|
Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
|
|
IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
|
| |
|
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
|
|
| |
|
2007-10-31
Stress, Wakeful Relaxation And Freedom
1:11:20
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and relaxing with what is arising, can cut through this conditioning and gift us with the realization of our true nature and the capacity to love fully. |
|
|
|
2007-10-17
The Three Refuges
1:22:30
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Dharma, Sangha and Buddha - In Buddhism there are three, interdependent gateways to freedom. Called refuges, they are the expressions of truth that carry us home to the essence of what we are. These two talks investigate the way we take "false refuge"--habitual ways of trying to control experience--and the profound happiness and peace in discovering true refuge. |
|
|
|
2007-10-10
The Three Refuges
1:11:32
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Dharma, Sangha and Buddha - In Buddhism there are three, interdependent gateways to freedom. Called refuges, they are the expressions of truth that carry us home to the essence of what we are. These two talks investigate the way we take "false refuge"--habitual ways of trying to control experience--and the profound happiness and peace in discovering true refuge. |
|
|
|
2007-10-03
Path Of Peace
1:12:36
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to respond with compassion to life. The practices of presence allow us to recognize this conditioning and awaken to the truth of our connectedness, to the wisdom and love that make peace possible. |
|
|
|
2007-09-26
The Gift Of Silence
1:18:19
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process of the thinking mind. This talk explores practices that allow us to settle in a natural way, the presence which is silence itself, and the wisdom and love that flows freely when we live from that silence. |
|
|
|
2007-09-19
The Joy Of Conscious Relationships
1:23:42
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and gives rise to genuine happiness and inner freedom. This talk explores the teachings and practices that nourish conscious relationships. |
|
|
|
2007-09-05
Two Kinds Of Happiness
1:18:01
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| The Dalai Lama often begins his talks "Everyone wants to be Happy... Nobody wants to suffer." It's true, and yet sadly, our ways of pursuing happiness are often the very cause of suffering. This talk describes the shadow side of seeking happiness, and the practices of presence that lead to spiritual freedom and genuine happiness. |
|
|
|
2007-08-29
Wise Effort
1:16:01
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Cultivating an Engaged Presence - A wholehearted commitment to awakening is intrinsic to the spiritual path. Yet often this becomes a striving kind of effort that is generated out of the sense of a "doing self." This talk reflects on the grounds of wise effort: connecting to our deepest intention, and cultivating a genuinely allowing, engaged, presence. |
|
|
|
2007-08-22
Touching Enlightenment With The Body
1:13:49
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our experience- our unlived life. This rejected energy is stored in our bodies and prevents us from living wakefully and wholeheartedly. By bringing a courageous, mindful presence to bodily sensations our energies untangle and flow freely. Rather than a frightened resisting "self" we rediscover our full aliveness, connectedness and luminosity of Being. |
|
|
|
2007-08-15
Soul Of The Whole
1:21:28
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
| Our incessant inner dialog contracts us into the sense of a small limited self. The practices of presence - noticing and allowing our experience - awakens us from this limiting identity and allows us to realize the loving awareness that is our essence. |
|
|
|
|
