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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2010-06-16 The Fires of Loss 60:52
Tara Brach
We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with loss. This talk describes the refuge of presence in the face of loss, and the gift of timeless love that arises as we make peace with the reality of this living, dying world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-06-09 The Unreal Other 1:12:06
Tara Brach
When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance and sometimes obvious injury. This talk explores how we create separation from others, and the ways we can awaken from this trance and live from genuine empathy and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-06-02 Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 2 1:21:33
Tara Brach
Relating Wisely with Fear Part 1 and 2 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-26 Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 1 1:24:16
Tara Brach
Relating Wisely with Fear Part 1 and 2 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-19 Desire and Spiritual Freedom 1:18:31
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of "wanting mind," trancing back desire to its source, and radical non-clinging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-12 Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind" 1:20:19
Tara Brach
While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the ways we get hooked, and offer a deep, mindful attention to the energies of craving and clinging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-06 Guided Heart Meditation - In Dyads 39:39
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Morning Instruction - Question & Response 13:46
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-06 Meditation--Radiance-Sutra 5:58
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

2010-05-04 Evening Prayer 1:24
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW Spring Residential Retreat: Intimacy With Life

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