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

Dec 25 2024 15 ep. 35 mins 875

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Tara Brach: Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life

Dec 25 2024 11 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from th

Tara Brach: Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

Dec 25 2024 60 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is our source (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat). I really invite yo

Tara Brach: Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease

Dec 18 2024 16 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.

Tara Brach: Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Valarie Kaur

Dec 18 2024 58 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts? What gives us the courage to bring our whole being into serving and savoring? And what is our vision for a new world? In this fresh and profoundly relevant conversation, Tara Brach and Valarie Kaur explo

Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence

Dec 11 2024 19 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.

Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The Gateway of Equanimity – Part 2

Dec 11 2024 48 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emotional reactivity, and the practices that cultivate equanimity, resilience and a ful

Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence

Dec 04 2024 23 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and practice “relaxing back” when the mind gets lost in thought.

Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The Gateway of Equanimity – Part I

Dec 04 2024 45 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emotional reactivity, and the practices that cultivate equanimity, resilience and a ful

Tara Brach: Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness

Nov 27 2024 24 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practic

Tara Brach: Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Nov 27 2024 52 mins  
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with gratitude. We end with a guided meditation that includes sharings from the group.