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Diana Clark's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
Diana Clark
Diana Clark, PhD, offers Dharma teachings grounded in many years of meditation practice, retreat experience, and study, as well as a deep trust in the Buddha’s path of peace and freedom. Her teaching invites people to discover greater ease, clarity, and freedom in the midst of ordinary life. Diana was trained as a retreat teacher by Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella. Her background also includes serving as a professor of Theravāda Buddhism at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and working as a cancer researcher. She has a PhD in biochemistry. These varied forms of practice, teaching, and inquiry inform an approach to the Dharma that is careful, experiential, and engaged with everyday life. More than a thousand of Diana’s talks and guided meditations are available at AudioDharma.org. Her website is DianaClarkDharma.org.
2026-08-15 Morning Reflection: Without an Agenda 45:53
This morning reflection invites a spacious, receptive awareness without looking for a particular experience or trying to make understanding happen.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-14 When Knowing Impermanence Becomes Understanding Impermanence 45:13
This talk explores the difference between knowing that everything changes and deeply understanding impermanence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-14 Morning Reflection: Knowing Change 50:27
This morning reflection invites a relaxed awareness of experience, including the changing nature of mind and body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-13 Morning Reflection: Not Me, Not Mine 48:09
This reflection explores the practice of meeting experience without turning it into "me" or "mine." It invites noticing the subtle movement from simple experience to identification with that experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-08 No Need to Look for Insights 52:57
Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-07 From Judgment to Understanding: A Path to Freedom 54:08
This talk explores how curiosity, discernment, and seeing conditions clearly can loosen judgment and support greater freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-07 Morning Reflection: Learning From What is Here 45:01
When we stop trying to create the "right" meditation, every experience can become something to learn from.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-08-06 Morning Reflection: Steady, Not Strained 51:18
Right Effort asks for commitment, but not strain. This recording begins with a reflection and guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

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