Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2016-06-22 Reconnecting with our Lives - Healing from Dissociation 1:14:29

Tara Brach

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Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natural for enduring certain situations, the ongoing habit of dissociation cuts us off from our full aliveness, creativity, and capacity for love. This talk explores the process by which we disconnect from our bodies and feelings - individually and collectively - and the practices that directly enable us to include the “unlived life" - the fear and shame, passion and loneliness - that we’ve pushed away. By including the raw energies we’ve been avoiding, we come home to a fullness that can embrace others and the whole of life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-06-01 Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs 1:11:30

Tara Brach

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Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of separation, self-aversion and/or blame of others. We can free ourselves from harmful beliefs by investigating them with a dedicated, mindful and courage presence. This talk guides us in mindful investigation through an illustrative story, an outline of steps, and a guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01

Tara Brach

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These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 18:04
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 66:25
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Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Meditation: Spacious Awareness and the Immeasurable Heart 41:08
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You’ll be guided through a reflection on spacious awareness (open focus meditation) and a reflection on the immeasurable qualities of the heart. From the IMCW Spring Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Morning Question and Response 16:45
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2016-05-11 Meditation: Space of Awareness 35:22
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Awake awareness includes both the foreground of bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds, and the background of open, still presence. In this meditation we explore discovering interior space and aliveness, and the continuous space that all existence arises and passes in. Resting as a boundless sea of awareness, we are fully open to the changing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 The Key Elements of Practice (Retreat Talk) 58:47
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This talk explores how you can naturally integrate the paradox of the ‘doing’ and ’surrender’ practices in meditation. You’ll learn how concentration practice dramatically cultivates not only your capacity to observe all that changes without judgement, but also how you can intimately investigate challenges that arise and ultimately, how to surrender into effortless awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness 28:50
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Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversive hatred or blame. That you can care about someone and still create boundaries… Each of you has this wisdom, heart, being place that intuits that there really isn’t freedom in the moments that you’re carrying blame and judgment.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life