(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and guided practice on cultivating karuna (compassion) for a friend and a stranger.

Devon Hase: Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger

devon hase has practiced intensively in the insight and vajrayana traditions since discovering meditation in 2000. After a decade of bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms, she entered several years of silent, solitary retreat in the mountains of Oregon. She now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Forest Refuge, and serves as co-guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. Devon supports practitioners in both long and short retreats, as well as through personal mentoring, with an emphasis on relational practice and connection to the natural world. Along with her life partner, nico, she co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess and the forthcoming This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership (2026). Learn more at devonandnicohase.com.

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Devon Hase: Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger

Devon Hase: Guided Meditation: Compassion for a Friend and Stranger