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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-05-26 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 46:56
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.
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2021-05-19 Meditation: Yes to Life 18:48
Tara Brach
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In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presence that welcomes the changing flow of life.
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2021-05-19 Entering the Mystery 54:24
Tara Brach
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John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginners mind” that enables us to encounter this living world with freshness, courage and wonder (a special talk from the 2013 archives).
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2021-05-12 Meditation: Being Here for Life 18:03
Tara Brach
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It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat Schneider called “Instructions for the Journey.”
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2021-05-12 Bridging the Divide: Learning to Tend and Befriend 52:02
Tara Brach
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One of the great sufferings facing us is the growing divide between humans with different views, different realities. This talk looks at several levels of divides—being at war with ourselves, creating separation in our personal relationships, and societal divides. We then reflect on how we can evolve consciousness from the trance of “Fight, Flight, Freeze” to the wholeness that arises with “Tend and Befriend.”
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2021-05-10 Week Four: The Third Noble Truth—the End of Suffering, Nirvana/Nibbana 1:29:37
Hugh Byrne
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Four Noble Truths: The Buddha’s Core Teachings and Their Relevance in Our Times

2021-05-05 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 18:31
Tara Brach
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We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here.
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2021-05-05 Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer 53:23
Tara Brach
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Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to our prayers.
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2021-04-28 Meditation: From Head to Full Being 19:05
Tara Brach
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When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being.
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2021-04-28 Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings 60:00
Tara Brach
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The ritual of Namaste - bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others - helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home.
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