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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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2017-06-21
Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence
23:59
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Tara Brach
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This guided meditation instruction includes:
1 – Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake,
2 – Further collecting the attention using a primary anchor or base, and
3 – Continuing to collect around an anchor or widening to rest in open, natural awareness – in presence with what is.
Given as part of the morning guided meditation Instruction on the Spring 2017 IMCW Retreat.
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2017-06-28
Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness
17:43
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Tara Brach
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This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness.
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2017-06-28
Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence
52:20
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Tara Brach
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When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.
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2017-07-05
Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence
52:40
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Tara Brach
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When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.
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2017-07-05
Brief Meditation: Entering the Wilderness
5:59
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Tara Brach
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We open to our full naturalness as we awaken the senses. This brief meditation guides us to open all the sense gates, and in that openness, experience the pure aliveness and awareness that is our essence.
NOTE: listen to the full talk: Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence.
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2017-07-12
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence
14:59
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Tara Brach
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This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.
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2017-07-12
Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real
48:40
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Tara Brach
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Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love.
A quote by Elizabeth Lessor from the talk: “My prayer to god every day: Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.”
NOTE: Tara was away this week and asked for this favorite talk from 2014-11-05 be posted.
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2017-07-19
Love is Always Here
55:27
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Tara Brach
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One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness.
Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.
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2017-07-26
Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile
18:45
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Tara Brach
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This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender.
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