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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-02-03
Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1
51:10
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Tara Brach
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| Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence. |
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2021-01-27
Meditation: Sacred Presence
20:12
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation guides us to wakefully relax with the changing flow of moment to moment experience. As we open our senses fully, we discover the sacred living presence that is our very essence. |
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2021-01-27
Spiritual Hope
52:52
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Tara Brach
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| Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust in the openhearted awareness (bodhichitta) that is always and already within us. This talk explores how, as individuals and as a society, we can nourish spiritual hope, and create the grounds for healing and radical transformation (a favorite from the archives). |
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2021-01-20
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence
12:17
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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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2021-01-20
Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2
55:53
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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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2021-01-13
Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1
44:04
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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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2021-01-13
Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence
19:12
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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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2021-01-06
The Three Refuges – Gateways to Awakening
1:10:26
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Tara Brach
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| We all seek refuge, a sense of safety or homecoming amidst the uncertainties of life. Our way of finding refuge can either imprison or free us. This talk explores the false refuges that entrap us in feeling separate and endangered, and the refuges of Awareness (Buddha,) Truth (Dharma) and Love (Sangha) that reveal our true nature. This evening gathering includes a ceremony with candles, reflection and music. |
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2021-01-06
Meditation: A Present Heart
18:32
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Tara Brach
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| One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence. |
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2020-09-23
Freedom from the Prison of Limiting Beliefs
56:06
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Tara Brach
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| We suffer when we are caught in beliefs of our own or other’s badness, unworthiness, or lack of value. These beliefs hurt our bodies, lead to violent and/or addictive behaviors, and separate us from our own heart and each other.
This talk explores how we can discover who we are beyond these beliefs by recognizing when we are trapped, and learning how to turn to presence and love (dedicated to Ruth Bader Ginsburg). |
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