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Dharma Talks Access for Retreatants
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IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2011-05-01
Remembering Love
54:54
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Tara Brach
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| The habit of self-judgment not only causes emotional pain, it creates a trance that obscures the purity and vastness of our Being. This talk explores how a wakeful and forgiving heart can heal and free us. (Retreat Talk) |
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2011-04-27
The Blessings of Embodied Awareness
1:20:15
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Tara Brach
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| One expression of our suffering is homelessness--feeling cut off from the presence and aliveness that is our source. This talk explores the existential and cultural forces that foster disconnection from our physical and energetic being, the practices that enable us to embrace our unlived life and the gifts of homecoming. |
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2011-04-20
Part 2 - Realizing True Well-being
1:23:21
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Tara Brach
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| Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two part series explores the teachings, practices and attitudes that enable us to live a meaningful life with a heart that is "happy for no reason." |
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2011-04-13
Part 1: Realizing True Well-being
1:15:51
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Tara Brach
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| Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two part series explores the teachings, practices and attitudes that enable us to live a meaningful life with a heart that is "happy for no reason." |
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2011-04-06
Realizing Truth--The Power of Wise Inquiry
55:37
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Tara Brach
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| The Buddha considered investigation to be a crucial capacity on the spiritual path. This talk explores how interest and wise inquiry serve emotional healing, intimacy with others and revealing the truth that sets us free. |
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2011-03-30
Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion
1:16:07
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Tara Brach
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| Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ourselves and the pathway to freeing our hearts. Music at end is Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone?" |
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2011-03-23
Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion
1:18:30
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Tara Brach
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| Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ourselves and the pathway to freeing our hearts. Music at end is Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone?" |
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2011-03-16
Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality
1:22:46
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Tara Brach
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| Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk explores how our ways of grasping and resisting remove us from the spontaneity and aliveness, the love and wisdom, that is our human potential. |
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2011-03-09
Trusting Our Secret Beauty
1:20:58
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Tara Brach
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| When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don't trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt, and the two wings of mindful presence and love that carry us home to our natural wholeness and goodness of Being. |
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2011-03-02
Healing into Life and Death
1:18:34
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Tara Brach
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| Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from physical sickness, we can take refuge in presence and love. |
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