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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2013-12-11
Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
1:27:04
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Tara Brach
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This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence—in relating inwardly and in communicating with others—that awakens and frees our hearts.
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2013-12-18
Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
1:18:50
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Tara Brach
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This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence - in relating inwardly and in communicating with others - that awakens and frees our hearts.
At end of talk - La Sarmiento shares "Holiday Dharma" as part of Solstice celebration.
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2014-01-08
Path of True Refuge
1:23:56
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Tara Brach
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This talk explores the three archetypal gateways to liberation - awareness (Buddha), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha). It includes guided reflections and a refuge ceremony that can help us discover the path “inside out” through daily life.
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2014-01-15
The Power of Metta
1:19:50
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Trudy mitchell-gilkey
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The Buddha's wisdom as expounded in the Karaniya Metta Sutta -2,600 years ago- is powerful medicine that still remains powerful and potent to this day.
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2014-01-22
Listening to the Song
1:24:51
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Tara Brach
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Listening with our full heart and attention is the gateway to understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening, and offers ways of paying attention that awaken a healing listening presence.
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2014-02-05
Part 1: Universal Faces of Love
1:24:25
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Tara Brach
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Lovingkindness, or metta, is the first of the four divine abodes in buddhist teachings. This talk explores the habitual patterns of fears and wants that obscure this innate quality of heart and key ways that we awaken ourselves to its luminous presence.
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2014-02-12
Mindfulness in Education: Enabling Children to Realize their Full Potential
39:28
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Tara Brach
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This talk explores stress-related emotional suffering and how mindfulness and compassion practices can serve our children’s natural intelligence, creativity and openheartedness. Trainings in presence are the hope for this next generation, and the healing of our world.
CULTIVATING RESILIENCE: MINDFULNESS TRAINING FOR STUDENTS ~
How mindfulness training can benefit students and the adults who nurture them An evening with Tara Brach and Congressman Tim Ryan at Walt Whitman HS, Bethesda, MD. Talk given on 2013/10/07.
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2014-02-19
Part 2: Heart of Compassion
1:24:50
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Tara Brach
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Most of us consciously value compassion, but move through much of life without access to the full capacity of our heart. This talk explores the self-compassion that is the very grounds of loving our world.
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2014-02-26
Part 3: A Forgiving Heart
1:21:23
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Tara Brach
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Anger is an intelligent emotion, a natural part of our evolutionary design that lets us know when we are endangered or impeded in our progress. But when it locks into ongoing resentment and blame, our heart becomes armored and we lose access to a wholeness of being. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing our armoring and awakening a healing compassion for ourselves and others.
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2014-03-05
Part 4: Opening to Joy
1:19:08
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Tara Brach
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Our innate capacity for joy is blocked by our habitual ways of paying attention. This talk explores three key pathways of presence that connect us with our full openness and aliveness.
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