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Insight Meditation Community of Washington
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IMCW Audio Dharma (Teaching Talks):

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Guest Speakers - Wednesday Nights at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Bethesda, MD - 7:30pm:

Date	Title	Teacher	Length	File Size
2010-07-23	Meditation	Jonathan Foust	26:01	4.7 MB
	The Art of Listening Listening is a spiritual discipline. As we train ourselves to listen inward we come into intimate contact with the aliveness of way things really are. Our capacity for self-awareness, we notice, directly impacts our capacity to be in relationship with others. This talk explores the blocks to listening and how, in moments, we can open to the possibility of presence.		42:14	7.3 MB
2010-05-05	Meditation	Anh-Huong Nguyen	27:09	4.7 MB
	Happiness		54:15	9.3 MB
2010-04-14	Meditation	Cheri Maples	20:50	3.6 MB
	Ten Tips for Spring To learn more about visiting teacher, Cheri Maples, please see her "Mindfulness and Justice" website at www.mindfulnessandjustice.org.		1:08:04	11.6 MB
2010-03-10	Awakening Joy	James Baraz	01:03:00	10.8 MB
2009-07-29	Meditation	Cheri Maples	23:33	4.0 MB
	Engaged Buddhism: The Role of Spirituality in Working for Peace and Justice Several who attended this dharma talk of visiting teacher Cheri Maples asked how to learn more about her. Please see her "Mindfulness and Justice" website at www.mindfulnessandjustice.org for more about Cheri Maples and her work.		52:52	9.0 MB
2009-07-22	Meditation	Anh-Huong Nguyen	23:12	4.0 MB
	The Four Nutriments The Buddha said, “When something has come to be, we have to acknowledge its presence and look deeply into its nature. When we look deeply, we will discover the kinds of nutriments that have helped it come to be and that continue to feed it.” He then elaborated four kinds of nutriments that can lead to our happiness or our suffering – edible food, sense impressions, volition, and consciousness.		56:02	9.6 MB
2009-07-15	Meditation	Hugh Byrne	25:09	4.3 MB
	Befriending Our Experience		54:46	9.4 MB
2009-05-13	Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield: An Evening of Questions and Responses	Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield	1:01:05	10.4 MB
2008-10-22	Fearless Simplicity	Tsoknye Rimpoche	1:21:50	14.0 MB
2008-09-10	Introduction and Meditation	Ruth King	23:27	4.0 MB
	Healing Rage Rage sits at the threshold of personal transformation. Those of us seeking enlightenment will inevitably stumble upon the undeniable truth of personal rage on the path. Rage is not to be understood as a useless emotion, empty of story, knowledge, or wisdom. Rather rage is fierce clarity and untapped fuel. Embraced with compassion, this trapped energy becomes an intimate and empathic teacher of balance and integrity in our lives and service. Ruth King, author of Healing Rage—Women Making Inner Peace Possible, shares an inspiring perspective on rage and its healing properties. Discover how when you are paying kind attention to rage, it ceases to be a problem. For more information visit http://healingrage.com.		47:55	8.2 MB
2008-08-06	Conscious Suffering as a Path to Liberation or, "Suffering Need Not be a Bummer" The question of suffering--and how to find an end to it--is at the core of the Buddha's teachings. Here we explore two kinds of suffering: 1) the suffering that leads to continued suffering; and 2) the suffering that leads to an end of suffering. The way out of suffering, the Buddha taught, requires a conscious willingness to remain present with what is--even, and perhaps particularly, when we are experiencing difficulty or unpleasantness, in body, heart or mind. Mindfulness and compassion in exploring our own experience are keys to finding an end to suffering.	Hugh Byrne	52:01	8.9 MB
2008-07-30	Meditation	Luisa Montero-Diaz	29:29	5.0 MB
	Finding a Way to the Stillness WIthin Despite the ever-changing phases, ups and downs, of practice, once we find a way to the stillness within....once we discover, even for one moment, that within this mind-body lies an opportunity for peace, equanimity and happiness that is not dependent on certain situations or conditions, there is no turning back. Once uncovered, the stillness of the present moment is and always will be available to us. This talk explores ways we discover the stillness and then return to it over and over again.		50:36	8.7 MB
2008-07-23	Meditation	Hugh Byrne	28.16	4.8 MB
	Touching the Suffering of Our World How do the teachings and practices of the Buddha relate to the suffering and difficulties that we face in our world today? Are these teachings as relevant to the question of how we respond to issues of climate change, war and peace, poverty and injustice, as they are to how we find freedom from suffering in our individual lives? The practices of mindfulness and compassion encourage us to widen the circles of our engagement to include all beings and invite wise action to respond to the myriad challenges facing our world today.		54:22	9.3 MB
2008-07-16	Meditation	Norman Fischer	27:14	4.7 MB
	Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls		49:47	8.6 MB
2008-05-07	Meditation	Phillip Moffitt	24:19	4.2 MB
	Dancing With Life		47:04	8.1 MB
2008-02-13	Meditation - 5 Ways to Concentration	Sylvia Boorstein	35:01	6.0 MB
	Happiness is an Inside Job		51:27	8.8 MB
2008-01-23	Meditation and talk on Mindfulness	Anh-Huong Nguyen	1:12:59	12.5 MB
2008-01-16	Meditation	Pat Coffey	30:43	5.3 MB
	Wisdom and Compassion		51:38	8.9 MB
2007-11-07	Meditation	Hugh Byrne	25:41	4.4 MB
	The Dharma in the West		53:10	9.1 MB
2007-10-24	Karma	Lorne Ladner	55:31	9.5 MB
2007-09-12	Meditation	Frank Ostaseski	27:39	4.8 MB
	Five Precepts of Service		45:09	7.6 MB
2007-06-20	Leaving the Familiar	Dori Langevin	1:05:10	11.2 MB
2007-06-06	Getting There While Being Here	Lama Surya Das	1:03:50	11.0 MB
2007-05-16	All About Me	Larry Yang	53:49	9.2 MB
2007-03-21	Meeting the Seasons	Pat Coffey	40:00	6.9 MB
2006-12-06	Letting Go	Hugh Byrne	58:52	10.1 MB
2006-11-01	The Buddhist Cosmology - Revolutionaries In Samsara	Noah Levine	46:53	8.1 MB
2006-09-20	Living In the Body	Jonathan Foust	49:56	8.6 MB
2006-07-19	Compassion	Dori Langevin	1:00:25	10.4 MB
2006-07-12	Awakening to Joy	Luisa Montero-Diaz	53:05	9.1 MB
2006-07-05	Finding True Refuge	Hugh Byrne	57:59	9.9 MB
2006-04-17	Adyashanti	Adyashanti	1:02:43	10.7 MB

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