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2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 62:42
Tara Brach
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are too: don’t leave this companionship… The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full. - rumi
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 1:42:54
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-06 Mindfulness and delusion: going beyond the four distortions 64:53
Mark Nunberg
Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-05 The Power of Mindfulness 51:01
George Mumford
Five spiritual powers: a joyful journey of self-discovery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 Fall into life: Simple Mindful Presence 62:38
Howard Cohn
Settling into our personal essence and noticing the different identity views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 RAIN of Forgiveness 1:14:37
Tara Brach
The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-03 Morning instructions and Q&A 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Establishing mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-02 Building a foundation for mindfulness 63:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How do we know when we are being mindful, and what will help us get there?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

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