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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2022-06-15 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness 19:48
Tara Brach
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This meditation begins by relaxing through the body, and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include sounds and sense the openness to life. At the center of the practice is a relaxing back, and inhabiting spacious awareness. The meditation ends as we experience the heart from the vantage of spacious awareness, and offer prayers to our inner life and all life.
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2022-06-15 The Three Steps of Letting Go 44:45
Tara Brach
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A wonderful inquiry is, “What is between me and openhearted presence?” This talk explores the profound healing and transformation that arises when we release the blocks to our natural and loving awareness.
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2022-06-08 Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 56:36
Tara Brach
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In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world– with courageous, wise hearts.
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2022-06-08 Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence 14:54
Tara Brach
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Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”
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2022-06-01 Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence 19:11
Tara Brach
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Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norris, “Sharing Silence.”
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2022-06-01 Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 46:05
Tara Brach
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In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding – to ourselves, each other and our world – with courageous, wise hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-25 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.) 21:25
Tara Brach
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This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
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2022-05-25 Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear 46:46
Tara Brach
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We are living with the threat of increasing, dramatic suffering around the globe. This talk looks at the direct ways our meditation practices, supported by findings of neuroscience, can help us find resilience and an open heart in the face of an uncertain and frightening future. It includes a number of short reflections and meditations.
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2022-05-18 Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:27 min.) 18:26
Tara Brach
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This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world.
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2022-05-18 Self-Forgiveness with RAIN 57:57
Tara Brach
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Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blaming ourselves traps us in fears, prevents intimacy with our world, and veils over the goodness and mystery of who we are. This talk includes several reflections that can support us as we cultivate a wise and forgiving heart.
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