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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-08-28
Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open
26:26
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Tara Brach
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This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention.
We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that’s here – our senses awake… wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, and open.
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2024-08-28
Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2
58:29
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Tara Brach
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This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible and whole.
“How can we trust basic goodness, what lets us trust?”
“…imagine how might your life change if you dedicated yourself to realizing and trusting this basic goodness sometimes called Buddha nature or loving presence that’s within.”
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2024-08-21
Basic Trust – Part 1
57:39
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Tara Brach
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One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives).
“To love without holding back – to really sense with the wisdom, the reality, that it’s right here – to live from wholeness. We have this capacity.”
“Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty is living through you? How would your life be different if you trusted that spirit, love, awareness is what you are?”
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2024-08-07
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes
20:31
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Tara Brach
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When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings.
“What happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”
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2024-07-31
Love is Always Here
58:22
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Tara Brach
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One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness.
Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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