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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
Tara Brach
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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2019-12-04 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention 18:55
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This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-12-04 Part 1 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World Into Healing 55:04
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Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara’s new book, including pre-order links.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-12-04 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence 19:50
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In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-27 Meditation: Being Here 21:55
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This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies, awaken our senses, and then bring our attention to relaxing with our moment-to-moment experience. The poem ends with a beautiful poem called “Interlude” by poet Danna Faulds.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-27 Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationships 52:28
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Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with gratitude. We end with a guided meditation that includes sharings from the group, and a poem of blessing by John O’Donohue with a brief cut from Robert Gass – Om Namaha Shivaya.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-20 Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence 20:56
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This meditation awakens our senses through a body scan and listening to sound, and then invites us to rest in the presence that spontaneously knows the changing stream of experience. Relaxing back and letting everything be just as it is, reveals the natural presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-20 Listening to the Song - Part 2 52:47
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Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-13 Meditation - The Silence that is Listening 21:05
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Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-13 Listening to the Song - Part 1 52:39
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Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2019-11-07 Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Releasing Blame 37:50
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This meditation explores the meaning of forgiveness and its role in healing and transformation. We then are guided in a forgiveness practice that helps us release the armoring of blame, and inhabit an inclusive and open heart (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

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