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Audio Guided Meditation

Meditation on Impermanence with Compassion

This guided meditation by Phyllis Hicks focuses on reflecting on the inevitability of loss,...

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Reflections on Insight Dialogue with an Amaryllis Plant in the Depth of Winter

Reflections by Janet Surrey based on relational meditation (Insight Dialogue) with an Amaryllis...

Audio Featured Post Insight Dialogue Guidelines

Guided Introduction to Guidelines Listen Deeply & Speak the Truth

Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guidelines Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth. Offered...

Insight Dialogue Guidelines Insight Dialogue Practice Written

Why Meditate Face-to-Face?

Gregory Kramer and Rosie Dores teach us Insight Dialogue, a practice that harnesses the potency...

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Insight Dialogue: Cultivating Presence in Our Relationships

Insight Dialogue (ID) is a powerful relational mindfulness practice that fosters deep presence,...

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The Seed of a Practice: Gregory Kramer Revisits Yokayo Ranch

Gregory and Lucy Leu recently visited the Yokayo Ranch, in Ukiah, California. This place has...

Dharma Talks Featured Post Video

The Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness...

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A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path

An introduction to a fully immersive, “always-on” engagement with the Noble Eightfold...

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Friendship, The Whole of a Life Well Lived

An exploration of the importance of friendship on the Buddhist path.

Audio Dharma Talks Portuguese

Pelo que trocamos a nossa paz?/Are we willing to trade our peace?

Some ways the Buddha points to the possibility of a transformative inner peace (in Portugu...

Audio Insight Dialogue Guidelines

Guided Introduction to Guideline Pause

Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Pause.

Audio Dharma Talks Guided Meditation Portuguese

As quatro bases do amor/The four bases of love

Consideration of the four Brahma viharas in our relational lives (in Portuguese).

Audio Guided Meditation Insight Dialogue Guidelines

Guided Introduction to Guideline Open

Guided introduction to Insight Dialogue Guideline Open.

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Unlearning Together: Anti-Racist Relational Dharma Practice July 2025

As members of the Insight Dialogue Community Anti-Racism Education and Action Team (AREA),...

Audio Dharma Talks Portuguese

Sallekha sutta - Apagamento do eu/Effacement

Short talk, sutta reading, and contemplation (in Portuguese)

AREA team Written

Unlearning Together: Anti-Racist Relational Dharma Practice October 2025

As members of the Insight Dialogue Community Anti-Racism Education and Action Team (AREA), we...

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Unlearning Together: Anti-Racist Relational Dharma Practice November 2025

As members of the Insight Dialogue Community Anti-Racism Education and Action Team (AREA), we...

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Dhamma Map Series

In this series of four talks Gregory Kramer guides participants in an exploration of a map...

Audio Guided Meditation Portuguese

Metta Bhavana

Guided meditation on lovingkindness (in Portuguese).

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Unlearning Together: Anti-Racist Relational Dharma Practice December 2025

As members of the Insight Dialogue Community Anti-Racism Education and Action Team (AREA),...

Audio Guided Meditation Portuguese

Karuna Bhavana

Guided meditation on compassion (in Portuguese).

Audio Dharma Talks Guided Meditation Portuguese

Sedaka sutta - Acrobata/The bamboo acrobat

Short talk, sutta reading, guided meditation and contemplation (in Portuguese).

Dharma Contemplation Video

Introduction to Dharma Contemplation

Brief introduction to the practice of Dharma Contemplation.

Audio Dharma Talks Guided Meditation Portuguese

Mudita

Short talk, followed by a guided meditation (in Portuguese).

Dharma Contemplation Dharma Talks Video

Stages of Dharma Contemplation and the Three Bases of Insight Dialogue

This Dhamma talk provides a reflection on the Stages of Dharma Contemplation Practice and...

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Role of Spiritual Friendship in Meeting the Difficult

This talk considers the benefits of spiritual friendship in meeting the difficult.

Audio Guided Meditation

Five Questions of Sati

Five Questions of Mindfulness (Sati).

Audio Guided Meditation Insight Dialogue Practice

Guided Anapanasati with Another

Guided Anapanasati meditation and contemplation.

Audio Dharma Talks

Giving Attention - Sources Happiness & Freedom

Exploration of causes and conditions that both hamper and support deep seeing.

Audio Dharma Talks

Kindness in Action

About kindness being expressed through generosity, appreciation, and friendship.

Audio Dharma Talks

An Overview of the Four Brahma Viharas

Exploring the skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

Audio Dharma Talks

Turning the Mind Towards the Dharma

Supporting our practice with four reflections that highlight the meaning of our life: Precious...

Audio Dharma Talks

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as Antidote

Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind...

Audio Dharma Talks

Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 2: Compassion

An exploration of compassion and self-compassion as Brahmavihara practices, and some suggestions...

Dharma Talks Guided Meditation Video

Aggregates Series

A series of talks on the five aggregates also known as the "clinging-khandas": form, feeling,...

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Dependent Origination Series

A series of talks on dependent origination (paticca samuppāda) understood in a relational context...

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Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts

This book describes the nature and purpose of Dharma Contemplation, with chapters detailing...

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Gratification, Danger and Escape

A series of teachings on gratification, danger and escape offered on retreat collected and...

Dharma Talks Video

Sutta Reflections

As series of four talks each focusing on one or more discourses of the Buddha (suttas) offered...

Audio Dharma Talks

The Aggregates and Interpersonal Meditation

Reflections on the aggregates and interpersonal meditation.

