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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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A pervasive but often invisible source of suffering in our culture is self-aversion. We are a busy culture, and we move through our life feeling anxious and dissatisfied, but not fully conscious of how we neglect or judge our inner experience. We suffer from a lack of belonging: to our own bodies, to each other and to the earth. When we practice Buddhist meditation, we learn how to listen deeply and hold our life tenderly.
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2012-08-29 Intimacy with Our Inner Life 1:18:49
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Jung wrote that our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can establish a healing presence by recognizing and communicating with the parts of our being that we habitually ignore or judge.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-08-22 Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves 1:21:27
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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-08-15 Part 1: 1000 Serious Moves 1:26:15
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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-08-08 Real But Not True 1:18:24
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One of the most liberating realizations is that we don't have to believe our thoughts. In this talk we look at the suffering caused by limiting beliefs--"I am unworthy, unlovable, unsafe"--and the process by which we open into the full aliveness and potential of our being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-08-01 Back to the Garden 1:16:45
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The suffering of perceiving ourselves as separate selves expresses as fear, aggression, shame and a host of other afflictive emotions. This talk examines how, by taking refuge in the present moment, and taking refuge in love, we reconnect with our wholeness, and the timeless presence that is home. This inquiry includes a guided meditation on the power of prayer to carry us back to our natural belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-07-25 Listening with an Awake Heart 1:15:48
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Listening to our inner life and each other is the grounds of healing, intimacy and love. This talk explores the challenges to offering a listening presence, and the qualities of open receptivity and interest that nourish true communicating.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-07-04 Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step 57:54
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This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our true nature - inquiry and letting go.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-06-27 Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who Is Looking Through the Mask 1:12:19
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We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit - the love and awareness - that animates our own and all beings. In this talk we explore how recognizing our vulnerability and basic goodness helps us to see through the mask and realize who is here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-06-20 Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation) 1:14:14
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Equanimity, the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience, is the grounds for unconditional love and wise action. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in reactivity, and two primary pathways for coming home to this natural state of balance and presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-06-13 Committing to Joy 69:04
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What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to "love what is."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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