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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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2015-01-28
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Presence
1:18:26
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Tara Brach
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Our conditioning is to pull away from our physical experience when it is difficult. When we regularly dissociate, we are removed from the source of our power, intuition and capacity to love in a full way. This talk looks at the ways we leave our body and the path of homecoming to living loving presence.
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2015-02-11
Part 1: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice
1:11:42
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Tara Brach
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This two-part series offers a clear and fresh understanding of practices that cultivate mindful awareness. The first class examines our attitude towards practice and gives guidance on posture, establishing an anchor for attention, and learning to concentrate and collect the mind - “coming back.” The second class focuses on the practice of mindfulness - “being here,” and the component qualities of clear recognition and an allowing non-judgmental presence.
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2015-02-18
Part 2: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice
1:26:51
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Tara Brach
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This two-part series offers a clear and fresh understanding of practices that cultivate mindful awareness. The first class examines our attitude towards practice and gives guidance on posture, establishing an anchor for attention, and learning to concentrate and collect the mind - “coming back.” The second class focuses on the practice of mindfulness - “being here,” and the component qualities of clear recognition and an allowing non-judgmental presence.
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2015-02-25
From Dragons to Schmoos - Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence
1:13:23
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Tara Brach
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The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons - the difficult emotions and related behaviors that are a deeply conditioned part of the human experience. In this talk we explore the awakening that is possible as we recognize our reactive patterns and instead of judgment, offer a loving and healing presence.
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2015-03-04
Sure Heart's Release
1:18:52
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Tara Brach
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The pathway to our awaken heart includes deep recognition of our barriers to love, and as we open, the courage to express our love. This talk includes a reflection and practice that can support us in inhabiting our full capacity for loving presence.
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2015-03-11
The Cool Place
1:24:36
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Trudy mitchell-gilkey
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The Buddha's solution to suffering does not involve driving away desire or pushing it underground. The strategy that frees us is right understanding - seeing things clearly as they are - and right intention - shifting our perspective from war to loving kindness. Our untrained minds are conditioned to go right from feeling to craving, stimulus to response. But the wise investigate all phenomena with clear seeing and so learn to bear with whatever arises without need for struggle. This is our practice.
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2015-03-18
Freedom from Fear-Based Beliefs
1:13:28
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Tara Brach
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This talk looks at how we get imprisoned in fear based, limiting beliefs. We then explore key meditative steps that help release these veils and reveal the fullness and goodness of our essential being.
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2015-03-25
Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 - Forgiveness
1:12:54
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Tara Brach
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This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.
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2015-04-01
Three Liberating Gifts: Part 2 - Inner Fire
1:16:34
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Tara Brach
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This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.
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