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Dharma Talks
2015-11-09 Introduction and Guided Compassion Practice 46:29
Brian Lesage
This talk introduces the practice of compassion and offers a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-04 Compass of Our Heart 50:26
Tara Brach
All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, we can discover the deep aspiration that guides and energizes our awakening hearts and minds. This talk explores the movement from egoic intention to liberating intention…the movement from “my will” to “my hearts will."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-23 This is Suffering, This is Compassion 38:23
Beth Sternlieb
Compassion and wise inner speech as a bridge back to the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-16 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:44
Marcia Rose
This talk explores a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience and some effective way to work with them through the powerful tools in our practice of concentration, mindfulness, metta and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-15 Day Two: Guided Metta 25:07
Arinna Weisman
Compassion for ourselves in our childhood, teenage years, adulthood + aging process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community

2015-10-15 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:33
James Baraz
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento
La shares their journey of acceptance and love through the practices and teachings of self-compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Compassion and the Law 1:27:20
Norman Fischer
A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Effective Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective Retreat

2015-10-05 Awakening the Heart - Practicing the "Divine Abodes" 43:40
Donald Rothberg, Heather Sundberg
The Divine Abodes of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity are the places of the awakened heart. Practicing to cultivate these four abodes helps us to access these wonderful and transformative qualities of the open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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