Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2023-01-25
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – The Power of Self-Nurturing
60:24
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Tara Brach
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While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions.
This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate sufficient safety for the full transformational healing of mindfulness to unfold.
The gift of processing trauma is that the place of woundedness becomes a gateway into profound love, healing, and freedom.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-01-11
Trusting the Gold – Realizing Our Basic Goodness
0:00
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Tara Brach
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(Recording not available)
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Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love and awareness that animate our living world. We investigate the suffering of othering, how the trance of separateness blinds us to our basic goodness, and then explore the practices that open our eyes to the larger truth of our shared belonging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-01-04
Realizing Your Deepest Intention
50:37
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Tara Brach
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The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2022-12-28
Freedom Beyond Selfing
57:23
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Tara Brach
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We spend many moments in a trance of selfing – preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate self. The suffering is that this self-fixation obscures the depth and mystery of our being. In this talk we explore how to relate wisely to selfing, and discover the light and love that express our true nature.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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