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Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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. The open space of compassion allows us to realize that our thoughts and

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46:19

Tara Brach: Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/14

(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 belonging.

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22:58

Tara Brach: Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/14

(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.

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20:31

Tara Brach: Meditation: The Blessings of Yes

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/07

(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 happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”

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49:41

Tara Brach: Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/07

(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 belonging.

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58:22

Tara Brach: Love is Always Here

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/31

(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

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19:03

Tara Brach: Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/31

(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.

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49:16

Tara Brach: From Ego to Eco-Identity – Homecoming to...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/24

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that awaken intimacy with the non-human world.

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17:22

Tara Brach: Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 min.)

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/24

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.

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61:59

Tara Brach: From Head to Heart

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/17

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart.

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20:16

Tara Brach: Meditation: Awareness and Flow (20:17 min.)

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/17

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.

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19:59

Tara Brach: Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/10

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world. “Resting with the breath as a raft might rest and move with the waves…” ~ Tara

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52:12

Tara Brach: Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/10

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit – to live from embodied presence. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually

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58:08

Tara Brach: Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/06/05

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridging divides with those close in, and opening our hearts to those at a distance who we consider a ‘bad other” or enemy. As we cultivate the capacity for true disarming, we experience a growing sense of

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Body and Spirit

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/06/05

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary Oliver.

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57:51

Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/29

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature. The three qualities often described as the essence of awareness: wakeful, open, tender.”

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18:23

Tara Brach: Meditation: Listening to Life

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/29

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.

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49:53

Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/15

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature.

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20:03

Tara Brach: Meditation: Living Presence –...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/15

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order to calm and collect the mind. Then continuing with the conscious breathing, we are guided through the body – bringing attention to sensations and space. This attention becomes a very vibrant living presence, and we end by experiencing that living

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21:48

Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Letting Life Be As It...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/08

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we learn to listen to our inner life without interference, we open to a tender and full experience of presence. This meditation guides us in awakening an intimate quality of listening, as we attend to sensations, moods, sounds and the entire dance of life.

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Oren Jay Sofer, Tara Brach: Living with a Courageous...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/08

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help us connect with our capacities for clarity, bravery and openheartedness. This is what Tara explores with Oren Jay Sofer, in his book entitled: Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love (2023.)Oren teaches mindfulness, meditation

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