Kristina Weaver gave this dharma talk on May 30, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

Kristina reflects on Memorial Day and the recent events surrounding Charlottesville's Lee Park with the aim of providing encouragement for meditators to embrace a socially engaged practice. By learning to examine conflict with care, equanimity, and compassion -- and to anticipate the messiness of social change -- we can begin again and again in our efforts to support justice, peace, connection, and harmlessness for ourselves and others.

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on May 27, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville 2017 Spring Retreat at Serenity Ridge.

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Susan Bauer-Wu gave this dharma talk on May 23, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, is the president of the Mind & Life Institute, a global non-profit organization co-founded 30 years ago by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which serves as the primary convener, catalyst and community builder for the field of contemplative sciences.

In this dharma talk Susan describes the beneficial effects of quiet and solitude and how it help us in the rest of our lives be more present and connected with others.

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Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk on May 16, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

Staying at home in the body is a portal to awakening. The Buddha taught that it is just that simple.

"There is one thing that when cultivated and regularly practiced leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now. And to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? Mindfulness centered on the body." --The Buddha

This talk will explore this critical foundation of mindfulness.

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Pat Coffey gave this guided meditation on May 16, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

This guided meditation focuses on mindfulness of the body. Staying at home in the body is a portal to awakening.

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Amma Thanasanti gave this dharma talk on May 8, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

A full life path considers the totality of the human being in the world we are living in now. It is an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence. When we attend to our own healing and maturation and we develop skills to engage, the depth of our understanding and practice of Dhamma becomes more fully alive in service to ourselves, our communities and the world.

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk on May 2, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

The talk traces the major stages of the meditative journey and shows how our reasons for meditating change as practice deepens—from meditating for relief from our current painful circumstances and to improve oneself, to meditating for no other reason than to meditate. Far from taking us away from the world, the mindfulness journey invites us to engage with the world in our authentic way with a heart of compassion. Ultimately, it transforms one so that increasingly Buddha Nature shines naturally through one’s actions.

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Pat Coffey, Teresa Miller and Helen Knight Farrar gave this dharma talk on Apr 18, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

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Susan Stone gave this dharma talk on April 4, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

The Dharma (teaching) arises in the middle of everyday life. Susan Stone recently visited a pilgrimage retreat site in India and, upon leaving, she experienced three incidents that carried lessons from the Dharma that were as deep as any she had experienced on retreat. In a talk following the opening guided meditation, Susan relates these incidents and the Dharma lessons that each illustrated. An evening for all, whether you‘re new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner.

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Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk on April 2, 2017 at an Insight Dialogue retreat. For more information, please visit: imeditation.org