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I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.It is fun for me to take the most difficult concepts and put them into accessible language, to unwrap the mystery. So I try to find ways to explore the breadth of concepts like "emptiness" -- to see how the entire path can be explained in terms of this synonym for nibbana. One of my aims is to bring the goal of freedom into the here and now. This way practitioners get a taste of freedom, so they know what they are heading toward on their journey to liberation.The tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness can be picked up by anyone. They are easy to understand and they bring immediate benefit to our lives. The essence of vipassana is ideally suited to western socie

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Episodes

  1. Guy Armstrong: Instructions: Energetic impact of breathing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  2. Guy Armstrong: The Nature of Awareness, Part 1

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sense consciousness is the simple knowing of a phenomenon at one of the six sense doors. Awareness is the broad field that includes all six types of sense consciousness. Awareness can be freeing when we see that it's empty.

  3. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Choiceless awareness

  4. Guy Armstrong: Tranquility and insight

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha talked about tranquility and insight as, two primary developments in meditation practice. The two might have slightly different styles of practice, but each benefits the other.

  5. Guy Armstrong: Q&A on Karma

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  6. Guy Armstrong: Karma

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Karma means action from a volition. This talk explores karma as a reliable path to happiness. It also includes the results of action and the relationship of karma to not-self.

  7. Guy Armstrong: Q&A

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  8. Guy Armstrong: Working With Difficult Emotions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  9. Guy Armstrong: Seven Factors of Enlightenment

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The sequential development of the factors of enlightenment beginning with mindfulness, leading to the arousing factors, then to the pacifying factors. Keeping a special eye on mindfulness, energy, and concentration to keep the factors balanced.

  10. Guy Armstrong: Choiceless Attention

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mahasi Sayadaw taught this style of meditation in which any object that arises in our experience can be the momentary focus of mindfulness, including breath, sensations, sounds, emotions, thoughts, and so on.

  11. Guy Armstrong: Concentration

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Concentration as a unification of mind brings stability of attention and is the foundation for liberating insight. Benefits of Samatha and vipassana. What blocks concentration and how to develop it in the retreat setting.

  12. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of sensations in the body, with special attention to bodily pain.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  13. Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness of Breathing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The foremost meditation practice in the Theravadan tradition. There are many benefits and also some potential obstacles in this practice.

  14. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introducing the modified meditation instructions from Mahasi Sayadaw, beginning by choosing an anchor in breath, body posture, or sounds.

  15. Guy Armstrong: Awareness: Turn, recognize, rest

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  16. Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness of Breathing: 3 sensations in inbreath & outbreath

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  17. Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness of breathing combined with a body scan

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  18. Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness of breathing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness of breathing has been the most widespread meditation in Buddhism since its beginning. It is included within mindfulness of the body and offers specific benefits as well. The talk also describes some of the obstacles practitioners may...

  19. Guy Armstrong: Deepening in Emptiness

    (Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Emptiness has been one of the most important themes in Buddhist teachings since their very beginning. This talk will explore how the realization of emptiness unfolds in us through dharma practice to lead to greater and greater degrees of freedom.

  20. Guy Armstrong: Karma And The End Of Karma

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  21. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Big Mind Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  22. Guy Armstrong: Forgiveness Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forgiveness as a complement to the meditations on Metta

  23. Guy Armstrong: The Five Aggregates Are Not self

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  24. Guy Armstrong: Seven Factors Of Awakening

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How mindfulness activates wholesome states of mind, including energy and concentration, that lead to full awakening.

  25. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  26. Guy Armstrong: Working with Difficult Emotions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Describes ways to work with difficult emotions in general. Offers particular guidance on meditating with the states of desire, anger, self-judgment, grief, and fear.

  27. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions - Thoughts

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  28. Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness Of Breathing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What mindfulness is and why mindfulness of breathing is such a valuable meditation in our tradition.

  29. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  30. Guy Armstrong: Taking the Practice Home

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The key learnings from awareness practices. How to integrate them with classical vipassana practices.

  31. Guy Armstrong: Emptiness and Karma

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) It may seem that the Buddha's teaching on emptiness is incompatible with his teaching on karma, which connects the result of an action with the same being who performed it. But actually, the two teachings need each other to make sense.

  32. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  33. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Body + Consciousness

  34. Guy Armstrong: The Aggregates Are Empty

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness are empty in two ways. There is no ongoing self in the center, which points to the emptiness of self. All the aggregates are insubstantial, which points to the emptiness of...

  35. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Abiding in Emptiness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  36. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Natural State

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  37. Guy Armstrong: Nature of Awareness, Part 2

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Further explorations of the aspects of emptiness, awareness, and responsiveness. Sunlight in empty space as an analogy for the nature of the mind.

  38. Guy Armstrong: The Nature of Awareness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores three aspects of the mind as described by Lama Shabkar: “The mind is like a flawless piece of crystal: intrinsically empty, naturally radiant, and ceaselessly responsive.”

  39. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Objects, Space, and Awareness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  40. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Pervading Metta for All Beings

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  41. Guy Armstrong: An Appropriate Response

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The four brahma viharas with their near and far enemies form a complete map of our emotional responses to the joys and sorrows of life. This talk focuses primarily on the qualities of compassion and mudita.

  42. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: Practice of Mudita

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  43. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: The Practice of Compassion

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  44. Guy Armstrong: Morning Instructions: On Metta Practice

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  45. Guy Armstrong: The Power of Lovingkindness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) There are five key benefits of Metta practice: making the heart more tender, purifying the mind, concentration, connection to all of life, and real happiness.

  46. Guy Armstrong: Chanting And Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Breathing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  47. Guy Armstrong: Transcendent Dependent Origination

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Traces the path from suffering to liberation through the twelve causal links that emphasize positive states like joy, happiness, and faith.

  48. Guy Armstrong: The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The end of suffering can be understood as either permanent or temporary. In both cases, it is closely tied to the absence of selfing.

  49. Guy Armstrong: The Five Aggregates Are Not Self

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five aggregates describe our whole human experience without reference to an "I" or "my". It is freeing to see in this way without the burden of self.

  50. Guy Armstrong: First and Second Noble Truths

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The First Noble Truth of suffering is to be fully understood. The Second Noble Truth says that the origin of suffering is craving, which is to be abandoned.

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About this show

I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in practice and understanding.It is fun for me to take the most difficult concepts and put them into accessible language, to unwrap the mystery. So I try to find ways to explore the breadth of concepts like "emptiness" -- to see how the entire path can be explained in terms of this synonym for nibbana. One of my aims is to bring the goal of freedom into the here and now. This way practitioners get a taste of freedom, so they know what they are heading toward on their journey to liberation.The tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness can be picked up by anyone. They are easy to understand and they bring immediate benefit to our lives. The essence of vipassana is ideally suited to western socie

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I have always enjoyed working with practitioners who are continuing to deepen their practice. In the many long retreats I teach at both IMS and Spirit Rock, I feel free to pass on the deepest pointings I’ve found in the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Those are my guiding lights in...

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