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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2019 IMCW Spring 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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2019-05-03 (8 days)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2019-05-07
Seeing Clearly into the Nature of Reality
58:36
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Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores what happens when you deeply relax and pay attention to your moment-to-moment experience.
You’ll learn about the process of settling attention in the here and now, how to recognize the characteristics of what is changing and the subtlety of how you are relating to change and how to reflect on being aware of awareness itself.
This talk is from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.
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2019-05-08
Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 5: Arriving and Opening to Flow
34:36
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Jonathan Foust
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In this fifth morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan, directed to an anchor of your choosing with options to more deeply investigate challenges that arise and toward the end of the meditation you’ll be invited to rest in presence and turn your attention toward awareness itself.
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2019-05-08
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk)
62:06
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Tara Brach
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This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self. We then explore the practices of presence and self-inquiry that turn us toward the openness, tenderness and wakefulness of our Being. Our trust grows as we increasingly glimpse, embody and live from our natural Being.
NOTE: This talk was given at the Spring 2019 IMCW 7-day Silent Retreat.
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2019-05-09
Heeding the Call to Inner and Outer Peace (Retreat Talk)
50:56
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Jonathan Foust
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This final evening talk of a weeklong retreat explores mindfulness through the lens of the hero’s journey.
You’ll learn about the call to inner practice, how to work the trials and challenges that arise, the process of opening to insight and the reflection on your return home.
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