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Chas DiCapua's Dharma Talks at Twin Cities Vipassana Collective
Chas DiCapua
Chas DiCapua is currently the Insight Meditation Society's Resident Teacher, and has offered meditation since 1998. He is interested in how each person can fully and uniquely manifest the dharma. He teaches regularly at sitting groups and centers close to IMS.
2026-02-19 Every Day Nibanna 49:27
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Understanding the Noble Truths, not simply as a description of suffering and its end, but also showing us how to practice
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter 2026 retreat
2026-02-17 The Resonate Heart 44:05
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Understanding the innate qualities of the heart, how to cultivate them, what gets in the way
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter 2026 retreat
2025-02-21 Seven Factors of Awakening 48:36
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Describes the 7 factors as qualities of enlightenment
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT
2025-02-19 Feeling Tone: 2nd Establishment of Enlightenment 46:46
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Learning to be aware of feeling tone as a factor in the enlightenment process
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT
2025-02-17 Body: First establishment of mindfulness 48:24
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT
2024-02-22 Nowhere to go, Nothing to do, No one to be or become 49:53
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Exploring the Buddha's teaching of Mano San Chetena. Letting go of the compulsion to do.
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2024
2024-02-20 Wise Effort 40:58
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Cultivating a receptive awareness with a light touch. Understanding the part intention plays in right effort
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2024
2023-02-22 The Seven Factors of Awakening 47:50
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The seven factors of awakening, what they are, how they relate to each other, and how to cultivate them
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2023 retreat
2023-02-20 Nutriment 46:37
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The Buddhist teachings on what, how and why the body and mind feed on sensory experience. Understanding what "food" is nourishing and how to cultivate it
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2023 retreat
2023-02-18 The Relative and Absolute vView of Reality 43:55
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Depending on how we view what is arising, it can look very different. The Buddhist path is about understanding and inhabiting these two views fully and deeply
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2023 retreat
2022-02-22 Metta meditation 47:15
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A guided meditation on metta
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter Retreat 2022
2022-02-21 Aversion in meditation 51:57
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A talk on dealing with aversion in meditation
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter Retreat 2022
2022-02-20 Compassion 43:29
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A talk on compassion
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter Retreat 2022
2022-02-19 Chi Gong stance 46:18
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A review of the basic Chi Song stance
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC Winter Retreat 2022
2020-02-18 Not-Self 53:28
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Understanding Not Self through the lens of change and interconnectedness
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2020
2020-02-15 Conditionality 45:11
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How the conditioned nature of things gives rise to anicca, sukkah and anatta
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2020
2019-02-20 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 47:28
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2019-02-18 Working with the Hindrances 60:47
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2019-02-16 The Importance of the Body in our Practice 50:01
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2018-03-18 Wise View 54:36
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2018
2018-02-22 Wise Speech, Action, and Livelihood 42:17
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2018 retreat
2018-02-20 Wise Intention 0:00
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2018 retreat
2017-02-22 The intersection of Wisdom and Compassion 46:09
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC winter 2017
2017-02-20 Working with the self critical mind 52:14
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC winter 2017
2017-02-18 How Compassion is Present in a mMoment of Mindfulness 51:52
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Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC winter 2017
2016-02-16 Calm and Concentration 51:30
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Exploration of these two factors of awakening and how they work together
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2016 retreat
2016-02-14 The Awakening Factor of Viriya (effort/energy) 51:48
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The correct and incorrect forms of energy to bring to bear on practice and the skillful and unskillful applications of that energy
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  TCVC February 2016 retreat
2015-02-16 Judgement and discernment 50:48
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Learning the difference between these two and how they affect our life and practice
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2015
2015-02-14 Calm and Samadhi 47:38
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Developing calm and samadhi in practice focusing and by letting go.
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective :  Winter 2015

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