Audio Dharma Talks

Awareness and Release

A talk about awareness and release.

Audio Dharma Talks

Awareness Releases the Knot

This talk explores how the particulars of this human experience known through awareness and...

Audio Dharma Talks

Balance, Remembering and Effort

This talk considers how right effort and the calling forth of joy and curiosity cultivates...

Audio Dharma Talks

Clinging and the Vicissitudes

This talk describes how we can have stability of mind even when changes happen and we resist...

Audio Dharma Talks

Constructed and Unconstructed Intimacy and Love

This talk considers constructed and unconstructed intimacy.

Audio Dharma Talks

Cracking Hunger and Ignorance

Talk about the role of hunger for pleasure, existence and non-existence and ignorance of these...

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Cultivating Mindfulness in Relationship

This chapter from the book Mindfulness and the Therapeutic Relationship considers how Insight...

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Deep Listening: An Interview with Gregory Kramer

An interview with Gregory Kramer taken from Insight Journal, Spring 2006.

Audio Dharma Talks

Four Doorways to Speaking and Listening

This talk describes how to bring listening and speaking into meditation while maintaining the...

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The Four Noble Truths

This talk offers a description of the Four Noble Truths. The listener is invited to look closely...

Audio Dharma Talks

The Holy Life

Consideration of the penetrating and uncompromising quality of the Buddhas' teachings and how...

Audio Guided Meditation

Impermanence of Breath - A Guided Meditation

Guided meditation on impermanence of the breath.

Audio Dharma Talks

Insight Dialogue Disrupts the Structures

Reflections on how Insight Dialogue reveals how the Buddha’s teachings on tanha manifest in...

Audio Dharma Talks

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 1

In this first portion of a two-part talk, Gregory Kramer begins with the question, “What is...

Audio Dharma Talks

Liberated through Sense Contact - Part 2

In this second portion of a two-part talk, Phyllis Hicks describes how we "keep it real" by...

Audio Insight Dialogue Practice

Living Spark of Wisdom

This short, guided practice begins with an inquiry into what provides the motivation that moves...

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Living the Teachings

An essay on living the teachings of the Buddha.

Audio Guided Meditation

Guided Metta Meditation

This meditation guides us through the expansiveness of metta starting from the self, then moving...

Audio Guided Meditation

Metta Meditation

Guided metta (loving kindness) meditation.

Audio Guided Meditation

Metta Meditation & Our Willingness to Turn Towards What is Here Now

This short metta meditation points to how our willingness to turn towards what is here now...

Dharma Talks Video

Mindfulness in Relationship: The Power of the Shared Human Experience

Gregory Kramer speaks at The Family Action Network whose mission is to connect parents, educators...

Audio Insight Dialogue Practice

Pain and Pleasure Guided Practice

In this Insight Dialogue practice session, the guidelines Pause and Relax are practiced by...

Audio Guided Meditation Insight Dialogue Guidelines

Pause - A Guided Preparation

A guided preparation for the Insight Dialogue guideline Pause.

Audio Dharma Talks

Relating to Experience

This talk considers how we relate to experience as part of a liberative path.

Audio Dharma Talks Insight Dialogue Guidelines

Relax – Layers of the Guidelines Relax

Brief talk about the many layers of of the Insight Dialogue guideline Relax.

Audio Dharma Talks

Release Just Here

Reflections on how the Insight Dialogue guidelines can help orient us toward mindfulness when...

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Seeding the Heart: Loving-kindness Practice with Children

Gregory Kramer describes the practice of loving-kindness he shared with his children each...

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Sembrando el Corazón: La Práctica del Amor-Universal con Niños

Spanish translation of Seeding the Heart: Loving-kindness Practice with Children.

Audio Dharma Talks

The Sensitive Human

This talk speaks to the exquisitely sensitive nature of the human being and our specific and...

Audio Dharma Talks

Sensitive Humans

Talk about the sensitivity of the human organism and the implications of this sensitivity.

Audio Dharma Talks

Speech Is Action

This talk looks at speech as a world-forming action. In the Hindu and Abrahamic traditions,...

Audio Insight Dialogue Practice

Values And Pitfalls Of "Already Here"

This recording offers a guided practice for a group that has already practiced with all of...

Audio Dharma Talks

When Wisdom Meets Habit

Reflections on when wisdom meets habit.

Dharma Contemplation Video

Accessibility of Insight Dialogue

Gregory Kramer describes how Insight Dialogue is accessible for meditators and non-meditators...

Dharma Talks Video

Basis and Purpose of Insight Dialgoue

Gregory Kramer describes the basis and purpose of Insight Dialogue practice.

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Insight Dialogue's Beginnings

Gregory Kramer describes how Insight Dialogue came to be.

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Different Forms of Insight Dialogue Practice

Gregory Kramer describes the different ways Insight Dialogue can be practiced.

Guided Meditation Video

Metta (Loving Kindness) Guided Meditation

Gregory Kramer offers a guided Metta (loving kindness) meditation.

Dharma Talks Video

Lineage of Gregory Kramer's Teachings

Gregory Kramer describes his teachers and the how Insight Dialogue is linked to Vipassana...

Dharma Talks Video

Relationship of Insight Dialogue and Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice

Gregory Kramer describes the relationship between Insight Dialogue and Metta (loving kindness)...

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Role of Contemplations within Insight Dialogue

Gregory Kramer describes the role of contemplations within Insight Dialogue.