Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Aug 28 2024 15 ep. 36 mins 874

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open

Aug 28 2024 26 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind

Tara Brach: Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2

Aug 28 2024 58 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – th

Tara Brach: Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

Aug 21 2024 25 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on.

Tara Brach: Basic Trust – Part 1

Aug 21 2024 57 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives). “To love without holding back – to rea

Tara Brach: Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath

Aug 14 2024 22 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.

Tara Brach: Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home

Aug 14 2024 46 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true

Tara Brach: Meditation: The Blessings of Yes

Aug 07 2024 20 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. “What

Tara Brach: Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home

Aug 07 2024 49 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true

Tara Brach: Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)

Jul 31 2024 19 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender.

Tara Brach: Love is Always Here

Jul 31 2024 58 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming