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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2019-01-16 Realizing Your Deepest Intention 49:31
Tara Brach
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The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be 16:57
Tara Brach
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This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering 56:02
Tara Brach
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This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20” red string.)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-31 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves 26:54
Tara Brach
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We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-30 From Judgment to Self-Compassion 55:58
Tara Brach
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When we’ve turned on ourselves with blame and aversion, it’s very difficult to arouse self-compassion. This talk looks at the role of nurturing in freeing our hearts, and offers practice in three key steps that enable us to embrace ourselves with a healing presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-30 The Wise Heart’s Response to Suffering (Retreat Talk) 56:46
Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how you can more consciously respond to suffering within and around you. You’ll learn how non-judging awareness awakens not only wisdom but your capacity to sense suffering and respond not just with empathy, but with wisdom and skill. This is the final evening talk of the 2018 IMCW New Year’s Retreat
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-30 Meditation: Sympathetic Joy and Loving the Body 42:04
Jonathan Foust
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After a short introduction on techniques for amplifying wholesome states, you’ll be guided into a meditation reflecting on sympathetic joy - cultivating your capacity to find pleasure in the joy, well-being and success of those around you. You’ll then explore a particular practice including a body scan where you’ll deeply feel the space inside the body and reflect on gratitude, appreciation and well-being. This experience is from the afternoon Guided Heart practice in the IMCW 2018 New Year’s Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-26 Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings 11:06
Tara Brach
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Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover deep communion through offering and letting in love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-26 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 51:21
Tara Brach
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Two common fears can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-19 Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence 18:00
Tara Brach
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This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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