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Devon Hase's Dharma Talks at Big Bear Retreat Center
Devon Hase
devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of her life: she spent a decade bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms and now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and other centers around the world. She enjoys supporting practitioners with personal mentoring, and her friendly, conversational approach centers relational practice and the natural world. Along with her life partner nico, devon co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Buddhist Survival Guide for Modern Life. She continues to spend a good part of the time in wilderness retreat in Oregon, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. For more, visit devonandnicohase.com
2025-04-29 Wisdom 31:54
Dharma talk on the cultivation of Wisdom
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-29 Metta for All Beings 28:08
Guided practice on metta for all beings
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-28 Caring Figure Meditation 43:20
Teaching and guided meditation on receiving care, using caring moment, caring figure, and circle of benefactors.
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-28 Cittanupassana (Mindfulness of Thoughts) 38:23
Teaching and guided meditation on using thoughts as our object of mindfulness.
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-27 The Magic of Mindfulness 43:17
Sutta stories about the blessings of mindfulness, including protection, remembering, embodiment, wisdom, and restfulness.
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-26 Metta for the Body 35:43
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-26 Mindfulness of the Body with Vedana 38:50
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness
2025-04-25 Reflections on Confidence 54:36
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness

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