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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-07-07 Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice 53:51
Tara Brach
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This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what nourishes them. Together they can serve to open your mind, awaken aliveness and heal your heart.
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2021-06-30 Trusting the Gold: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust 45:12
Tara Brach
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In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic goodness and realizing a mature and liberating quality of trust.
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2021-06-23 Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention 48:32
Tara Brach
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Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear, and ways we can bring compassion to unmet needs and discover the deeper longing – the liberating intention – that guides us to freedom.
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2021-06-16 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome 18:51
Tara Brach
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This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here with unconditional presence.
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2021-06-16 Fierce Self-Compassion – A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff 61:52
Tara Brach
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Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion – tenderness and fierceness.
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2021-06-09 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
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We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
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2021-06-09 Trusting the Gold – A Celebration of Tara’s New Book 1:26:22
Tara Brach
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The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk explores the two key pathways that help us awaken from the trance of identifying as a limited, separate self. It includes several guided meditations and a period of questions and response.
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2021-06-02 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 24:13
Tara Brach
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Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
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2021-06-02 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2 56:28
Tara Brach
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All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-26 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:55
Tara Brach
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Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
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