The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Devon Hase's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
Devon Hase
devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of her life: she spent a decade bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms and now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and other centers around the world. She enjoys supporting practitioners with personal mentoring, and her friendly, conversational approach centers relational practice and the natural world. Along with her life partner nico, devon co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Buddhist Survival Guide for Modern Life. She continues to spend a good part of the time in wilderness retreat in Oregon, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. For more, visit devonandnicohase.com
2024-03-03 Effortless Effort 14:42
Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-02 Three Honorings 47:42
Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2024-03-01 Ordinary Love 48:11
Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024
2023-03-24 Morning Reflections on Faith and Metta 13:28
How metta really works in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-22 Elk, Bobcats, Porcupine, and Turkeys: Reflections on Nature and Metta 44:32
A dharma talk about the four brahma viharas and nature - how wild things help wake up the heart. Starring many wild and wonderful creatures and lots of retreat stories.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-20 Morning Reflection: Your Open Empty Heart 5:56
Short reflections on opening the heart to discover its empty fullness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-17 Morning Reflection: One Serious Story and One Funny Story 8:28
Short reflections on kindness and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-15 Eddie Would Go 43:07
Reflections on Compassion, including stories from practicing in Hawai'i and in Bodhgaya with the 17th Karmapa.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-08 Morning Reflection: Natural Compassion 26:31
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023
2023-03-07 Reflection on Metta + Wisdom 12:53
A short reflection and story about how metta can help us grow wisdom, and how wisdom can help us grow metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2023

Creative Commons License