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

2015-10-10 Walking Meditation Instructions (includes a sitting "walking" practice) 8:44
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 10:05
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Meditation 30:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 10-Minute Basic Guided Meditation 10:30
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-07 Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 1:12:33

Tara Brach

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How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence. "Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-30 The Sacred Pause 1:10:09

Tara Brach

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When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something’s wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning to pause, and the blessings that arise when step out of our incessant mental and physical activity and reconnect with the being-qualities of presence, wisdom and love.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 1:11:49

Tara Brach

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If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-05 The Artist - formally known as Buddha 59:33
Ruth King	Download Listen
Exploring our interdependence, what we habitually see and don’t see, and the joy and generosity of an artistic expression.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-05 Heart Meditation: Letting go of Judgment 18:10
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-05 Letting Go of Judgment (retreat talk) 53:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The scales of judgment confine us in a limited sense of self, they restrict the depth and fullness of our loving. This talk explores the genesis of projecting badness on to parts of ourselves and others, and how we can use mindfulness and self-compassion practices to evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat