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

2012-07-25 Listening with an Awake Heart 1:15:48

Tara Brach

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Listening to our inner life and each other is the grounds of healing, intimacy and love. This talk explores the challenges to offering a listening presence, and the qualities of open receptivity and interest that nourish true communicating.

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2012-07-04 Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step 57:54
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This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our true nature - inquiry and letting go.
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2012-06-27 Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who Is Looking Through the Mask 1:12:19

Tara Brach

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We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit - the love and awareness - that animates our own and all beings. In this talk we explore how recognizing our vulnerability and basic goodness helps us to see through the mask and realize who is here.

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2012-06-20 Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation) 1:14:14

Tara Brach

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Equanimity, the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience, is the grounds for unconditional love and wise action. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in reactivity, and two primary pathways for coming home to this natural state of balance and presence.

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2012-06-13 Committing to Joy 69:04

Tara Brach

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What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to "love what is."

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2012-06-06 Cultivating Compassion 1:15:00

Tara Brach

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We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to include widening circles of beings in our heart.

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2012-05-30 Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love 67:10

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioning blocks us from these expressions of inner freedom, and the understandings and practices that enable us to inhabit our full potential.

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2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00

Tara Brach

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"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.

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2012-05-16 Part 2 - The Lion's Roar 1:13:31

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught that faith--trust in our true nature--is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant and full.

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2012-05-09 Part 1 - The Lion's Roar 1:18:46

Tara Brach

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