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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2017-11-22 Meditation: Relax Into Happiness 19:18
Tara Brach
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Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go.” This meditation turns us toward this naturally arising happiness by awakening awareness through the body, and then practicing “relaxing back,” over and over, into the aliveness and presence that is always here.
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2017-11-08 Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness 20:00
Tara Brach
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The primary qualities of a healing and freeing presence are being alert, open and tender. This meditation arouses these qualities by engaging a mindful awareness of the breath, and then a relaxed, gentle attentiveness to the changing experience of the moment. It ends by bringing lovingkindness to ourselves and all beings.
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2017-11-08 Power of Prayer: From Longing to Belonging 46:14
Tara Brach
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When we bring a full presence to prayer, it becomes a powerful pathway of homecoming. This talk explores how prayer heals the pain of separation, and offers practical guidance in what poet John O’Donohue calls “unearthing our ancient belonging.” “What’s it like if you bow your head and whisper and call on something larger?”
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2017-10-25 Meditation: Refuge in Presence 18:12
Tara Brach
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We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, our inner refuge becomes increasingly stable and openhearted. This meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
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2017-10-25 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting 53:22
Tara Brach
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Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention to the unmet needs that underlie angry reactivity. When we learn how to pause and connect honestly with our inner experience, we are then able to respond to others from our full intelligence and heart. “Getting angry with another person is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned.” Buddha
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2017-10-19 Qualities of an Awakened Being (Retreat Talk) 60:34
Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how to be awake in the world. You’ll learn how to determine your progress on the path, how an awakened accepts this life with full responsibility, actively investigates the shadows and cultivates a world of new possibility. This talk is from the 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-10-18 Finding Peace in the Chaos 41:13
Shell Fischer
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"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." ~ Leonard Cohen - During this talk, Shell will be offering a variety of different mindfulness methods we can use to approach and re-discover the calm, peace, and ease of equanimity -- or balanced awareness -- in the face of what are often called the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows that make up all the days and moments of our lives. Shell will explore how, through our meditation practice, we can learn to accept and welcome each moment -- life as it IS -- with as much peace, compassion, and kindness as we can muster, without falling into despair and resignation, and without making anything wrong -- especially ourselves.
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2017-10-18 Meditation 27:52
Shell Fischer
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2017-10-18 Bridging Separation 65:06
Pat Coffey
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Bridging separation is the activity necessary for the survival of our species and the biosphere. Buddhism encourages us to find ways to bridge our internal fragmentation AND bridge all external divides. How can we resist vigorously those we deem involved in causing harm yet not put them out of our hearts? How can we utilize the skills of our practice to bridge the separation we feel with others not like us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-10-18 Meditation: Open Focus and Loving Presence 40:56
Jonathan Foust
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After a short introduction on this technique you’ll be guided into an open focus meditation with an invitation to explore loving presence and spacious awareness. This meditation is from the 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat.
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