Daryl Lynn Ross's Dharma Talks
     at True North Insight 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Daryl Lynn Ross  
 
    
        
                            
      Daryl Lynn Ross lives and transmits the Buddhist teachings from the heart with a sensitivity to the unique path of each person. She has been teaching meditation for over 30 years and is grateful to have teachers and mentors from several Buddhist and other traditions, including mystical Christian. For 22 years as a University Chaplain at Concordia U in Montreal she offered meditation practices and spiritual leadership. Co-founder and guiding teacher for True North Insight Meditation since 2003, Daryl teaches local groups and intensive courses, mentors and counsels in personal meetings, and enjoys offering a wide range of retreats. She is known for her clear, gentle, compassionate approach which is both accessible and profound.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
    --
    
            Select from Daryl Lynn Ross's
            272
            talks
    
     -- 
    VIEW ALL 
    
        2014-11-14
            10-Point Meditation 
    
        2019-12-30
            1st morning instructions 
    
        2018-04-29
            Abiding in the Heart, Metta Practice 
    
        2017-01-14
            Acceptance, Love and Compassion in Meditation 
    
        2017-03-04
            Acceptance, Love and Compassion in Meditation - Perth daylong 
    
        2016-11-05
            Altruistic Service 
    
        2016-07-08
            An Overview of Insight Meditation 
    
        2019-07-17
            Anapanasati: 1st Tetrad 
    
        2019-07-18
            Anapanasati: 2nd Tetrad 
    
        2019-07-20
            Anapanasati: 4th Tetrad 
    
        2019-07-19
            Anapanasati: Mind 
    
        2014-03-29
            Arising of Insight 
    
        2013-11-15
            Arising of Strong Emotions in Meditation 
    
        2013-01-24
            Basic Instructions for being on retreat 
    
        2016-09-30
            Being at Peace with Change 
    
        2018-11-18
            Being Present in our Lives 
    
        2016-11-19
            Being Present with Compassion 
    
        2012-09-15
            Bilingual dialogue on mindfulness of the body, Daryl and Pascal 
    
        2023-07-17
            Body scan with Gratitude 23-07-17 
    
        2021-11-13
            Body scan with gratitude for the body 
    
        2017-03-04
            Body Scan with Gratitude Reflections - Perth daylong 
    
        2013-01-25
            Boundless Qualities of Heart: Guided Metta 
    
        2019-11-15
            Bringing Calmness and Insight to Suffering 
    
        2017-11-26
            Bringing Yoga and Mindfulness into Daily Life, with Q&A 
    
        2025-07-14
            Chant - Buddham Dhammam Sangham Vande 
    
        2023-07-22
            Chant Buddham Dhammam Sangham Vande 23-07-22 
    
        2017-11-25
            Chant: Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2019-06-08
            Chant: Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2015-06-24
            Chant: Om mani padme hum 
    
        2019-07-19
            Chanted Refuges and Heart Sutra mantra 
    
        2019-11-14
            Chanting and Meditation 
    
        2017-07-22
            Chanting Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2019-07-19
            Chanting metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha 
    
        2019-11-16
            Chanting Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2016-07-09
            Chanting OM MANE PADME HUM 
    
        2019-12-31
            Chanting: Metta Sutta 
    
        2018-07-21
            Chanting: Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2019-12-30
            Chanting: Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha 
    
        2017-07-22
            Choiceless Awareness Meditation 
    
        2017-11-26
            Choiceless Awareness Practice 
    
        2019-07-21
            Closing day talk and dialogue 
    
        2018-08-12
            Closing Talk 
    
        2019-04-15
            Closing talk 
    
        2019-11-17
            Closing Talk 
    
        2023-07-23
            Closing talk and Q & R 
    
        2018-11-15
            Compassionate Body Scan 
    
        2013-11-16
            Contemplation of the Four Elements 
    
        2019-12-31
            Contemplation of the Four Elements 
    
        2019-07-17
            Contemplation on the Four Elements 
    
        2018-11-17
            Contemplations on Death 
    
        2018-11-16
            Contemplations on the Nature of the Body 
    
        2017-07-23
            Dance of Self and No Self in Daily Life + Tonglen 
    
        2019-11-17
            David and Daryl on Practice in Daily Life, Q&A 
    
        2022-11-03
            Day_1.1 Intro to Insight Meditation 
    
        2022-11-03
            Day_1.2 Sitting instruction & Earth Element 
    
        2022-11-03
            Day_1.3 Guided meditation - Sacredness of the 4 Elements & Tree Meditation 
    
