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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life
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| 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 led each day. |
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2018-10-05 (8 days)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018-10-07
Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat
31:15
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Tara Brach
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Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
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2018-10-07
Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear
59:35
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Tara Brach
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While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physical tension, anxious thinking, emotions and behaviors; and how this constellation prevents us from inhabiting our full wisdom and love. We then explore two interrelated pathways of healing—unconditional presence, and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat).
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2018-10-08
Intimately Embodied and Seeing Clearly
57:01
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Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how the more intimately you are aware of your experience in your body right now, the more clearly you can see into the nature of realty.
You’ll learn why in this practice your body is your ‘home base,’ how your ‘issues are in your tissues,’ how to work with challenging issues when they arise and how awareness of your body can reveal insights into three essential characteristics of reality.
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2018-10-09
Meditation: Amplify the Wholesome and Open Focus with Loving Kindness
38:41
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Jonathan Foust
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In this guided heart meditation from the fall IMCW retreat, you’ll explore two separate practices:
1. Investigating ‘wholesome states’ when they arise can be a powerful way to increase your capacity for kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. You’ll be guided into the ‘felt sense’ of a positive state to explore particular qualities that can deepen its presence and significance for you.
2. In the second experience, you’ll be guided into feeling or imagining space in and around the body infused with a quality of loving kindness. (Note: If you feel spacey, ungrounded or the experience feels like it’s ‘too much,’ open your eyes or move to another technique.)
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2018-10-10
The Stars in Our Scars: Opening to Mystery on the Path
58:48
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Sebene Selassie
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The Buddhdharma invites us not to believe anything but to come see for ourselves: the practice transforms our lives and through practice we come to understand the power of this path firsthand. But knowing that the practice works is not the same as knowing how it works. This talk explores the truth of mystery in our practice and in our lives. It invites us to open to the mysteries of the universe as a portal to a deep faith and wisdom on the path.
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