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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2015-09-05 Letting Go of Judgment (retreat talk) 53:14
Tara Brach
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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

2015-09-04 You Are Not the Weather (retreat talk) 58:40
Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how you can dramatically enhance your capacity to see clearly. You’ll learn about the nature of sustaining attention on non-judging awareness and the liberating practice of recognizing and naming the weather patterns of the mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-04 Guided Metta Meditation 37:36
Ruth King
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-02 Learning to Respond, Not React 1:19:00
Tara Brach
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When stressed, we often react with looping fear-thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause harm to ourselves and/or others. This talk offers three interrelated strategies that can serve us when we’re triggered by stress, and help us find our way back to our natural wisdom, empathy and wholeness of being. By de-conditioning habitual reactivity, we are increasingly able to respond to our life circumstances in ways that serve healing and awakening.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 1:15:02
Tara Brach
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When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance - we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, intelligence and capacity to love. This talk explores how this dissociation shows up in our lives and a powerful way that mindfulness enables us to integrate cut-off parts of our being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-19 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 1:13:31
Tara Brach
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There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential - fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness. Note: This talk is dedicated to Tim Ferriss, who turned me on to the phrase FOMO. Tim exemplifies the creative aliveness of FOMO energy when it’s living through someone who’s dedicated to being awake, caring and real. (check out his podcasts, http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-12 Radical Acceptance Revisited 1:15:27
Tara Brach
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One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can’ t feel love and connection with our world.  This talk looks at the genesis of the “Trance of Unworthiness” and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness can dissolve the trance and reveal the loving awareness that is our essence Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-05 The Sacred Art of Listening 68:42
Tara Brach
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Deep listening - the kind of listening that brings intimacy and understanding - takes intentional practice. This talk looks at the societal and inner obstacles to an undistracted presence, and the mindfulness strategies that nourish our capacity to listen in a way that heals and connects.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-07-29 The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachment and Addiction 49:13
Tara Brach
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In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm of Hungry Ghosts. This talk explores the attachments and addictions that so many of us struggle with, and the teachings and practices that can liberate us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-07-22 That Bird Got My Wings 1:17:46
Tara Brach
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This talk looks at how we are imprisoned by a limited sense of who we are, and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness enable us to realize the spirit that is our essence. We then look at how we can bring the wings of freedom to our engagement with others. The talk’s title is the name of a book written by Jarvis Masters, a deeply wise and inspiring African American man currently on death row at San Quentin prison.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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