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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
2025-07-14 Body-directed mindfulness 13:21
Sayadaw U Jagara
The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-12 Be an Island for yourself 13:08
Sayadaw U Jagara
Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-09 Guarding the mind 21:26
Sayadaw U Jagara
Simile of the six animals, wanting to tame and understand their nature
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-07 GPS Meditation 13:04
Sayadaw U Jagara
Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-29 Sacredness in the world 31:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-29 Q and A 52:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 - What would you suggest as priorities for lay practice, recollections to establish a steady orientation to Dhamma?; 13:08 Q2 - Mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 18:30 Q3 - Energy, qi, anapanasati and integration of energy; 26:24 Q4 – I feel lots of unpleasant skin sensations when sitting, What might these be? 28:46 Q5 You’ve referred to integrating energy as a new way to consider. What does this mean? 36:09 Q9 Why couldn’t it be that nibbana is like chasing the unicorn; 37:23 Q10 Can you speak about wisdom and samadhi; 40:33 Q11 Can you provide some guidance on mudita, rapture (piti) and stability/ staying grounded; 44:52 Q12 Contemplating the arising of the ‘me’ sense, dependent on phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-27 Integrating experience into the domain of release 38:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Based on a heart that integrates around goodwill, key features of letting go arise. These are a successive process of disengagement, dispassion, cessation and release (or relinquishment). For example bitterness and guilt can be felt as they are and move on.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-26 Unicorns, demons and the heart of release 52:12
Ajahn Sucitto
The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-23 Rituals as pragmatic resources 64:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Resonating with images and meanings of the Triple Gem generates positive waves that place one in the field of the True, the Good and the Beautiful – the best place for practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-22 The practice of non-clinging 42:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Investigate the causal process of how dhammas arise and subside, and learn how to be with that.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

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