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

2016-11-08 Q and A on Pain and Boredom 10:39
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-08 Meditation - Body Scan 35:04
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-07 Meditation: Metta - Heart Practice 32:00
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-07 Morning Instruction with Question and Response 13:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-06 The Wings of Awakening - Self-Honesty and Love 62:25
Tara Brach	Download Listen
We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the "second arrow" of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional reactivity, and the pathways of awakening awareness that reconnect us with our full human potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-06 Forgiveness: Short Talk and Guided Meditation 38:17
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
This short talk and meditation explores the power of forgiveness. You’ll learn the steps for cultivating forgiveness and be guided through a forgiveness meditation. From the IMCW Fall Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-05 The Weather Systems of the Mind 58:31
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
This talk explores the difficult energies that arise in life and how to work with them. You’ll learn strategies for recognizing and working with five mind states that when in full force, make it impossible to be present. This is the first talk evening talk of the IMCW Fall Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-05 Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness 24:56
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others. “What’s it like when you communicate your appreciation of goodness to another person?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 68:50

Tara Brach

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The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” - the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cynicism that is resisting and opposing life. In this talk we explore how to evolve our consciousness by bringing “yes” - clarity and loving acceptance - to the parts of our being we have been unwilling to feel. This loving “yes” reconnects us to our basic goodness and helps others do the same.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-10-26 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times 63:59

Tara Brach

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On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated ways of practice that help us to awaken from a limiting self-sense characterized by “something is wrong with me, or you.” In addition to guided meditations, our time includes sharing from participants.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks