Teachings

Guided Introduction to Guidelines Listen Deeply & Speak the Truth

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The Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

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A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path

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Friendship, The Whole of a Life Well Lived

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Pelo que trocamos a nossa paz?/Are we willing to trade our peace?

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Some ways the Buddha points to the possibility of a transformative inner peace (in Portuguese).

Guided Introduction to Guideline Pause

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Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Pause.

As quatro bases do amor/The four bases of love

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Consideration of the four Brahma viharas in our relational lives (in Portuguese).

Guided Introduction to Guideline Open

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Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Open.

Sallekha sutta - Apagamento do eu/Effacement

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Short talk, sutta reading, and contemplation (in Portuguese)

Dhamma Map Series

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Metta Bhavana

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Guided meditation on lovingkindness (in Portuguese).

Karuna Bhavana

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Guided meditation on compassion (in Portuguese).

Sedaka sutta - Acrobata/The bamboo acrobat

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Short talk, sutta reading, guided meditation and contemplation (in Portuguese).

Introduction to Dharma Contemplation

Video

Brief introduction to the practice of Dharma Contemplation.

Mudita

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Short talk, followed by a guided meditation (in Portuguese).

Stages of Dharma Contemplation and the Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

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Role of Spiritual Friendship in Meeting the Difficult

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This talk considers the benefits of spiritual friendship in meeting the difficult.

Five Questions of Sati

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Five Questions of Mindfulness (Sati).

Guided Anapanasati with Another

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Guided Anapanasati meditation and contemplation.

Giving Attention - Sources Happiness & Freedom

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Exploration of causes and conditions that both hamper and support deep seeing. 

Kindness in Action

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About kindness being expressed through generosity, appreciation, and friendship.

An Overview of the Four Brahma Viharas

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Exploring the skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

Turning the Mind Towards the Dharma

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Supporting our practice with four reflections that highlight the meaning of our life: Precious Human Body, Impermanence and Death, Law of Cause and Effect and the Imperfections of Life.

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as Antidote

Audio

Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind.

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 2: Compassion

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An exploration of compassion and self-compassion as Brahmavihara practices, and some suggestions for applying compassion as an antidote to painful mental states.

Aggregates Series

Video

A series of talks on the five aggregates also known as the "clinging-khandas": form, feeling, perception, constructions, consciousness.

Dependent Origination Series

Video

A series of talks on dependent origination (paticca samuppāda) understood in a relational context offered to members of the Insight Dialogue Community.

Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts

Teaching

This book describes the nature and purpose of Dharma Contemplation, with chapters detailing each of the five phases of the practice.

Gratification, Danger and Escape

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A series of teachings on gratification, danger and escape offered on retreat collected and annotated to facilitate their use for study by individuals or groups.

Sutta Reflections

Video

As series of four talks each focusing on one or more discourses of the Buddha (suttas) offered to members of the Insight Dialogue Community.

The Aggregates and Interpersonal Meditation

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Reflections on the aggregates and interpersonal meditation.

Awareness and Release

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A talk about awareness and release.

Awareness Releases the Knot

Audio

This talk explores how the particulars of this human experience known through awareness and the map of the Dhamma can support release.

Balance, Remembering and Effort

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This talk considers how right effort and the calling forth of joy and curiosity cultivates a path of remembering and mindfulness for daily life.

Clinging and the Vicissitudes

Audio

This talk describes how we can have stability of mind even when changes happen and we resist or take in personally, thinking things shouldn’t be as they are.

Constructed and Unconstructed Intimacy and Love

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This talk considers constructed and unconstructed intimacy.

Cracking Hunger and Ignorance

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Talk about the role of hunger for pleasure, existence and non-existence and ignorance of these hungers in suffering.

Cultivating Mindfulness in Relationship

Teaching

This chapter from the book Mindfulness and the Therapeutic Relationship considers how Insight Dialogue practice can be beneficial for psychotherapists in enhancing the quality of the therapeutic relationship.

Deep Listening: An Interview with Gregory Kramer

Teaching

An interview with Gregory Kramer taken from Insight Journal, Spring 2006.

Four Doorways to Speaking and Listening

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This talk describes how to bring listening and speaking into meditation while maintaining the integrity of practice.

The Four Noble Truths

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This talk offers a description of the Four Noble Truths. The listener is invited to look closely and see the sensitivity of the body-mind, recognize the pain of grasping and from this the possibility of something different.

The Holy Life

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Consideration of the penetrating and uncompromising quality of the Buddhas' teachings and how we bring these forward into this modern life as we live it.

Impermanence of Breath - A Guided Meditation

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Guided meditation on impermanence of the breath.

Insight Dialogue Disrupts the Structures

Audio

Reflections on how Insight Dialogue reveals how the Buddha’s teachings on tanha manifest in our interpersonal lives and how the hungers for pleasure, existence and non-existence can be disrupted by the practice.

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 1

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In this first portion of a two-part talk, Gregory Kramer begins with the question, “What is the spiritual path for, why and how am I doing it?”

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 2

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In this second portion of a two-part talk, Phyllis Hicks describes how we "keep it real" by showing up to whatever is here now. By bringing presence to the difficulty and knowing the reactivity, the mind grows bright and we can know what it is to be caught. 

Living Spark of Wisdom

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This short, guided practice begins with an inquiry into what provides the motivation that moves the heart, mind and body toward wisdom.

Living the Teachings

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An essay on living the teachings of the Buddha.

Guided Metta Meditation

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This meditation guides us through the expansiveness of metta starting from the self, then moving to all beings, and followed by humbling receiving loving kindness in return.

Metta Meditation

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Guided metta (loving kindness) meditation.