Insight
Meditation Community of Washington
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Insight
Meditation Community of Washington |
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IMCW Audio Dharma (Teaching Talks):
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The talks below are freely available for download. All files are in .mp3 format. To download, right-click (or Control-click on the Mac) and select "Save As". Questions, suggestions or comments? Contact the web audio coordinator. |
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2007 - Wednesday Nights at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Bethesda, MD - 7:30pm:
| Date | Title | Teacher | Length | File Size |
| 2007-12-19 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 18:50 | 3.2 MB |
| The True Revolution In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This awakening into wholeheartedness is the true revolution. |
49:53 | 8.6 MB | ||
| 2007-12-12 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 24:48 | 4.3 MB |
| The Path of Transformation
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52:05 | 8.9 MB | ||
| 2007-11-21 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 23:15 | 4.0 MB |
| Gratitude and Generosity When we feel grateful, there is a sense of homecoming. We are connected with what we cherish, and in that abundance, our natural response is generosity. This talk explores two pathways that directly give rise to gratitude and generosity: full presence, and the intentional remembrance of what we love. |
53:17 | 9.2 MB | ||
| 2007-11-14 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 23:50 | 4.1 MB |
| Lovingkindness: Living with a Wise Heart The Buddha taught that our fear is great, but greater yet is the truth of our connectedness. These two talks examine the often unconscious habits that generate the pain of separation, and the practices that allow us to realize and live from an awake heart. |
55:54 | 9.6 MB | ||
| 2007-11-07 | Meditation | Hugh Byrne | 25:41 | 4.4 MB |
| The Dharma in the West | 53:10 | 9.1 MB | ||
| 2007-10-31 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 26:43 | 4.6 MB |
| Stress, Presence and Freedom
We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and relaxing with what is arising, can cut through this conditioning and gift us with the realization of our true nature and the capacity to love fully. |
44:58 | 7.7 MB | ||
| 2007-10-24 | Karma | Lorne Ladner | 55:31 | 9.5 MB |
| 2007-10-17 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 25:57 | 4.5 MB |
| The Three Refuges - 2 | 56:48 | 9.8 MB | ||
| 2007-10-10 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 20:52 | 3.6 MB |
| The Three Refuges - 1 In Buddhism there are three, interdependent gateways to freedom. Called refuges, they are the expressions of truth that carry us home to the essence of what we are. These two talks investigate the way we take "false refuge"--habitual ways of trying to control experience--and the profound happiness and peace in discovering true refuge. |
50:59 | 8.8 MB | ||
| 2007-10-03 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 24:23 | 4.2 MB |
| The Path of Peace Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to respond with compassion to life. The practices of presence allow us to recognize this conditioning and awaken to the truth of our connectedness, to the wisdom and love that make peace possible. |
48:34 | 8.3 MB | ||
| 2007-09-26 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 29:21 | 5.0 MB |
| The Gift of Silence Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process of the thinking mind. This talk explores practices that allow us to settle in a natural way, the presence which is silence itself, and the wisdom and love that flows freely when we live from that silence. |
48:59 | 8.4 MB | ||
| 2007-09-19 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 29:59 | 5.2 MB |
| The Joy of Conscious Relationships
We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and gives rise to genuine happiness and inner freedom. This talk explores the teachings and practices that nourish conscious relationships. |
54:03 | 9.3 MB | ||
| 2007-09-12 | Meditation | Frank Ostaseski | 27:39 | 4.8 MB |
| Five Precepts of Service | 45:09 | 7.6 MB | ||
| 2007-09-05 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 28:03 | 4.8 MB |
| Pathways to Happiness The Dalai Lama often begins his talks "Everyone wants to be Happy... Nobody wants to suffer." It's true, and yet sadly, our ways of pursuing happiness are often the very cause of suffering. This talk describes the shadow side of seeking happiness, and the practices of presence that lead to spiritual freedom and genuine happiness. |
50:18 | 8.6 MB | ||