        2022-11-03
            Day_1.4 Guided meditation - water element 
    
        2022-11-03
            Day_1.5 Guided metta practice 
    
        2022-11-04
            Day_2.1 Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2022-11-04
            Day_2.2 The Hindrances 
    
        2022-11-04
            Day_2.3 Tonglen 
    
        2022-11-05
            Day_3.1 Buddham Dhammam Sangham Vande chant 
    
        2022-11-05
            Day_3.2 Equanimity 
    
        2022-11-05
            Day_3.3 Guided Meditation Air and Space Elements 
    
        2022-11-05
            Day_3.4 Guided meditation on mudita, joy 
    
        2022-11-06
            Day_4.1 Joy 
    
        2022-11-06
            Day_4.2 Practice in Daily Life - Meditation & Yoga 
    
        2019-11-16
            Dependent Arising 
    
        2016-11-18
            Development of Meditative Awareness 
    
        2012-09-09
            Dharma discussion: Grasping Practice Experiences 
    
        2021-11-14
            Dharma Talk and Contemplation of the Four Elements 
    
        2021-07-10
            Dharma talk on meaning of 3 refuges, with focus on Buddha and Dharma 
    
        2021-07-11
            Dharma talk on Refuge in Sangha 
    
        2018-07-22
            Dharma talk on the Paramis and discussion on Practice in Life 
    
        2021-11-13
            Dharma talk: Welcoming the whole body in all its identities; practice the prece… 
    
        2016-04-02
            Discovering Impermanence Through Mindful Attention 
    
        2014-11-14
            Discovering Wisdom in the Body 
    
        2014-05-30
            Ease and Presence in the Body 
    
        2016-05-07
            Embodied Wisdom 
    
        2016-11-18
            Embodied Wisdom 
    
        2023-07-21
            Embracing Sister Death as Our Teacher 23-07-21 
    
        2012-05-04
            Entering into the Retreat Environment 
    
        2012-10-12
            Equanimity 
    
        2013-01-25
            Equanimity 
    
        2013-01-26
            Equanimity, a Boundless Quality of Heart 
    
        2023-07-20
            Exploring the Teaching on Non-self 23-07-20 
    
        2017-07-21
            Feeling Tone 
    
        2017-07-21
            Feeling, Craving, Clinging, Selfing 
    
        2017-07-20
            Finding our Home in the Body 
    
        2017-03-18
            Finding Our Way Through Loss and Grief to Peace 
    
        2018-08-10
            First Morning Instructions 
    
        2023-07-22
            Forgiveness 23-07-21 
    
        2018-07-20
            Generosity 
    
        2018-09-08
            Generosity of Spirit 
    
        2014-06-01
            Going Home Q&A 
    
        2023-07-17
            Gratitude and .Generosity 23-07-17 
    
        2018-02-03
            Gratitude and Kindness Body Scan 
    
        2019-11-02
            Grounding our Lives in Kindness 
    
        2019-12-31
            Grounding our Lives in Kindness 
    
        2013-11-16
            Guided Body Scan 
    
        2019-07-18
            Guided body scan with compassion and gratitude 
    
        2012-08-24
            Guided compassion meditation 
    
        2015-06-22
            Guided Lovingkindness meditation 
    
        2023-07-17
            Guided meditation - mindfulness in the body 23-07-17 
    
        2011-11-05
            Guided Meditation – Body Scan 
    
        2013-01-26
            Guided Meditation on Equanimity 
    
        2019-07-20
            Guided meditation on Equanimity 
    
        2018-07-20
            Guided meditation on generosity 
    
        2017-11-24
            Guided Meditation on Gratitude for the Body 
    
        2023-07-22
            Guided meditation on Joy 23-07-22 
    
        2017-11-25
            Guided Meditation on Loving-friendship 
    
        2015-11-13
            Guided Meditation on Lovingkindness  
    
        2015-03-28
            Guided Meditation on Lovingkindness 
    
        2016-04-02
            Guided Meditation on Lovingkindness 
    
        2018-07-19
            Guided meditation on opening to joy through calming the body and mind 
    
