Winnie Nazarko's Dharma Talks
Winnie Nazarko
Our potential as humans is vast and deep, and can be intentionally developed. There is a way that we can learn to open to all of our experience with kindness and clarity. As we begin to find this stability of heart and mind, wisdom will emerge.This emergence of wisdom, and strengthening of compassion, are the road to our individual and collective happiness and well-being.
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Select from Winnie Nazarko's
187
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2014-02-12
Instructions
2015-06-16
A taste Of Truth
2010-02-11
Agendas and Judgments
2014-05-05
All About Trying
2013-01-25
Are you trying hard enough?
2013-03-18
Are You Trying Hard Enough?
2015-06-13
Being fully in
2015-03-15
Brahma Vihara Day 15 Compassion
2015-03-17
Brahma Vihara Day 17 Mudita
2015-03-02
Brahma Vihara Day 2
2015-03-21
Brahma Vihara Day 21 Equanimity
2015-03-07
Brahma Vihara Day 7
2014-11-14
Breaking The chain Of Suffeering
2014-02-13
Closing Talk
2022-10-26
Compass of the heart
2022-05-21
Compassion
2014-10-09
Compassion and Not-Self
2013-12-20
Concentration and Liberation
2014-09-03
Concentration and Liberation
2016-05-23
Considering forgiveness
2019-10-29
Continuity Of Practice
2020-02-11
Cultivation
2020-03-02
Cultivation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-06
Day 7 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-11-14
Deep roots of compassion
2024-10-11
Dependent Origination: Identifying the Place of Power
2022-07-20
Dharma Talk
2022-03-12
Discerning Wise Effortccccc (Retreat At Spirit Rock)
2025-10-08
Drawing on the Dharma
2013-03-04
Entering Retreat
2015-02-13
Equanimity
2017-11-28
Equanimity
2019-03-13
Equanimity
2022-05-24
Equanimity
2012-11-15
Equanimity: Balanced Radiance Of Mind
2019-03-09
Establishing Presence
2017-02-27
Establishing presence.
2013-10-07
Evaluating Your Meditation Practice
2019-05-16
Feeding What Feeds Us
2017-02-25
Feeling your breath and how feeling helps.
2022-02-27
First Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-18
Forgiveness
2022-11-28
Forgiveness
2019-05-19
Forgiveness And Compassion
2015-04-24
Forgiveness: An Exploration of Letting Go
2014-02-26
Forgiviness
2016-02-08
Getting Equinimity
2019-09-05
Gladding The Mind
2024-07-06
Gladding the mind.
2017-11-15
Guided Forgiveness Meditation
2014-10-03
Guided Metta Meditation
2013-09-13
Guided Metta Meditation
2015-06-15
Guided metta meditation and chant
2010-10-19
Guided Metta Meditation For All Beings
2014-10-23
Happiness At the Happiness Of Others
2018-09-11
Happiness Of Practice
2016-05-20
Hindrances in metta practice
2014-09-25
Holy Curosity
2014-11-21
How Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom Open
2015-03-18
How Practice Creates Happiness
2015-03-25
How To Describe It?
2016-02-21
How To Establish Presence
2017-07-04
Independence Day
2014-02-08
Instructions
2014-02-09
Instructions
2014-02-10
Instructions
2014-02-11
Instructions
2014-02-13
Instructions
2022-06-04
Integrated meditation instructions and review
2012-11-01
Integrity Of Effort
2016-09-26
Integrity of effort
2015-02-06
Investigation
2016-10-10
Investigation of states
2009-11-07
Joining Our Practice With Others
2024-09-27
Joseph's Responses to Three Month Yogis Written Questions
2019-02-21
Learning
2012-10-23
Loving Kindness Meditation
2024-01-05
Meditation and the path.
2018-01-01
Meditation Instructions On Working With With Emotions
2015-03-26
Metta Chant (call & response)
2015-06-16
Metta chant in Pali
2013-09-23
Metta First Expression In The World
2014-11-07
Metta In Practice
2015-03-03
Metta In Practice
2022-05-22
Metta instructions for the "neutral person"
2024-07-07
Metta talk and Instruction
2023-09-22
Metta talk and instructions (guided)
2018-11-05
Mixing Things In
2018-11-19
Moral Restraint and Non-harming.
2015-03-04
Morning Instructions Day 4
2015-03-09
Morning Instructions Day 9 Third Foundation of Mindfulness
2014-09-24
Morning Meditation Instructions
2019-09-04
Morning Meditation Instructions
2022-10-28
Morning Meditation Instructions
2018-11-19
Morning Reflections On The Death Of A Benefactor
2020-02-04
Motivation and Mainstream
2013-09-16
Motivation and Wise Effort
2024-09-13
Motivation for Practice
2020-02-18
Motivation, Disillusionment, and Release
2009-10-31
Motivations , Agenda, and Aspirations
2014-02-11
Mudita
2009-07-28
My Enemy, My Teacher
2013-03-25
Natural Insight
2011-11-28
Not Making Two
2019-02-02
Opening Evening for Forest Refuge Wise Concentration Retreat
2019-10-23
Orientation To Practice
2016-09-12
Perspectives on practice meetings
2010-10-30
Pith Practice Teachings
2013-10-21
Pleasant Isn't Everything
2015-11-10
Practical Concentration
2015-11-24
Practice Tips
2024-10-04
Practicing the 8-Fold Path on Retreat
2018-10-23
Practicing The Whole Path.
2017-10-31
Practicing With The Difficult and Painful.
