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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
Tara Brach
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.
2012-05-02 ThuAM-Instructions-Question/Response 13:07
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-05-01 TuePM-Meditation-RAIN-of-Compassion 37:04
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-05-01 TueAM-Instructions-Q-A 14:28
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-05-01 TueAM-Guided-Meditation 24:16
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-04-29 SunAM Q and A 11:22
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-04-29 SunAM Guided Meditation 21:52
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-04-28 SatPM-Instructions-and-Metta-Meditation 39:55
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life
2012-04-25 The World in Our Heart 1:24:54
Some contemporary evolutionary theories track our development from survival of the fittest to group selection whereby we have the capacity for cooperation and empathy. This talk explores how our meditation practice of attending and befriending consciously facilitates the unfolding of our full evolutionary potential. The talk includes a guided meditation that helps us widen the circles of belonging to include all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 1:13:33
Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible when we investigate them with a kind, mindful awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
2012-03-28 Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 1:25:49
Our fear management strategies--versions of fight/flight-- contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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