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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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2010-06-02
Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 2
1:21:33
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Tara Brach
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| Relating Wisely with Fear Part 1 and 2 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip. |
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2010-05-26
Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 1
1:24:16
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Tara Brach
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| Relating Wisely with Fear Part 1 and 2 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip. |
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2010-05-19
Desire and Spiritual Freedom
1:18:31
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Tara Brach
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| The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of "wanting mind," trancing back desire to its source, and radical non-clinging. |
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2010-05-12
Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind"
1:20:19
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Tara Brach
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| While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the ways we get hooked, and offer a deep, mindful attention to the energies of craving and clinging.
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2010-04-28
Embodied Spirit
1:12:55
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Tara Brach
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| The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our body, and the pathways of homecoming. |
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2010-04-21
True Belonging - Refuge in Presence and Relatedness
1:23:31
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Tara Brach
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| We become homesick when our insecurity compels us to find refuge in exclusive affiliations, in over-consuming, in avoiding intimacy or grasping tightly to the approval of others. This talk explores how we come home to the truth of who we are by connecting with our moment to moment experience, and by developing the capacity to be wakeful, giving and receptive in loving relationship. |
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2010-04-07
Beyond Small Self
1:15:42
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Tara Brach
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| While we are conditioned to become identified with limited sense of self, we have the capacity to recognize and open to who we are beyond the self. This talk investigates our most compelling domains of getting identified, and the ways a purposeful presence can awaken us. |
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2010-03-31
Meditation and Healing Trauma
1:13:22
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Tara Brach
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| Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This talk explores the three key elements that support this process: self-forgiveness, accessing a source of love and safety, and bringing a kind attention to the unlived life in the body. |
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2010-03-24
The Blessings of Deep Listening
1:13:01
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Tara Brach
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| Our capacity to listen deeply--to our inner life and each other--is the grounds of true understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to listening and guidelines and practices that awaken a listening heart. |
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2010-03-17
Realizing Your True Nature - Four Reflections
1:19:43
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Tara Brach
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| This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature--our inherent wakefuness, openness and love--is closer than we can imagine; it is more profound than we can imagine; it is easier than we can imagine; and it is more wondrous than we can imagine. |
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