Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2014-12-30 "Landlocked in Fur" - Three Domains of Formless Presence 65:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the formless dimension - the pure awareness is our shared source. This talk explores how we can undo the identification with thoughts, emotions and feelings that keeps us landlocked and unable to trust and live from our naturally loving and radiant essence. NOTE: beginning poem is "Landlocked in Fur," by Tukaram, from “Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West” (Ladinksy, 2002)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-30 Meditation: The Luminous Space of Awareness 28:24
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation shifts attention from form to the formless source of all Being. Discover and rest in continuous space, filled with the light of awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-29 Unleashing Your Inner Golden Retriever 51:33
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
This talk explores the transformative power of compassion and kindness. You’ll learn how how to cultivate authentic friendliness in your meditation practice, how to distinguish between pain and suffering and how to heal the judging mind though the practice of forgiveness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-29 Meditation: Grace, Forgiveness, Gratitude 55:52
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-27 Softening the Gripped Mind 55:35
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-27 Meditation: Awakening Loving Awareness (with instructions) 47:47
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-24 Embodying Loving Presence (retreat talk) 68:24
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This talk looks at the evolutionary fear-patterning that creates separation in our relationships, and at the practices that open us to giving and receiving love. (NOTE: talk given at the IMCW summer residential retreat on 2014-08-02)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-17 Intimacy with Life: Part 2 58:50

Tara Brach

Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks

This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-10 Intimacy with Life: Part 1 1:17:47

Tara Brach

Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-11-26 A Generous Heart 1:18:02

Tara Brach

Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks

Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of connectedness and care that gives rise to generosity. As we bring these heart practices alive in our most immediate relationships, they have the power to evolve consciousness in widening circles across the world.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks