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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
Tara Brach
A pervasive but often invisible source of suffering in our culture is self-aversion. We are a busy culture, and we move through our life feeling anxious and dissatisfied, but not fully conscious of how we neglect or judge our inner experience. We suffer from a lack of belonging: to our own bodies, to each other and to the earth. When we practice Buddhist meditation, we learn how to listen deeply and hold our life tenderly.
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2021-11-03 Meditation: The Return to Presence – Rest Your Mind in What Is (21:17 min.) 21:17
It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and awakening through the body. We then rest in open awareness, and when the attention drifts, guide ourselves to rest our minds, over and over, in the aliveness and presence that is right here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2021 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2021-11-10 Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (27:02 min.) 27:01
This RAIN meditation helps us explore pathways to nurturing ourselves in a way that brings profound transformation and healing.
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2021-11-17 Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (16:26 min.) 16:27
When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting in loving presence and offering loving prayer.
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2021-11-24 Meditation: Energy and Source (19:21 min) 19:21
Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise to this ever creative living world.
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2021-12-01 Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (24:31 min.) 24:34
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others.
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2021-12-08 Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:26 min.) 18:25
We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, our inner refuge becomes increasingly stable and openhearted. This meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
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2021-12-15 Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (16:48 min.) 16:48
Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing the breath as a home base. By gathering and collecting the attention, the mind can settle and allow for a relaxed, wakeful presence.
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2021-12-29 Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:24 min.) 20:23
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings and sounds in an intimate, allowing presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2021-22 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2022-01-01 Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? (9:26 min.) 9:26
Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are invited to attune to the state of our heart and our deepest aspiration.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2021-22 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion
2022-01-05 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:55 min.) 16:54
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
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