| |
|
Retreat Dharma Talks
|
|
IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
|
| |
|
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
|
|
| |
|
2019-04-24
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body
19:49
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness. We close with a prayer of loving kindness.
"No matter how often the mind drifts, all that really matters is the quality of heart in the way you come back… to come back with interest and friendliness to this moment, then you plant those seeds for whatever else arises."
|
|
2019-04-24
Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (Duck Meditation)
50:28
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a defended and controlling egoic self. When present, the solidity and constriction of egoic self dissolves, and our heart is free to respond to life with love, compassion, forgiveness and joy. Note: this talk is a favorite from the 2014 archives and includes the “Duck Meditation” and bricklayer stories.
|
|
2019-05-01
Meditation: Being Here
22:40
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. The invitation is to rest in Hereness, fully awake in presence. The meditation ends with a short offering of blessings.
|
|
2019-05-01
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2
54:51
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
|
|
2019-05-15
Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet
21:34
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day for food, the horrors of the animal-food industry, and the impact it has on climate change (second only to fossil fuels.) In this short talk Tara shares her personal story of transitioning to a vegan diet, and invites listeners to investigate, without judgment, their own choices in this domain.
|
|
2019-05-22
Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame
9:45
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and relating to our inner life with greater understanding and compassion.
|
|
2019-05-29
Meditation: Opening to Life
20:46
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts, letting life be just as it is.
|
|
2019-05-29
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 3
52:57
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
|
|
2019-06-05
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Relaxing with Our Life
18:10
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve as an anchor when the mind gets lost in thoughts. As we settle with the breath as a home base, we find we can then open to the changing waves of experience with increasing balance, clarity and ease.
|
|
2019-06-05
An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart
51:00
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom and care. This talk explores the pathway of shifting from reacting to responding: this includes learning to pause, awakening the wings of mindfulness and kindness, and reconnecting with our deepest intention.
|
|
|
|
