Five Aggregates
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2012-01-02 Myoshin Kelley
The Intelligence Of Patience
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2012-01-02 Pascal Auclair
A Few Metta Stories - and a guided meditation.
  (DownloadStream)

2012-01-01 Yanai Postelnik
Contemplating Impermanence
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2011-12-30 Myoshin Kelley
An Invitation To Relax And Be Aware
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2011-12-29 Yanai Postelnik
Orienting Towards Freedom
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2011-12-29 Yanai Postelnik
Meditation Instructions - Day One
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2011-12-16 Narayan Liebenson Grady
Closing Talk
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2011-12-14 Christina Feldman
Non Self / Emptiness
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2011-12-13 Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
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Forest Refuge Talks

2012-01-23 Sky Dawson
The Joys In Practice
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2012-01-16 Sky Dawson
Compassion Is The Natural Response To Suffering
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2012-01-13 Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Learning From Fear
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2012-01-06 Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Turning The Mind Towards The Dharma
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2012-01-02 Sky Dawson
Ten Wholesome Qualities
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2011-12-22 Rebecca Bradshaw
Gratitude and generosity
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2011-12-19 Sky Dawson
Putting Our Intentions Into Perspective
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2011-12-12 Sky Dawson
Developing The Right Effort And Energy In Practice
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2011-12-05 Sky Dawson
What Leads To The Deepening Of Understanding
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2011-11-28 Sky Dawson
The Coolness Of Letting Go
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2011-11-24 Carol Wilson
Anatta
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2011-11-21 Sky Dawson
Equanimity As An Awakening Factor
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2011-11-17 Carol Wilson
Understanding Dukkha
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2011-11-14 Sky Dawson
The Potential Of Memory
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2011-11-10 Carol Wilson
The perception of impermanence.
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Guided Meditations

Joseph Goldstein - Insight Meditation Instruction
46 minutes, 10.7 MB (Download)

Sharon Salzberg - Guided Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation
47 minutes, 10.8 MB (Download)

Teacher Picks - Selected Talks

Guy Armstrong - Working With Difficult Emotions
IMS - October 27, 2006, 57 minutes, 13.5 MB (Download)

Christina Feldman - The Wisdom of Disappointment
IMS - March 11, 2007, 44 minutes, 10.1 MB (Download, Stream)

Joseph Goldstein - Liberation Through Non-Clinging
IMS - November 19, 2008, 61 minutes, 28.2 MB (Download, Stream)

Narayan Liebenson Grady - Compassion
IMS - August 23, 2007, 45 minutes, 8 MB (Download, Stream)

Myoshin Kelley - Center of the Cyclone
IMS - December 28, 2009, 60 minutes, 38 MB (Download, Stream)

Annie Nugent - Trust in the Unfolding Process of the Dharma
IMS - February 28, 2008, 55 minutes, 23.2 MB (Download, Stream)

Sharon Salzberg - The Force of Kindness
IMS Tele-talk - May 16, 2007, 26 minutes, 3.1 MB (Download)

Sharon Salzberg - Three Personality Types
IMS - March 23, 2004, 48 minutes, 11.1 MB (Download)

Rodney Smith - Radical Accountability
IMS - December 29, 2006, 47 minutes, 10.8 MB (Download, Stream)

Carol Wilson - Perception of Impermanence
IMS - October 22, 2006, 60 minutes, 13.9 MB (Download, Stream)

Sangha News Interviews

IMS publishes a quarterly e-news bulletin called Sangha News that often features audio interviews. You can access archives of Sangha News, and join or update our mailing list to receive future issues.