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“Those who are Buddhas are always in samadhi, the state like the ocean.” ~ Dogen Zenji
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This series includes talks about Buddhism. Most of the talks are by Judith Ragir, a Zen teacher from Minnesota who studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi for many years. Other talks are from individuals who co-led classes or retreats with Judith. For more information about Judith, visit www.judithragir.org. Related talks can be found at www.cloudsinwater.org.
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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 a ...
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Namaskaram!! I welcome you all to Aadhytamika Nidhi. Aadhyatmika Nidhi is a transliteration of a Sanskrit term which means Spiritual Treasure. .Aadhyatmika Nidhi aims to bring out the significance of Hindhu dharma and to explore the pride that our Hindhu dharma has given. The motive of this podcast is to sow the seeds of Hindhu dharma.I hope my audios will make you drown in the ocean of divinity! Check out our videos @Aadhyatmika Nidhi youtube channel. Om Namaha Shivaya🙏
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Mindfulness Meditation is not a thing — it is an activity of doing. It is a key to an eight faceted practice capable of freeing us from discontent. Being mindful is being deeper than the ocean, stronger than practiced aversion, quicker than chronic bad habits, and easier than pie!
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest…
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Tara Brach: For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together.Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media an…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openhear…
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Tara Brach: Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 2
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(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 he…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Awareness is Our Home
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves…
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(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.By Tara Brach
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Tara Brach: Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 1
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(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 he…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Listening to Life
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(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 ba…
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Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror
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(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, a…
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Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire
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(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, an…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norris, “Sharing Silence.”…
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Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness
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(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, an…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Living Presence – Experiencing Aliveness and Openheartedness (20:04 min)
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(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 t…
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Oren Jay Sofer, Tara Brach: Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer
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(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 Hea…
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Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is (21:48 min.)
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(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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Tara Brach: Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:23 min)
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided meditation practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into presence – the awake space that is …
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Tara Brach: Homecoming to Loving Awareness (retreat talk)
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We have strong conditioning to identify as a separate self, and to feel all the fears and attachments that arise from not realizing our true belonging. This talk includes teachings and several experiential reflections that help us wake up from the trance of separation.As we grow familiar with the awar…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body (21:56 min)
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.…
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Tara Brach: Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Many are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can learn to cherish one another. We talk about the relationship between boundaries and compassion; the unshakeable goodness at our core; how we…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm (20:03 min.)
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guides us in using the breath, body scan, and a home base of presence to find that inner refuge that can carry us through difficult times.…
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Tara Brach: Spiritual Reparenting: Loving Ourselves into Healing
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Mindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit. This talk explores the ways we get trapped in the trance of feeling unworthy and unlovable, and how, with a wise attention, we can profoundly transform our relationship with our in…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listening, and the healing that unfolds when we truly feel heard by another.What happe…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Listening to Life (18:15 min)
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(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 ba…
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Tara Brach: Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: A Conversation between Tara and Lee C. Camp
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian, Lee C. Camp, interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. The conversation includes an unpacking of the RAIN meditation, and stor…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence.It’s so helpful to …
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Widening Rings of Being – Awakening the Senses
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom – the awake space of Being that is beyond the confines of thoughts.“Relaxing back into the space between thoughts. Relaxin…
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Tara Brach: An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas: Connirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP). She developed and wrote a book on the Core Transformation Process, and more recently, the Wholeness Process. Her new book, The Wholeness Work…
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Tara Brach: Do You Feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and tap our capacity for full presence, wisdom and love.By Tara Brach
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Openhearted Presence
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart.“Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are actually pr…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual path to steady our heart and engage with presence, wisdom and care.…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.“Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we are relating to it. See if you can relate with the…
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Tara Brach: Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness.These two talks explore several meditation practic…
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Tara Brach: Meditation: Letting Go of Doing
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then including the play of sound.We then let go of any doing, …
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Tara Brach: Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness.These two talks explore several meditation practic…
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