(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 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) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings on RAIN and holding it all with awareness
1 hr
About Devon Hase's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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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.