| 2007-08-29 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 28:54 | 4.8 MB |
| Wise Effort - Cultivating and Engaged Presence A wholehearted commitment to awakening is intrinsic to the spiritual path. Yet often this becomes a striving kind of effort that is generated out of the sense of a "doing self." This talk reflects on the grounds of wise effort: connecting to our deepest intention, and cultivating a genuinely allowing, engaged, presence. |
50:18 | 8.6 MB | ||
| 2007-08-22 | Meditation | Tara Brach | 29:07 | 5.0 MB |
| Touching Enlightenment with the Body Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our experience- our unlived life. This rejected energy is stored in our bodies and prevents us from living wakefully and wholeheartedly. By bringing a courageous, mindful presence to bodily sensations our energies untangle and flow freely. Rather than a frightened resisting "self" we rediscover our full aliveness, connectedness and luminosity of Being. |
45:03 | 7.8 MB | ||
| 2007-08-15 | The Soul of the Whole Our incessant inner dialog contracts us into the sense of a small limited self. The practices of presence - noticing and allowing our experience - awakens us from this limiting identity and allows us to realize the loving awareness that is our essence. |
Tara Brach | 51:47 | 8.9 MB |
| 2007-08-08 | Deprogramming the Story of Self Our life experience is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves and the underlying belief that "something is wrong with me." Meditation allows us to recognize and release the grip of the stories that confine our sense of wholeness, peace and inner freedom. |
Tara Brach | 54:16 | 9.3 MB |
| 2007-08-01 | The Art of Loving | Tara Brach | 59:40 | 10.2 MB |
| 2007-07-25 | Healing with R.A.I.N. | Tara Brach | 58:24 | 10.0 MB |
| 2007-06-27 | Genuine Devotion | Tara Brach | 56:10 | 9.6 MB |
| 2007-06-20 | Leaving the Familiar | Dori Langevin | 1:05:10 | 11.2 MB |
| 2007-06-13 | Realizing Our Basic Goodness - 2 Our greatest suffeirng is not realizing who we are. Identified with a sense of separate and deficient self, we forget the basic goodness of our heart and awareness. In this two part series we will explore the practices of presence that support us in awakening from the prison of trance, deepening our empathy and embodying the goodness that is our deepest nature. |
Tara Brach | 50:12 | 8.6 MB |
| 2007-06-06 | Getting There While Being Here | Lama Surya Das | 1:03:50 | 11.0 MB |
| 2007-05-30 | Realizing Our Basic Goodness - 1 Our greatest suffeirng is not realizing who we are. Identified with a sense of separate and deficient self, we forget the basic goodness of our heart and awareness. In this two part series we will explore the practices of presence that support us in awakening from the prison of trance, deepening our empathy and embodying the goodness that is our deepest nature. |
Tara Brach | 54:25 | 9.3 MB |
| 2007-05-23 | Resistance Is Futile - 2 | Tara Brach | 53:49 | 9.6 MB |
| 2007-05-16 | All About Me | Larry Yang | 53:49 | 9.2 MB |
| 2007-05-09 | Resistance
Is Futile - 1 Our basic suffering can be described as resistance-being at war with our experience. These two talks explore how, through letting go, we discover the love and awareness that is our natural awareness. The first talk emphases our capacity to relax and awaken through the body, and untangle the emotional energies that armor our heart. The second talk looks at how our thoughts and beliefs can imprison us in a sense of separation and limitation. We investigate the power of "not knowing" as a gateway to the truth and mystery of what we are. Both talks include guided meditations. |
Tara Brach | 56:07 | 9.6 MB |
| 2007-04-11 | The Two Wings of Freedom | Tara Brach | 53:05 | 9.6 MB |
| 2007-04-04 | What You Long for is Already Here | Tara Brach | 48:39 | 8.4 MB |
| 2007-03-28 | The Winds of Homecoming | Tara Brach | 51:55 | 8.9 MB |
| 2007-03-21 | Meeting the Seasons | Pat Coffey | 40:00 | 6.9 MB |
| 2007-03-14 | Compassion in Action | Tara Brach | 55:09 | 9.5 MB |
| 2007-03-07 | Getting Unstuck | Tara Brach | 46:46 | 8.0 MB |
| 2007-02-28 | Awakening from the Trance - 2 | Tara Brach | 43:16 | 7.4 MB |
| 2007-02-21 | Awakening from the Trance - 1 | Tara Brach | 47:56 | 8.2 MB |
| 2007-02-07 | Self-Forgiveness - 2 | Tara Brach | 59:42 | 10.3 MB |
| 2007-01-31 | Self-Forgiveness - 1 | Tara Brach | 49:09 | 8.4 MB |
| 2007-01-24 | The Path of Transformation | Tara Brach | 49:47 | 8.6 MB |
| 2007-01-17 | The Art of Practice - 2 | Tara Brach | 57:14 | 9.8 MB |
| 2007-01-09 | The Art of Practice - 1 | Tara Brach | 54:48 | 9.4 MB | 2007-01-08 | The Three Refuges | Tara Brach | 1:01:33 | 10.6 MB |
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