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Dharma Talks
given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2021-06-09
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts
17:33
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Tara Brach
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| We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home. |
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2021-06-09
Trusting the Gold – A Celebration of Tara’s New Book
1:26:22
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Tara Brach
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| The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk explores the two key pathways that help us awaken from the trance of identifying as a limited, separate self. It includes several guided meditations and a period of questions and response. |
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2021-06-02
Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness
24:13
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Tara Brach
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| Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom. |
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2021-06-02
Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2
56:28
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Tara Brach
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| All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path. |
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2021-05-26
Meditation: Embodied Spirit
16:55
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Tara Brach
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| Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being. |
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2021-05-26
Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1
46:56
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Tara Brach
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| All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path. |
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2021-05-19
Meditation: Yes to Life
18:48
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Tara Brach
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| In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presence that welcomes the changing flow of life. |
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2021-05-19
Entering the Mystery
54:24
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Tara Brach
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| John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginners mind” that enables us to encounter this living world with freshness, courage and wonder (a special talk from the 2013 archives). |
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2021-05-12
Meditation: Being Here for Life
18:03
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Tara Brach
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| It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat Schneider called “Instructions for the Journey.” |
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