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

2015-11-11 Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom 1:23:20

Tara Brach

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Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get hijacked into emotional reactivity that creates suffering in our individual and collective lives? This talk explores the U-turn that enables us to offer a healing attention to the feelings and unmet needs under anger. Once present with our inner life, we are able to respond to those around us with wisdom, empathy and true strength.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-11-04 Compass of Our Heart 50:26
Tara Brach	Download Listen
All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, we can discover the deep aspiration that guides and energizes our awakening hearts and minds. This talk explores the movement from egoic intention to liberating intention…the movement from “my will” to “my hearts will."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-21 Awakening Beyond Self 1:25:45

Tara Brach

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Suffering is our call to deepen attention and discover the truth of who we are beyond the identity of a separate, deficient self. This talk examines how thoughts, beliefs and emotions keep us trapped in a confining identity, and two pathways of practice that serve awakening and freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-15 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:33
James Baraz	Download Listen
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-15 Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart 38:01
Tara Brach	Download Listen
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2015-10-15 Morning Instructions on the Final Day of the Fall Retreat: Focus, Flow and Let Go 38:37
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
Short orientation and a guided meditation that moves from concentration to mindfulness to an inquiry into release and surrender.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-15 Morning Instruction and Meditation 38:33
Jonathan Foust	Download Listen
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2015-10-14 Transcending Anger: The Metta Response to Injustice 1:15:05
Trudy mitchell-gilkey	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
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.
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2015-10-14 Guided Heart Meditation: Breathing Through and Bowing to our Adversaries 34:49
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
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2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
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