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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

Vipassana, or Buddhist meditation, is a way of opening to life and seeing clearly the totality of one’s being and experience. The practice is based on cultivating a present-centered mindfulness, leading to an unfolding of our natural wisdom and compassion.

The focus of this retreat is to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world. In order to help participants discover a sense of stillness and deep listening, silence will be maintained throughout the retreat except during question/answer periods and interviews with the teachers. In addition to sitting and walking meditation practice, there will be sessions of mindful movement each day.

2015-10-09 (8 days) Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

  
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2015-10-12 Practice as a Path of Happiness 68:49
James Baraz
Dharma practice is not only about learning to be with suffering. Cultivating wholesome states and noticing when they're here is an essential part of practice that leads to the highest happiness. This talk includes some teachings of the Buddha on how to develop happiness in our lives.
2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento
La shares their journey of acceptance and love through the practices and teachings of self-compassion.
2015-10-14 Guided Heart Meditation: Breathing Through and Bowing to our Adversaries 34:49
La Sarmiento
2015-10-15 Morning Instruction and Meditation 38:33
Jonathan Foust
2015-10-15 Morning Instructions on the Final Day of the Fall Retreat: Focus, Flow and Let Go 38:37
Jonathan Foust
Short orientation and a guided meditation that moves from concentration to mindfulness to an inquiry into release and surrender.
2015-10-15 Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart 38:01
Tara Brach
2015-10-15 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:33
James Baraz
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
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