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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2017-08-30 Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart 7:10
Tara Brach
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Love is an innate capacity, and when we intentionally cultivate it, love shifts from a state to a trait. This meditation offers guidance on how to access love, and open ourselves to it in a way that serves this awakening of our hearts. “Know that you’re rewiring your brain, your heart, your body, your mind – and that the more times you do this, the more you really give it 20 or 30 seconds to feel the loving directly, the more access you have to this very innate capacity in your being.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-23 30-Minute Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence 30:00
Tara Brach
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This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into the awake space that is aware of this changing life. NOTE: from August 2, 2017 for those seeking a full 30-minute open awareness guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-16 Meditation: Filling our Body with Love 16:27
Tara Brach
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When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting in loving presence and offering loving prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-16 True Resilience – Part 1: Awakening through All Circumstances 50:01
Tara Brach
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Spiritual resilience enables us to deepen compassion and wisdom as we navigate life’s difficulties. In this two part series, we will look at the conditions that incline us towards or away from True Resilience, and explore practical and powerful practices that nourish this precious capacity.
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2017-08-09 Meditation: Listening to Life 19:20
Tara Brach
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The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-09 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror 55:49
Tara Brach
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This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature. From the talk: “These are three qualities often described as the essence of awareness: wakeful, open, tender.” And a blessing: “May all beings everywhere remember and trust the loving awareness that is our source. May all beings everywhere live in natural and great peace. May we touch true joy in living. May all beings everywhere awaken and be free.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-02 Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:22 min) 19:20
Tara Brach
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This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into the awake space that is aware of this changing life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-02 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire 46:20
Tara Brach
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This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-07-26 Meditation – Relaxing into Sleep (no bell at end) 14:27
Tara Brach
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This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-07-26 Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile 18:45
Tara Brach
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This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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