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Dharma Talks
2019-10-09
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
21:16
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Tara Brach
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This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-09
Belonging to Each Other – Part 1
51:08
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Tara Brach
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Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These two talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to our own body, heart and spirit, and to all beings. Together the talks offer a natural and powerful progression of lovingkindness or metta reflections, that when practiced regularly can open us to the peace, joy and freedom of trusting our mutual belonging.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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2019-10-09
Beginning Again--Listening for Our Deeper Aspirations
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Donald Rothberg
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On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, when it is said that the veils of ignorance are lessened, we explore ways to “begin again,” both in the moment and more generally,--to re-align our lives, guided also by Buddhist resources and by poets, sages, and activists. Through guided reflections, we examine (1) ways in which we are “off the mark,” in which we need re-alignment; (2) what we wish to let go of and/or forgive; and (3) our deeper aspirations for the next period of time.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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