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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018-04-30
The Body is the Doorway (Retreat Talk)
58:40
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Jonathan Foust
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| This talk explores why intimate awareness of your body is a portal into seeing clearly into the nature of reality.
You’ll learn how to fully arrive in the Here and Now through conscious relaxation and receiving sensations as they arrive, how to work with challenges as they arise and what you may discover when you embrace this practice.
This talk is from the 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat. |
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2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
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2018-04-25
Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence
22:00
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Tara Brach
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| This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax the body. Following this, we establish our presence with an anchor – the breath, sound or sensation – and practice “coming back” from distractions, and including whatever direct experience asks for our kind attention. The meditation ends with a short loving kindness prayer. |
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2018-04-25
Responding to Change with a Wise Heart
54:48
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Tara Brach
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| An intrinsic part of spiritual life is facing the truth of impermanence. When we open to the changing flow without resistance, we naturally cherish this passing life, and realize the timeless, changeless awareness that is our true home. Yet we are conditioned to grasp on to the passing pleasures (and all that we love) and resist the inevitable arising of stress and unpleasant experience. This talk includes teachings and guided reflections that help us identify the ways we are reacting to major changes in our life. We explore how to shift from reacting to meeting impermanence with an allowing presence, and then responding to our circumstances with wisdom and compassion. |
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2018-04-18
Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky
18:12
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sounds, thoughts, feelings and sensations. The sounding of bells and chimes assists in connecting to and resting in the boundless and loving awareness that is our true home. |
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2018-04-18
Listening with an Awake Heart – Part 2
58:35
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Tara Brach
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| Deep listening – to our inner life, each other and our world – is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong conditioning to be caught in wants and fears, there is often much interference in the field of communications. These two talks are an opportunity to intentionally deepen your capacity to listen in a way that leads to increased understanding and connection. You’ll have the opportunity to investigate what gets between you and deep listening, and to practice the key elements that nurture receptive presence.
The second talk includes questions and responses that focus on having an agenda instead of listening, the feeling that we don’t have enough time, listening when we feel reactive (hurt, defensive, intimidated, angry) and the need to feel heard. |
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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