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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2017-10-25 Meditation: Refuge in Presence 18:12
Tara Brach
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-25 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting 53:22
Tara Brach
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
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-19 Qualities of an Awakened Being (Retreat Talk) 60:34
Jonathan Foust
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
"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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-18 Meditation 27:52
Shell Fischer
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-18 Bridging Separation 65:06
Pat Coffey
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
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-10-17 Polishing the Lens of Perception (Retreat Talk) 58:40
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores the lenses through which you view your world. You’ll learn the distinctions between energy and feeling, thoughts and thought-forms as you can expand your capacity to see clearly and with an open heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-10-17 Guided Heart Meditation: Forgiveness 33:13
Sebene Selassie
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-10-16 Ease is Not a Destination, Ease is the Way 54:19
Sebene Selassie
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

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