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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Richmond
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2026-06-02 The Spectrum of Desire 33:49
Kim Allen
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The human tendency to want can range from highly unskillful or harmful forms of grasping and compulsion, through ordinary desires of life, into beautiful forms of aspiration and care. Buddhist teachings show how we can develop the more skillful forms of desire, such as wanting to be ethical, to practice meditation, or to awaken. Interestingly, moving into skillful wanting is an act of letting go.
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2026-05-30 The Four Noble Truths and Freedom from Conceptual Limitation 52:27
Kim Allen
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In the Simile of the Cloth sutta, the Buddha describes liberation as going beyond mere "purity" to an inner freedom from mental limitation.
Insight Meditation Community of Richmond :  Awakening the Pure Heart

2026-05-29 The Work Only You Can Do: Wisdom and Purifying the Heart 54:54
Marjolein Janssen
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We often hope something outside us will do the purifying for us. The Buddha gently redirects: we need to do the inner work. This talk is based in the Simile of the Cloth sutta (MN7) and explores what that inner purification actually requires, and how wisdom makes it possible.
Insight Meditation Community of Richmond :  Awakening the Pure Heart

2026-05-28 Beautiful Mind 45:42
Kim Allen
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Recognizing and Cultivating the Wholesome
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2026-05-27 The Stained Mind and the Path to Clarity 43:24
Marjolein Janssen
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Drawing on the Buddha's Simile of the Cloth (MN7), this talk explores how greed, aversion, and delusion stain the mind and obscure clear seeing. We look at how these defilements manifest in meditation and everyday experience, and how to meet them with awareness rather than resistance.
Insight Meditation Community of Richmond :  Awakening the Pure Heart

2026-05-26 The Simile of the Cloth 11:50
Kim Allen
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An introduction to the retreat theme of Awakening the Pure Heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Richmond :  Awakening the Pure Heart

2026-05-19 Subtracting the Suffering: What Happens When We Stop Adding 21:56
Marjolein Janssen
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Every moment of experience arrives simple and bare, but the mind rarely leaves it that way. This talk explores SN 35.95, the Māluṅkyaputta Sutta, and Māluṅkyaputta's insight that suffering is not in what we experience, but in what we add to it.
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2026-05-05 The Buddha's Life After Awakening 22:41
Marjolein Janssen
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This talk explores the Buddha’s life after his awakening, his first teachings, and the wisdom he shared near the end of his life.
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2026-04-28 The Buddha’s Journey to Awakening 23:33
Marjolein Janssen
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This talk explores the life of the Buddha from his early years as Prince Siddhattha through his awakening under the Bodhi tree. Through his search, struggles, and realization, we uncover insights into suffering, striving, and the Middle Way.
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2026-04-18 This Messy Gorgeous Love 44:53
Devon Hase, Nico Hase
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Drawing from their new book "This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership", devon and nico share practical insights on bringing mindfulness and compassion into the beautiful complexity of intimate relationships. A guided meditation is followed by a teaching.
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