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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
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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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2016-11-06 The Wings of Awakening - Self-Honesty and Love 62:25
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We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the "second arrow" of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional reactivity, and the pathways of awakening awareness that reconnect us with our full human potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2016-11-05 Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness 24:56
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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. “What’s it like when you communicate your appreciation of goodness to another person?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 68:50
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The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” - the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cynicism that is resisting and opposing life. In this talk we explore how to evolve our consciousness by bringing “yes” - clarity and loving acceptance - to the parts of our being we have been unwilling to feel. This loving “yes” reconnects us to our basic goodness and helps others do the same.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-10-26 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times 63:59
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On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated ways of practice that help us to awaken from a limiting self-sense characterized by “something is wrong with me, or you.” In addition to guided meditations, our time includes sharing from participants.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-10-19 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 3) 66:32
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The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series examines the process of radical self-honesty – the non-judgmental recognition of what’s going on inside us, and especially what has been outside of our conscious awareness. The second talk deepens this process with the practices of self-inquiry, looking directly into the one who is seeking truth. The third part explores the challenges and blessings of honesty in our relationships.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-10-12 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) 1:12:41
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The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series examines the process of radical self-honesty – the non-judgmental recognition of what’s going on inside us, and especially what has been outside of our conscious awareness. The second talk deepens this process with the practices of self-inquiry, looking directly into the one who is seeking truth. The third part explores the challenges and blessings of honesty in our relationships.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-10-05 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 1 of 3) 1:11:31
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The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series examines the process of radical self-honesty – the non-judgmental recognition of what’s going on inside us, and especially what has been outside of our conscious awareness. The second talk deepens this process with the practices of self-inquiry, looking directly into the one who is seeking truth. The third part explores the challenges and blessings of honesty in our relationships.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-09-28 Spiritual Empowerment 1:17:16
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When we are trying to control life, we are removed from presence, and act in ways that separate us from others and solidify the experience of being a insecure self. This talk explores our often unconscious strategies of seeking power, and the ways that mindful and compassionate awareness reconnects us to the source of true empowerment. When empowered we tap into the universal flow of love, wisdom and creativity. We are free to respond to life with “a heart that is ready for anything.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-08-31 Letting Go – The Freedom of Awake Awareness 1:12:52
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We know we need to let go of harmful habits like obsessive worry, blame and over consuming to experience true well-being, yet much of the time we are stuck and judge ourselves for being out of control. This talk explores what’s so difficult about letting go and how we can’t will it but we can be willing. We then explore the shift to awake awareness that enables a natural dissolution of clinging and resistance, and the deep peace and freedom of letting be.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2016-08-27 Retreat Instruction on RAIN with Question-Response 14:23
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Women's Retreat - The Heart of Buddhist Meditation

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