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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-07-26 Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life 20:08
Tara Brach
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The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the sensations, feelings, or emotions that are here. Again and again, the invitation is to relax back into presence, intimate with the life living through you. In allowing life to be just as it is, we inhabit pure Beingness, at home in the dynamic and tender awareness that is our shared essence.
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2023-07-26 Intimacy with Life (Part 2) 61:30
Tara Brach
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Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
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2023-07-19 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:34
Tara Brach
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When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
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2023-07-19 Intimacy with Life (Part 1) 54:23
Tara Brach
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Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
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2023-07-12 Meditation: Present Heart 14:15
Tara Brach
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We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with an offering of blessings to our inner life and all beings.
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2023-07-12 Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski 1:33:22
Tara Brach, Frank Ostaseski
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Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given at the Upaya Zen Center on June 25, 2023, includes short meditations and talks by Frank and Tara, and powerful sessions of questions and responses.
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2023-07-05 Meditation: From Head to Full Being 18:56
Tara Brach
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When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being.
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2023-07-05 Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) 57:17
Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust
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“Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
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2023-06-28 Meditation: Loving What Is 18:51
Tara Brach
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While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions to move through us, just as they are. As this allowing presence deepens, it becomes suffused with the tenderness of love.
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2023-06-28 Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice 57:05
Tara Brach
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This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what nourishes them. Together they can serve to open your mind, awaken aliveness and heal your heart.
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