        2016-07-08
            Guided Meditation on the Body and the Four Elements 
    
        2011-11-04
            Guided Meditation on the Breath 
    
        2018-10-27
            Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 
    
        2018-11-16
            Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 
    
        2019-11-16
            Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 
    
        2023-07-20
            Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 23-07-20 
    
        2015-11-14
            Guided Meditation on Tonglen (Compassion Practice) 
    
        2017-01-14
            Guided meditation opening with metta 
    
        2014-05-31
            Guided meditation: Abiding in the Heart 
    
        2014-07-27
            Guided meditation: Abiding in the Heart 
    
        2019-11-14
            Guided Meditation: Finding Ease in the Body 
    
        2014-11-14
            Guided meditation: Metta  
    
        2019-07-19
            Guided meditation: Pointing out instructions 
    
        2014-07-25
            Guided meditation: Pointing out the Nature of Awareness 
    
        2014-05-30
            Guided meditation: Resting in Open Awareness 
    
        2015-06-24
            Guided meditation: Seeing the Empty Nature of Mental States 
    
        2021-11-13
            Guided meditation: whole body awareness 
    
        2017-07-20
            Guided Metta 
    
        2019-04-12
            Guided metta 
    
        2024-11-07
            Guided Metta 
    
        2018-08-10
            Guided Metta from Joanna Macy 
    
        2025-07-16
            Guided Metta in the Body 
    
        2013-11-15
            Guided metta meditation 
    
        2021-07-10
            Guided metta meditation 
    
        2018-11-10
            Guided Metta practice 
    
        2025-07-15
            Guided Metta Practice 
    
        2017-03-04
            Guided Metta Practice, Perth Daylong 
    
        2018-10-27
            Guided Open Awareness Practice 
    
        2021-11-14
            Guided practice – Radiating Compassion 
    
        2016-07-09
            Guided Practice of Metta 
    
        2023-07-18
            Guided radiating metta practice 23-07-18 
    
        2021-11-14
            Guided sitting with silence 
    
        2024-11-08
            Guided Tonglen 
    
        2018-04-14
            Guided tonglen and silent sitting 
    
        2017-01-14
            Guided tonglen practice 
    
        2017-07-21
            Guided tonglen practice 
    
        2018-07-21
            Guided tonglen practice 
    
        2021-11-14
            Guided with silence – Embodied Awareness 
    
        2014-07-25
            Identifying the Mental Factor of Perception 
    
        2012-08-25
            Insight into Impermanence, Suffering and Non-Self 
    
        2016-07-08
            Insight into Impermanence, Suffering and Non-self 
    
        2025-07-14
            Insight Into the Three Characteristics 
    
        2013-09-21
            Insight into Three Characteristics--3 facets of a single jewel 
    
        2021-11-14
            Instructions and sitting: Mindfulness of breathing: Opening to Joy 
    
        2014-07-25
            Instructions in insight meditation 
    
        2015-11-14
            Instructions in Insight Practice 
    
        2021-11-13
            Instructions in mindfulness and guided meditation 
    
        2017-07-21
            Instructions in Vipassana 
    
        2017-11-25
            Instructions on Practice, 2nd day: Sutta on Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2018-07-22
            Instructions: Impermanence, Dispassion, Cessation, Relinquishment 
    
        2012-09-20
            Interdependence: Contemplation on the four elements 
    
        2011-11-06
            Intimacy 
    
        2019-11-14
            Intro to Insight Meditation 
    
        2019-06-08
            Intro to the Four Boundless States, Guided Metta 
    
        2013-01-25
            Intro to Vipassana 
    
        2023-07-22
            Joy and Equanimity 
    
        2025-07-16
            Letting the mind be as it is 
    
        2018-07-21
            Liberating Insight into Impermanence 
    
        2014-07-27
            Living from a Place of Freedom, Mindfulness and Insight 
    
        2015-06-25
            Living from Presence in Daily LIfe 
    
        2012-09-18
            Love 
    
        2023-07-18
            Love 23-07-18 
    
        2016-11-19
            Love and Compassion in Insight Practice 
    
        2014-05-31
            Love is What We Are 
    
        2011-09-17
            Love, Compassion, Forgiveness 
    
        2017-06-11
            Love, Kindness and Ethical Conduct 
    
        2017-12-02
            Meditating with Death as our Teacher: guided Tonglen 
    
        2017-12-02
            Meditating with Death as our Teacher: talk and guided meditations 
    
