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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2013-07-17 Absolute Cooperation With the Inevitable 1:22:59
Tara Brach
This talk addresses common misunderstandings about acceptance (allowing, "letting be") and explores the challenges and blessings of opening to the raw emotions that we habitually avoid.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-07-03 Part 2: Hope and the Spiritual Path 1:24:38
Tara Brach
In this talk we further define the nature of mature or spiritual hope as part of a trinity that includes trust and love, and explore what blocks its unfolding. We then review how different people have "hit bottom" and found their way to the energy, receptivity and openness of hope.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-06-26 Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path 1:23:19
Tara Brach
This talk looks at the difference between egoic hopes and fears, and the quality of hopefulness ("holy hope") that is an essential dimension in spiritual experience. We reflect on the three components of hope that serve awakening: Aspiration, Trust and Dedication of energy.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-29 Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out Of Your Own Way" 1:16:31
Tara Brach
The depth and vitality of a meditation practice depends on our sincerity, and an attitude of curiosity and friendliness. With this as the grounds, our practice will cultivate the clear seeing and openheartedness that expresses our deepest nature. This talk covers basic ingredients in a meditation practice, and includes a half hour of questions and responses.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-22 Being to Being - Loving Beyond the Trance 1:22:52
Tara Brach
We have strong conditioning to relate to each other from a sense of separateness--persona to persona. This talk looks at what traps us in egoic relating and how several simple yet powerful reflections can open us to pure, unconditioned loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-15 Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Love 1:23:24
Tara Brach
We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlovable, and the ways that mindfulness can dissolve our defenses and reveal our inner refuge of pure loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-08 Remembering Being 1:14:51
Tara Brach
Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual control strategies that keep us from presence; and the role of mindfulness and lovingkindness in reconnecting with the ground of Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-01 Cultivating Practice in the Space Between Craving and Desire for Liberation 1:20:16
Trudy mitchell-gilkey
There is a space between craving and its fulfillment, and that space is the altar of our practice. This talk explores how the practice of mindfulness bridges that space and expands our capacity to stay in the present moment. For it is there, only there, that we can fully comprehend suffering, realize its end and cultivate the Eightfold Path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-01 Guided Meditation - Flower Metta 25:27
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2013 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2013-04-29 The Art of Paying Attention 59:06
Jonathan Foust
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2013 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy With Life

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