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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Retreat Dharma Talks
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2010-01-20
Presence and Aliveness I & II
1:10:34
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Tara Brach
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These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
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2010-01-27
Presence and Aliveness I & II
1:11:54
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Tara Brach
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These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
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2010-02-03
Deepening Practice
1:27:12
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Tara Brach
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This talk and question/answer format addresses the attitudes and practices that cultivate our natural wisdom and compassion.
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2010-02-24
Living Aligned with the Heart
1:13:21
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Tara Brach
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We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and others, and live from our natural intelligence and tender warmth.
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2010-03-03
Trusting Your Basic Goodness
1:12:58
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Tara Brach
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When we don't trust who we are, we are unable to be at home in our world. This talk explores how we come to be at war with ourselves and the pathway to realizing our basic goodness.
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2010-03-17
Realizing Your True Nature - Four Reflections
1:19:43
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Tara Brach
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This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature--our inherent wakefuness, openness and love--is closer than we can imagine; it is more profound than we can imagine; it is easier than we can imagine; and it is more wondrous than we can imagine.
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2010-03-24
The Blessings of Deep Listening
1:13:01
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Tara Brach
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Our capacity to listen deeply--to our inner life and each other--is the grounds of true understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to listening and guidelines and practices that awaken a listening heart.
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2010-03-31
Meditation and Healing Trauma
1:13:22
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Tara Brach
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Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This talk explores the three key elements that support this process: self-forgiveness, accessing a source of love and safety, and bringing a kind attention to the unlived life in the body.
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2010-04-07
Beyond Small Self
1:15:42
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Tara Brach
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While we are conditioned to become identified with limited sense of self, we have the capacity to recognize and open to who we are beyond the self. This talk investigates our most compelling domains of getting identified, and the ways a purposeful presence can awaken us.
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