        2017-10-21
            Meditation for Calmness, Clarity and Compassion 
    
        2017-10-21
            Meditation for Calmness, Clarity and Compassion II 
    
        2012-08-24
            Meditation is Coming Home to our Body and Mind, Guided Body Meditation 
    
        2019-12-30
            Meditation on Abiding in the Body 
    
        2025-07-14
            Metta Instructions 
    
        2019-11-15
            Metta Practice 
    
        2018-10-25
            Metta practice - breathing and smiling 
    
        2016-11-18
            Metta Practice, guided meditation 
    
        2024-11-07
            Mindfulness 
    
        2018-04-14
            Mindfulness and Social Engagement talk and dialogue 
    
        2019-11-14
            Mindfulness Immersed in the Body 
    
        2013-11-15
            Mindfulness of Body 
    
        2018-11-15
            Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2018-10-25
            Mindfulness of Breathing and guided meditation 
    
        2018-07-21
            Mindfulness of Feelings 
    
        2018-11-17
            Mindfulness of Feelings 
    
        2015-11-13
            Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2018-07-19
            Mindfulness with Breathing, Guided meditation: Exploring the Breath 
    
        2018-07-19
            Mindfulness with Breathing: First Instructions 
    
        2018-11-15
            Mindfulness, Internally and Externally 
    
        2018-11-10
            Moral Intelligence and Integrity 
    
        2019-04-12
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-06-08
            Not Believing Our Own Stories 
    
        2013-09-19
            Not Knowing and Radical Acceptance 
    
        2018-06-16
            Nourishing the Roots of Joy 
    
        2019-02-23
            Nourishing the Roots of Joy, talk and dialogue 
    
        2021-07-10
            Opening talk and guided sitting 
    
        2019-06-07
            Opening the Heart to Grief Connects us to Life 
    
        2012-08-24
            Opening to the Shadow with Compassion 
    
        2016-11-20
            Our Life is Our Practice, Part 1 
    
        2016-11-20
            Our Life is Our Practice, Part 2 
    
        2018-08-11
            Pain is the World, Love is the World 
    
        2014-05-31
            Perceptions and Misperceptions of Self 
    
        2018-10-28
            Practice in Daily Life & Q&A 
    
        2014-11-15
            Practice in the Body in Daily Life 
    
        2021-07-11
            Practice instructions, guided meditation 
    
        2014-05-31
            Practice of Self-Inquiry 
    
        2025-07-15
            Practicing with strong emotions with RAIN 
    
        2015-06-23
            Presence of Heart 
    
        2021-11-13
            Radiating metta 
    
        2013-11-16
            RAIN - Working with Difficult Emotions 
    
        2015-11-14
            RAIN and Equanimity 
    
        2024-11-09
            RAIN instructions for strong emotional states 
    
        2017-07-20
            Range of Meditation Practices + Guided Relaxation 
    
        2017-06-09
            Reconnecting with the Body, Heart and Mind 
    
        2024-11-10
            Reflections on Living our Practice, Q&R 
    
        2016-10-02
            Relationships and Intimacy 
    
        2019-04-12
            Relationships are at the Heart of our Lives 
    
        2014-11-15
            Relinquishing the Story of Self 
    
        2023-07-22
            Right Effort 
    
        2019-12-30
            Samatha 
    
        2014-03-29
            Samattha instructions 
    
        2019-11-15
            Samattha Practice and the Hindrances 
    
        2019-07-17
            Satipatthana: Body 
    
        2019-07-20
            Satipatthana: Dhammas (7 Awakening Factors) 
    
        2019-07-18
            Satipatthana: Feelings 
    
        2019-07-19
            Satipatthana: Mind (5 hindrances) 
    
        2019-11-16
            Seeing Deeply into the Nature of our Experience 
    
        2024-11-08
            Sensations and Feeling Tone 
    
        2011-09-11
            Simplicity of Practice 
    
        2017-07-22
            Spiritual Feelings 
    
        2018-10-26
            Stopping the Wheel of Suffering 
    
        2017-11-24
            Sutta on Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 1 
    
        2017-11-25
            Sutta on Mindfulness of Breathing: Seeing with the Eyes of Wisdom 
    
