Beste Society Center Podcasts (2025)

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Jean Esther: The 8 Fold Path as a Practice for Living our Lives 54:44

6d ago54:44

54:44

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A General Over View of the 8 fold Path with particular emphasis on Ethical Conduct (Sila) in relation to others in our world.Von Jean Esther

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Chas DiCapua: Three Characteristics 51:55

7d ago51:55

51:55

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Descriptions of the three characteristics and the role they play in the Buddha's path to awakening.Von Chas DiCapua

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Jean Esther: Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 1:00:23

7d ago1:00:23

1:00:23

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When we begin to see the arising and passing of thought as not me, not my, and not mine, there is room loosen the grip of grasping and aversion. We can begin to see thought truly as one of the six sense doors.Von Jean Esther

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Éowyn Ahlstrom: What Faith Means in our Practice and How it Can Support Us 44:19

8d ago44:19

44:19

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Faith Doesn't mean blind beliefs; rather it means growing confidence in the way things are, including our ability to practice well.Von Éowyn Ahlstrom

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Jean Esther: Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 46:21

8d ago46:21

46:21

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We expand or awareness of our interconnectedness as humans when we practice Metta for both the "Neutral Person" and the "Difficult Person". Sometimes the Difficult Person can be ourselves. The end of this Guided Practice offers a compassion practice for oneself.…

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Chas DiCapua: Meditating with Emotions 1:09:56

8d ago1:09:56

1:09:56

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to relate to emotions in a way where we are neither pushing them away, or being lost in their content.Von Chas DiCapua

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Chas DiCapua: Joy 37:51

9d ago37:51

37:51

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding Worldly and Unworldly joy. How they are different and what each leads to.Von Chas DiCapua

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Éowyn Ahlstrom: Lovingkindness Practice 44:11

9d ago44:11

44:11

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and Guided Practice on LovingkindnessVon Éowyn Ahlstrom

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Jean Esther: Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 1:46:10

10d ago1:46:10

1:46:10

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When we bring mindfulness and non-identification to difficult mind states such as the hindrances they become less of an obstacle and more of doorway to freedom.Von Jean Esther

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Vinny Ferraro: 3rd Foundation of mindfulness w guided 58:38

15d ago58:38

58:38

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores our capacity to know the quality of awareness itself.Von Vinny Ferraro

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Vinny Ferraro: Exploring feeling tones along with some guidance 40:28

16d ago40:28

40:28

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) You may find this talk - pleasant, unpleasant or neutralVon Vinny Ferraro

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JoAnna Hardy: Morning instructions, hindrances and vedana 1:04:54

16d ago1:04:54

1:04:54

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short talk and 30 min. guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulnessVon JoAnna Hardy

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Vinny Ferraro: How to tend to suffering and resistance 45:44

17d ago45:44

45:44

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the nature of suffering and how to not make things harder than they already are.Von Vinny Ferraro

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Kaira Jewel Lingo: Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public: Honoring Dr. King and Building the Beloved Community 1:06:29

30d ago1:06:29

1:06:29

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Offered on the Strength to Love retreat over the MLK holiday weekend at IMS, we explore how we can each give rise to bodhicitta, the mind of awakening and love, and support the realization of justice: the expression of love in public. Kaira Jewel first shares about the personal impact of Dr. King on her…

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Bob Stahl: That Which Softens the Hardened Heart 1:01:21

1M ago1:01:21

1:01:21

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk on Metta / Lovingkindness and the power of loveVon Bob Stahl

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Christiane Wolf: How concentration works in a nutshell 11:04:01

1M ago11:04:01

11:04:01

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 15 min talk, then mostly silent meditationVon Christiane Wolf

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Fireside between Ganbrood and Culturehacker 59:16

3+ y ago59:16

59:16

@poptwig and Columbia DSL present the first in a series of fireside chats between H=N artists. In this conversation @ganbrood and @culturehacker side down for a candid convo about creating, selling and collecting art on http://hicetnunc.xyzVon Lance Weiler

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Framing Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil 58:51

3+ y ago58:51

58:51

This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of the world's most challenging problems, particularly when it comes to technology, can create new opportunities and better outcomes for humans to not just su…

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At the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development 1:05:22

3+ y ago1:05:22

1:05:22

The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others term it, data colonialism. For so-called “periphery” countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, the information economy represents an opportunity…

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Mistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in institutions 1:00:52

3+ y ago1:00:52

1:00:52

Even before the storming of the US Capitol, mistrust in institutions like the press and the federal government was challenging the civic fabric of America. In Ethan Zuckerman's new book, "Mistrust", he explores the deep roots of this mistrustful moment and examines ways individuals can make social change whether or not they have faith in institutio…

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Restoring US Leadership for Global Health 55:16

3+ y ago55:16

55:16

Governments around the world failed to contain COVID-19, with more than 3.2 million deaths and counting. Even before the pandemic, the United States was questioning its commitments to global health, its leadership role, and a system of progressive prices for medicines whereby the rich pay more to subsidize access for the poor. The pandemic is far f…

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Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics 1:03:23

4y ago1:03:23

1:03:23

Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we serve in the global south, to merely be passive beneficiaries and outside of the borders of expertise we seek? Instead of looking at digital governan…

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Governing the Social Media City 57:31

4y ago57:31

57:31

The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and research spaces (i.e., governments, academia, NGOs, and corporations), the default response is a focus on content moderation. However, this talk by Sahar Massac…

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Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures 1:05:30

4y ago1:05:30

1:05:30

What would the Internet look like if it was designed by sex workers? Taking a sex worker lens to tech ethics envisions a radically different online space. Sex workers hold unique insights into the real world impacts of platform capitalism, carceral politics, digital surveillance, and sexual gentrification. Yet sex workers face significant structura…

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COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society 58:04

4y ago58:04

58:04

In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan, Irene Poetranto, and Emiliano Treré invited participants to explore the pandemic from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in …

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Reopening Schools: A Seminar for State & Local Leaders 1:02:33

4y ago1:02:33

1:02:33

Since the federal stimulus bill has been signed, one of our nation’s major goals is to safely and rapidly reopen schools using funds allocated to State Departments of Education. This session focuses on some of the more complicated response measures necessary to make schools COVID-safe environments as they reopen: improving indoor ventilation and ai…

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Hindsight is 2020: Learning From our Past to Build a Better Future 1:03:58

4y ago1:03:58

1:03:58

We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it's creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when we shared an overriding optimism in the Internet's capacity to make the world a better place.Creator platforms and social media platforms saw us migrate our social lives …

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Digital Witnesses: The Power of Looking 1:10:22

4y ago1:10:22

1:10:22

Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech tools to track and circumvent oppressive policies by repressive governments. The conversation includes how Black people of Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States are leveraging social media platforms such as Y…

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