2011-02-24
Purification of Motivation
2013-01-18
Reflections on Faith
2016-10-18
Reflections on the practice of forgiveness
2014-02-24
Rejoicing In The Happiness Of Others
2024-09-20
Renunciation
2012-11-29
Returning To The Marketplace
2013-09-23
Review Of Meditation Instructions
2013-03-11
Saddha
2022-07-22
Samadhi
2019-11-19
Samadhi - Concentration
2014-11-29
Second Guessing The Universe
2012-11-22
Seeing Our Goodness
2011-11-11
Seeing the Good
2018-09-18
Self-View and Practice
2015-03-14
Sharing the Happiness of Others
2022-03-17
Sharing the Happiness of Others (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-12
Sila
2023-10-09
Sila/Moral Restraint
2011-11-17
Steadying the Mind, Opening the Heart
2013-09-30
Surrender To Truth
2022-07-24
Suttas and Life
2018-11-12
The 7 Factors of Awakening.
2024-01-12
The 8 fold path, wise attention and purification
2017-03-06
The arc of practice.
2025-07-06
The Buddha's Path
2010-10-09
The Buddha's Question
2018-11-26
The Buddha's Teaching On Social and Communal Harmony
2015-11-03
The Creativity Of The Spiritual Path
2011-10-26
The Door in the Wall
2012-11-09
The Ethical Trainings As Skillful Means
2022-05-31
The five hindrances.
2019-02-09
The Five Spiritual Faculties In Concentration Practice
2017-03-04
The five spiritual faculties.
2022-03-01
The Frame Around Insight Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-10-16
The Great Question, Investigation and Doubt
2014-02-09
The Hindrances
2015-06-20
The importance of mindfulness to liberation
2019-09-01
The Journey To Awakening
2017-07-11
The Other Retreat
2015-04-17
The Path To An Open Heart
2011-03-01
The Potential of the Conditioned World
2011-11-23
The Problem With Greed
2015-08-14
The Progress Of Insight - Part 1
2015-08-21
The Progress Of Insight - Part 2
2015-08-28
The Progress Of Insight - Part 3
2018-10-29
The Rest Of The Retreat
2018-02-17
The Role of Sila (Ethical training) in the Buddha's path.
2014-10-02
The Seduction of Doubt
2010-11-06
The Spiritual compost
2011-02-14
The Striving Mind
2015-03-08
The Third Foundation: Knowing theMind
2018-09-25
The Three Temperaments
2023-05-13
The through line of the eightfold path.
2011-02-18
The Truth in Ordinary Things
2016-10-03
The truth of Dukka
2022-11-07
Thoughts and meditation
2023-05-28
Upekkha - equanimity
2022-08-06
Walking meditation instructions
2017-10-24
Welcoming Talk - Refuges and Precepts - Practice Comments
2018-02-15
What meditation are you doing?
2015-11-17
What's Going On In The Teacher Meetings?
2015-08-07
When You Can't Get There From Here
2019-11-26
Wisdom In Action
2023-10-02
Wise Effort
2025-07-09
Wise Effort
2023-05-24
Wise Effort (Sammaviriya)
2024-01-19
Wise effort in knowing the wholesome
2019-03-11
Wise Intention
2011-11-02
Working in the Middle: Effort and Surrender
2016-03-16
Working on Motivation for Practice
2015-02-17
Working Smart
2019-11-05
Working With Developing The Wholesome
2015-04-10
Working With Thought
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Select one of Winnie Nazarko's 58 retreats
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2009-07-24
Insight Meditation
2009-09-26
Two-Month Retreat
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-09-11
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2010-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-02-05
February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2012-10-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2013-01-01
January 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-03-04
March Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-09-10
Three Month - Part 1
2013-12-17
Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind
2014-02-07
The Heart’s Release with Marcia Rose and Winnie Nazarko
2014-02-21
Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat
2014-05-02
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-09-13
Three Month - Part 1
2014-11-01
November 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-02-01
February 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-02-28
March Insight 1 Month Retreat
2015-04-01
April 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-06-10
The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2015-06-19
Letting Go of Distraction: Insight and Metta Weekend
2015-08-01
August 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-11-01
November 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-02-05
The Wisdom of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-02-19
Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-05-18
Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat
2016-09-10
Three-Month Part 1
2017-02-24
Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-03-02
In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration
2017-07-01
July 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2018-02-13
In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration
2018-09-01
September 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-02-01
February 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2019-02-02
The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-03-08
Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-05-15
Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat
2019-08-30
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2019-09-03
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI Community
2019-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2020-02-01
February 2020
2020-02-29
March Monthlong
2022-02-26
March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2022-05-18
Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat
2022-05-28
Finding the Present Moment: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-07-19
Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat
2022-08-05
Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation
2022-10-25
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-05-09
The Path to Awakening
2023-05-20
Finding the Present Moment
2023-09-12
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2024-01-01
January 2024
2024-07-05
Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat
2024-09-10
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2025-07-05
Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN
2011-11-28
Not Making Two
61:41
At the end of retreat, there are often concerns about how to take "this" back home. If we define "this" too narrowly, with a dualistic mind, we will miss the chance to practice effectively when we return to the conditions of lay life.Lay life is different, and offers the opportunity for practice which is broader, more dynamic, and more relational than that done on retreat. The Buddha himself saw his teachings as useful and beneficial to lay people as well as monastics, sometimes in surprising applications. Some of his teachings for lay people are discussed, clarifying that the 8 Fold Path can be practiced outside of silent retreat, in daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-11-23
The Problem With Greed
50:19
Our relationship with sense pleasure is complicated. Moving towards what is pleasant is instinctual,and we need to be able to experience what is pleasant without clinging, fear or attachment in order to be whole. Yet pleasant vedana (sensation) is not a reliable goal or guide on the spiritual path. Pleasure - like all conditioned things - has its limitations and does not work well as the orienting principle in our practice and lives. Like the Buddha, we need to be able to swim upstream, and not be limited by our conditioning towards ease.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
