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Hugh Byrne's Dharma Talks
Hugh Byrne
Hugh Byrne, Ph. D. is a senior teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. He completed a four-year teacher training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society led by Jack Kornfield. Hugh is also trained in and teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and has completed training in Somatic Experiencing, a mind-body approach to healing trauma. He is a co-founder of the Washington Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
2013-12-31 Guided Heart Metta Meditation with Poetry 41:51
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2013-12-28 Meditation - Heart Metta with Instruction 43:06
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2012-12-29 Meditation: Lovingkindness 42:43
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2012-12-28 The Transforming Power of Mindfulness 67:49
What we accept we go beyond: when we bring a kind and non-judging awareness to our experience we align ourselves with the truth of how things are and open to liberating insights that lead to release from suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2011-12-31 The Bodhisattva Path: Turning Suffering into Compassion 67:49
The path to alleviating the suffering of the world leads through the gateway of meeting our own suffering with compassion. When we open fully to our own suffering, we transmute it into compassion and it can move through us into the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2011-12-28 Guided Heart Meditation 43:37
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2010-12-31 Guided Heart Meditation - Lovingkindness 44:43
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2010 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2010-02-25 Loving Kindness Meditation 31:13
Guided meditation on loving-kindness with some discussion of the Brahma Viharas' Divine Abodes.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2009-02-17 Third Noble Truth: Cessation Of Suffering 62:36
A talk on the Third Noble Truth - the cessation of suffering - as part of a retreat on the four Noble Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Twelve Insights of the Four Noble Truths
2007-05-07 Is There An End To Suffering? 64:30
Using suffering as a gateway to ending suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

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