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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-05-05
Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence
18:31
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Tara Brach
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| We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here. |
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2021-05-05
Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer
53:23
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Tara Brach
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| Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to our prayers. |
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2021-04-28
Meditation: From Head to Full Being
19:05
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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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2021-04-28
Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings
60:00
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Tara Brach
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| The ritual of Namaste - bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others - helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home. |
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2021-04-21
Meditation – Opening to Full Aliveness
18:31
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Tara Brach
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| Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our senses and discovering the vitality and presence that express our natural being. |
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2021-04-21
Belonging to the Earth
48:39
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Tara Brach
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| As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and sustains this trance of forgetting. We then explore the ways we each can awaken a sense of loving connectedness and active caring toward our natural world. |
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2021-04-07
Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence
23:39
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings. |
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2021-04-07
Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real
48:32
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Tara Brach
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| Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love (a favorite from the archives). |
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