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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2022-03-09
Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen
23:39
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Tara Brach
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| Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, a compassion practice or tonglen, is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence (re-mastered from the 2013 IMCW fall 7-day silent retreat). |
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2022-03-09
Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval
45:21
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Tara Brach
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| Engaged spirituality means responding to our world’s suffering with wisdom and deep care. This talk looks at three blocks to aligning our actions with our heart – “bad othering,” dissociation and overwhelm. We explore how we can awaken from each reaction to suffering by drawing on our practices of presence and remembering our larger belonging. |
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2022-03-02
Meditation: Being a Kind Witness
18:46
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Tara Brach
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| Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness. |
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2022-03-02
Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence
41:58
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Tara Brach
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| If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores how, when we’re reacting from anger, clinging or fear, to pause, reconnect to the immediate experience of “just this” and remember the love and awareness that has room for the changing waves of life. |
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2022-02-23
Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care
15:52
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Tara Brach
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| This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.” |
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2022-02-23
Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace
49:17
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Tara Brach
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| Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liberating acceptance, a heartspace that includes all of life and enables us to respond to our world with deep intelligence and compassion. all life. |
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2022-02-16
Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives
27:21
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Tara Brach
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| This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat). |
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2022-02-16
Cultivating Loving Kindness - Seeing the Goodness
56:46
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Tara Brach
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| The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life. |
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2022-02-09
Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness
22:41
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, clear awareness. |
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2022-02-09
Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing
53:57
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Tara Brach
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| The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroying our larger body, Earth. We then look at the pathways of awakening to the truth of “interbeing” and responding to our precious world with love. |
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