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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-10-16
Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self
58:15
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Tara Brach
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The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing – the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-10-09
Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts
10:53
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Tara Brach
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Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance with a growing creativity and love.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-10-09
Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris
1:11:29
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Tara Brach
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How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and practices that can help us all in responding to our world with as much clarity, equanimity and love as possible.
Learn more about Dan Harris and subscribe to his new substack platform at https://www.danharris.com
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-10-02
The Courage to Say Yes – A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
62:23
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Tara Brach
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I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters. In our interview, we talk about the key themes in her poems: grief, love, opening to what’s difficult and what’s beautiful… saying yes to life.
The Unfolding, by Rosemerry Wahtola Tromer, will help you remember the loving that most matters, and to say Yes to this precious life. This is a wonderful gift to your own spirit, and for dear ones in your life! Order Rosemerry’s books, here!
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2024-09-18
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind
25:05
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Tara Brach
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Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention – and including the background sounds. Not pushing away anything – a very open and relaxed, receptive attention.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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