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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2015-10-15 Morning Instruction and Meditation 38:33
Jonathan Foust
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-14 Transcending Anger: The Metta Response to Injustice 1:15:05
Trudy mitchell-gilkey
Anger disguises itself as raw energy and gives us a false sense of power and control, keeps us from facing the real root of our suffering, and destroys. Metta is the raw energy of anger cooled down and transmuted into love. Metta heals, guides right action and moves the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-14 Guided Heart Meditation: Breathing Through and Bowing to our Adversaries 34:49
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento
La shares their journey of acceptance and love through the practices and teachings of self-compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-12 Practice as a Path of Happiness 68:49
James Baraz
Dharma practice is not only about learning to be with suffering. Cultivating wholesome states and noticing when they're here is an essential part of practice that leads to the highest happiness. This talk includes some teachings of the Buddha on how to develop happiness in our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-12 Heart Meditation: Loving Presence 33:54
Tara Brach
Lovingkindness (Metta) meditation begins with a smile meditation, then proceeds with calling on loving presence with someone easy to love, then self, others and extending out to the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Guided Metta Meditation on Pain 38:58
Jonathan Foust
From the afternoon Metta meditation at the 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat. Brief instructions and orientation and three guided meditations on shifting your relationship with pain. You’ll explore the zones of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensation, a loving kindness body scan and using mindful breath, offering compassion to your body.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Transforming Your Relationship to Obstacles 59:33
Jonathan Foust
The first evening talk of the 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat, Jonathan talks about the process of settling in and working with the natural challenges that arise in cultivating non-judging awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Guided Heart: Metta 101 37:38
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

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