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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2018-12-12
Meditation: Aware and Alive
19:59
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Tara Brach
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| Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that includes, and gives rise to this entire creation. Opening in this way allows for homecoming to wholeness and freedom. |
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2018-12-12
Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
51:25
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Tara Brach
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| Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives - includes working with sleep issues. |
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2018-12-19
Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence
18:00
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Tara Brach
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| This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer. |
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2018-12-19
Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully
36:58
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Tara Brach
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| This talk looks at three ways of awakening our hearts—seeing goodness, feeling appreciation as a bodily experience, and expressing our care. We are then guided in developing each of these capacities by focusing our attention on someone we care about, with whom we’d like to experience our full potential for loving. |
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2018-12-26
Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO
51:21
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Tara Brach
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| Two common fears can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the archives). |
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2019-01-09
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be
16:57
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Tara Brach
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| 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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2019-01-09
Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering
56:02
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Tara Brach
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| This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20” red string.) |
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2019-01-16
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness
20:04
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Tara Brach
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| When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs – no bell at end). |
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2019-01-16
Realizing Your Deepest Intention
49:31
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Tara Brach
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| The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart. |
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