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2014-05-03 Challenging the Energies: Our Organism Loving Itself 61:12
Pat Coffey
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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
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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
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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
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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

2014-04-09 Loving and Losing 1:21:00
Tara Brach
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The way that we relate to impermanence and loss shapes our capacity to live and love fully. This talk, drawing on Mary Oliver’s poem “In Blackwater Woods,” explores three elements in our response to this fleeting, precious life that are integral to our healing and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-04-02 Stress and Our Evolving Consciousness 1:20:04
Tara Brach
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The universal experience of stress (in Buddhism, called dukkha) is a message that we are not realizing, trusting and living from our true nature. Our habitual reactions to stress - grasping, aversion, resistance - deepen emotional pain and lock us in a limiting sense of egoic-self. This talk explores how, with conscious intention and deepened attention, the stressful difficulties we encounter can become the very grounds of healing and spiritual awakening.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-03-26 Planting Ourselves in the Universe 1:15:51
Tara Brach
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When we are lost in the trance of thinking, we disconnect from the aliveness, awareness and love that is our source. Mindfulness, a key capacity of our evolving consciousness, awakens us from an identification with thinking and enables us to inhabit a wider realm of Being. This talk explores the confines of conceptual mind and the simple yet powerful practices that cultivate mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-03-19 Return of the Prodigal Son 1:21:47
Tara Brach
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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 :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-03-12 Part 5: Equanimity - A Heart That is Ready for Anything 1:18:25
Tara Brach
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Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a defended and controlling egoic self. When present, the solidity and constriction of egoic self dissolves, and our heart is free to respond to life with love, compassion, forgiveness and joy.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-03-05 Part 4: Opening to Joy 1:19:08
Tara Brach
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Our innate capacity for joy is blocked by our habitual ways of paying attention. This talk explores three key pathways of presence that connect us with our full openness and aliveness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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