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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-03-10
Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening
19:51
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Tara Brach
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| Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the poem “lost” by David Wagoner. |
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2021-03-10
The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2
50:52
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Tara Brach
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| Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true listening, and offer teachings and practices that can directly cultivate this invaluable capacity. |
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2021-03-03
Meditation: Aliveness and Presence
20:49
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this changing dance of life. |
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2021-03-03
The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1
65:35
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Tara Brach
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| Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true listening, and offer teachings and practices that can directly cultivate this invaluable capacity. |
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2021-02-24
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness
18:38
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Tara Brach
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| By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with presence. We then open into the continuous awake space that is both within and surrounds the body. When we notice the mind drifts, we relax back to be that awake space, aware of the changing flow of sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds. |
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2021-02-24
Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are
59:18
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Tara Brach
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| A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This capacity is blocked by our identification with our “mask” or ego self, and not seeing past other people’s masks. In this talk we reflect together on some key filters of superior/inferior and good/bad that shape the trance of a narrowed identity, and then explore how mindfulness and kindness free us to inhabit the vastness of our natural awareness. We close with tasting the possibility of bringing the spirit of Namaste to ourselves, others and all beings. |
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2021-02-17
Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace
18:20
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Tara Brach
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| Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. |
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2021-02-10
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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2021-02-10
The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing
40:52
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Tara Brach
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| The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, and how we can cultivate this superpower in a way that reveals the light or spirit that lives through all beings. |
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