        2025-07-17
            The Five Elements 
    
        2018-07-20
            The Four Right Efforts 
    
        2018-11-16
            The Hindrances to Clear Awareness 
    
        2016-07-09
            The Play of Self and No-self 
    
        2018-04-29
            The Power of True Kindness 
    
        2018-02-03
            The Power of True Kindness, talk and discussion 
    
        2018-07-19
            The Practice of Mindfulness and the Anapanasati Sutta 
    
        2015-06-24
            The Spectrum of Meditative Practices 
    
        2016-10-01
            The Story of Me 
    
        2018-11-18
            Thoughts and Discussion about Living our Practice 
    
        2023-07-22
            Tonglen practice 23-07-21 
    
        2018-11-17
            Tonglen practice and chanting 
    
        2016-11-19
            Tonglen Practice, guided meditation 
    
        2019-12-31
            Vipassana 
    
        2015-06-22
            Vipassana instructions 
    
        2014-07-26
            We Live in Appearances 
    
        2015-03-28
            What is Mindfulness? 
    
        2023-07-18
            Wheel of Awareness meditation 23-07-18 
    
        2023-07-20
            Whole body mindfulness 23-07-20 
    
        2012-05-05
            Wonder is Not Knowing 
    
        2018-11-17
            Working Skillfully with Strong Emotions 
    
        2023-07-19
            Working with Afflictive Emotions in Practice 23-07-19 
    
        2016-07-09
            Working with Difficult Emotions 
    
        2013-01-26
            Working with Difficult Emotions, RAIN 
    
        2024-11-09
            Yoga in Daily Life - David Schouela 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
    --
        Select one of Daryl Lynn Ross's 37 retreats
     -- 
    
        1900-01-01
            TNI Regular Talks 
    
        2011-09-11
            Mindfulness in Daily Life Retreat, Montreal 
    
        2011-11-03
            Mindfulness of the Body: Practices for Insight and Freedom 
    
        2012-05-04
            Vipassana 101: Introduction to Insight Meditation 
    
        2012-08-23
            Insight and Compassion: The Two Wings of Awakening 
    
        2012-09-09
            Mindfulness in Daily Life  
    
        2012-09-16
            Retraite urbaine Montréal / Montreal urban retreat, Mindfulness in Daily Life 
    
        2013-01-24
            Equanimity: Unshakeable Balance of Mind 
    
        2013-09-17
            Mindfulness in Daily Life/L'attention au quotidienne 
    
        2013-11-14
            Presence with Body: Meditation and Yoga retreat 
    
        2014-03-28
            Introduction to Insight Meditation: A Welcome to Beginners and Returners 
    
        2014-07-24
            Opening to the Mystery 
    
        2014-11-13
            Presence with Body: Meditation and Yoga Retreat 
    
        2015-03-27
            Introduction to Insight Meditation 
    
        2015-06-21
            Embracing Life Fully: Living from Presence 
    
        2015-11-12
            Presence with Body: Meditation and Yoga retreat 
    
        2016-04-01
            Introduction to Insight Meditation 
    
        2016-07-07
            The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings 
    
        2016-11-17
            Presence with Body: Meditation and Yoga retreat 
    
        2017-06-08
            The Dharma of Relationships 
    
        2017-07-19
            The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings 
    
        2017-11-23
            Abiding Mindfully in the Body: Meditation and Yoga retreat 
    
        2018-07-18
            The Awakening Heart 
    
        2018-08-09
            Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha 
    
        2018-10-24
            The Four Noble Truths: Undoing the Causes of Our Suffering 
    
        2018-11-14
            Abiding Mindfully in the Body: Meditation and Yoga Retreat 
    
        2019-04-11
            Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha 
    
        2019-06-06
            Moving Through Loss and Grief to Freedom 
    
        2019-07-16
            Simple, Profound and Liberating: Discovering the Essence of Dharma 
    
        2019-11-13
            Abiding Mindfully in the Body: A Meditation and Yoga Retreat 
    
        2019-12-29
            Arnprior New Year's retreat 
    
        2021-07-10
            Finding Refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha 
    
        2021-11-13
            Abiding Mindfully in the Body: Meditation and Yoga 
Retreat 
    
        2022-11-03
            Meditation and Yoga Retreat 2022 
    
        2023-07-17
            Finding our Ground in Generosity, Love and Wisdom 
    
        2024-11-06
            Abiding Mindfully in the Body: Meditation and Yoga Retreat 
    
        2025-07-13
            Coming Home to Our True Heart