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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

The New Year is a wonderful time to touch sacred presence and deepen our roots in spiritual life. In this silent retreat we will open our hearts and minds through practices of Vipassana (mindfulness meditation--both sitting and walking sessions), traditional heart meditations (metta), yoga (mindful movement) and evening chanting.

2013-12-27 (6 days) Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

  
2013-12-27 The Five Precepts 11:06
Ruth King
2013-12-28 Morning Instructions and Meditation 33:43
Tara Brach
2013-12-28 Morning Instructions - Question/Response 11:10
Tara Brach
2013-12-28 Walking Meditation Instruction 6:20
Tara Brach
2013-12-28 Meditation - Heart Metta with Instruction 43:06
Hugh Byrne
2013-12-28 Befriending Challenging Energies - Our Limbic Lovers 58:49
Pat Coffey
2013-12-29 Morning Instructions - Question and Response 15:20
Pat Coffey
2013-12-29 Guided Heart Meditation: Metta 25:51
Ruth King
2013-12-29 Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart 66:42
Tara Brach
It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three essential facets of the pathway to awakening: Leaving the fortress of aversive judgment, entering the wilderness of our embodied being and encircling this life with love.
2013-12-30 Morning Meditation 29:23
Tara Brach
2013-12-30 Morning Instructions - Question and Response 9:45
Tara Brach
2013-12-30 Guided Metta Meditation 36:08
Pat Coffey
2013-12-30 On Doing and Being 59:18
Jonathan Foust
As you develop as a contemplative artist, cultivating the ‘middle way’ includes disciplines that require attention and focus as well as practices that call for relaxation and letting go. This talk explores strategies that can help you cultivate that ephemeral internal experience that is ‘not too tight and not too loose.’
2013-12-31 Morning Guided Meditation 29:45
Pat Coffey
2013-12-31 Morning Instruction - Question and Response 12:46
Pat Coffey
2013-12-31 Guided Heart Metta Meditation with Poetry 41:51
Hugh Byrne
2013-12-31 Cultivating the Heart of a Bodhisattva 52:49
Ruth King
This talk explores our bravery and belonging, and how we cultivate the compassionate heart of the Bodhisattva.
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