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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018-10-08 Intimately Embodied and Seeing Clearly 57:01
Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how the more intimately you are aware of your experience in your body right now, the more clearly you can see into the nature of realty. You’ll learn why in this practice your body is your ‘home base,’ how your ‘issues are in your tissues,’ how to work with challenging issues when they arise and how awareness of your body can reveal insights into three essential characteristics of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-08 Meditation: Awareness of Thoughts (morning instructions and meditation) 41:56
Jonathan Foust
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In these morning instructions from the third day of the IMCW Fall Retreat, you’ll practice arriving fully and intimately in the senses and notice the quality and movement of thoughts, reinforcing a sense of who you are as the one who is aware.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear 59:35
Tara Brach
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While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physical tension, anxious thinking, emotions and behaviors; and how this constellation prevents us from inhabiting our full wisdom and love. We then explore two interrelated pathways of healing—unconditional presence, and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat 31:15
Tara Brach
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Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-06 Chant: Buddam, Dhamman, Sangham 11:20
Sebene Selassie
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-06 On Retreat with the Hindrances - with Sebene Selassie and Jonathan Foust 60:35
Sebene Selassie
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2018-10-06 Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing our Heart (Short talk and Guided meditation) 36:50
Tara Brach
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This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own being and dear ones with a tender, open and loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-03 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 14:48
Tara Brach
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Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is to notice when the mind becomes distracted, and gently return to our breath and senses. This helps the mind to become increasingly settled, calm and clear. We close with a short heart blessing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-10-03 Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom 51:22
Tara Brach
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The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part I we will look at how we can intentionally arouse states of wellbeing, and with practice, develop them into ongoing traits that bring presence and joy to our lives. In Part II, we will investigate how to cultivate an unconditional presence, and the radical acceptance and love, that are the grounds of true happiness and inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-09-26 The Mighty Force of Mudita - Sympathetic Joy 44:14
Shell Fischer
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As the great Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn tells us, “Suffering is not enough.” In order for us to not be pulled under by the great forces of greed, hatred, and delusion in our world, the teachings urge us to continually and consciously nurture the heart and mind states of kindness, compassion, peace, and joy (mudita), which includes a deep wish or aspiration for all beings to be happy and to know the causes of happiness – including ourselves. During this talk, Shell dives into the rich practice of Mudita, and shows us how it can help to more fully open and expand our hearts, and discover more joy in our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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