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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018-01-17 Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness 20:44
Tara Brach
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We begin with listening and then bring a receptive attention to experience the life of the body. We then open the attention to the whole field of sensations and sound, and rest in the openness and presence that includes all the changing currents of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-17 Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us – Part 1 46:54
Tara Brach
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A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves. These two talks explore how we subscribe to societal myths and beliefs that perpetuate this “bad othering,” and “bad selfing.” They then guide us in bring a healing attention that can reveal the goodness that lives through all beings, and our innate connectedness. A core teaching is, “the boundary to who we include in our hearts is the boundary to our freedom.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-10 Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness 21:36
Tara Brach
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This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliveness and the space that holds and is intrinsic to all life. A body scan using this breath opens us to the body as a field of aliveness. We then rest in the changing flow of experience, and the still presence that is our essence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-10 Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees Our Heart 50:41
Tara Brach
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The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of our future. This talk explores the difference between “limbic” intentions driven by grasping or fear, and intentions that are the call of our awakening heart. You will learn how to identify and shift from a “limbic” to wise intention, and several different ways you can more readily and regularly access your deepest aspiration.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-03 Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom 55:07
Tara Brach
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This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner aspects of each refuge, and then through guided reflections and a Refuge Ritual, deepen our commitment to the pathways that awaken our minds and free our hearts. NOTE: Includes a Refuge Ritual at the end of the talk – if you’d like to participate, you’ll need some red string. We use “Classic crochet thread, size 10 in red” about 36 inches per person – available at craft stores. Sing along with The Three Refuges Chant sheet (www.tarabrach.com/three-gateways-peace-freedom/)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-03 New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 22:26
Tara Brach
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Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and in widening circles, to our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-01-01 Continuing the Practice 9:57
Kaira Jewel Lingo
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2017-12-31 The Bodhisattva in Difficult Times 66:21
Hugh Byrne
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This talk explores the Buddhist archetype of the bodhisattva and its universal quality across spiritual and other traditions of commitment to the transformation and awakening of one’s own heart for the benefit and freedom of all beings. The civil rights movement in the U.S.—and the role and courage of Rosa Parks and other ordinary people—is presented as a ‘bodhisattva movement’ and a model and encouragement for the challenges we face today.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2017-12-31 Morning Instructions from the New Year’s IMCW Retreat 39:10
Jonathan Foust
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These morning instructions, from the final morning of a five-day retreat, offers guidance for concentration (focus), mindfulness (flow) and resting presence (letting go).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2017-12-30 Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) 62:32
Tara Brach
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The sign of spiritual freedom is a deep trust in our essential nature, and in the light of awareness that lives through all beings. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in a trance of separation and believing in a limited self. We then explore the evolutionary shift in identity that is possible as we deepen our attention and presence to the life that is here, and the loving awareness that is the source of existence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

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