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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2014-05-06 Metta Chant - (with call and response) 9:00
Trudy mitchell-gilkey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-06 Metta Chant - (no call and response) 4:26
Trudy mitchell-gilkey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-06 Wise and Unwise Effort 62:01
Trudy mitchell-gilkey
The Buddha taught the four great endeavors in the application of wise effort. What we learn is that unwise effort uses the "white knuckle" approach to gain insight and ignores feedback, while wise effort uses wisdom to do the heavy lifting.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-06 Out of the Closet and Into the Dharma 8:47
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-05 Accept Everything and Enjoy the Infinite 64:12
Eric Kolvig
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-04 Return of the Prodigal Son (retreat talk) 1:10:30
Tara Brach
Drawing on Henri Nouwen’s book that interprets this famous parable, this talk looks at the ways we cut off from loving awareness, and the process of homecoming. Our inquiry, reflections and a guided meditation focus on an essential and often overlooked element of transformation: our capacity to trust in love, to let love in.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-05-03 Challenging the Energies: Our Organism Loving Itself 61:12
Pat Coffey
Survival warrants the arising of certain energies. They are not our enemies. If we treat them as such we are continuing the internal warfare and struggle. By seeing energies like lust, fear, hatred, worry, sleepiness and doubt as our organism loving itself we elicit self compassion and understanding....the perfect healing energies and perspective to then move forward into greater ease and connection with all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2014 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-04-30 Part 2 - Conflict - From Fight Flight Freeze to Attend Befriend 1:17:26
Tara Brach
How do we reconcile conflict when caught in reactivity sourced in trauma or deep wounding? This talk looks at the need for a larger field of belonging - a trusted other person or safe group - to engender the presence and compassion that enables us to relax and reconnect with our own wholeness and with others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-04-23 Awakening Through Conflict 1:22:33
Tara Brach
As long as we are identified as separate selves, we will inevitably experience conflict with others. If we learn to release blame and deepen attention to our embodied experience, conflict can become a portal for more loving, alive relationships and awakening into the fullness of our being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-04-16 RAIN - Cultivating a Mindful Awareness 1:22:24
Tara Brach
The acronym RAIN is a powerful tool for interrupting habitual patterns of emotional reactivity and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. This talk explores the components of RAIN, how it works, what makes it transformational and typical challenges people encounter. The teachings include a guided RAIN meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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