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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-04-21 Meditation – Opening to Full Aliveness 18:31
Tara Brach
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Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our senses and discovering the vitality and presence that express our natural being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-04-21 Belonging to the Earth 48:39
Tara Brach
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As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and sustains this trance of forgetting. We then explore the ways we each can awaken a sense of loving connectedness and active caring toward our natural world.
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2021-04-14 “Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - retreat talk 63:24
Tara Brach
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Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holding our own being and all life in a boundless tender heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2021 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2021-04-14 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 17:46
Tara Brach
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This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The meditation ends with lovingkindness for ourselves and our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2021 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2021-04-07 Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence 23:39
Tara Brach
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This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.
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2021-04-07 Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real 48:32
Tara Brach
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Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love (a favorite from the archives).
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2021-03-31 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:55
Tara Brach
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When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
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2021-03-31 Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 2 64:02
Tara Brach
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While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence awakens unconditional loving. These two talks explore the ways we habitually deny or resist reality, and the three interrelated pathways—refuge in the present moment, love and awareness—that liberate us.
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2021-03-24 Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness 19:22
Tara Brach
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Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.
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2021-03-24 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 51:03
Tara Brach
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There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the Archives).
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