Dharma Insight | Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville

Dharma Insight | Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville

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  • On Tuning a Lute
    Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Apr 3, 2018.
    During this series on the Brahma Viharas we've explored together the practice of loving kindness and some questions have emerged. Some have wondered about prayer or the meaning of "wishing." Others have been puzzled about a practice that actively encourages cultivation: "I thought we are just supposed to notice?"
    In this talk we explore more deeply the meaning and practice of "prayer" in our Buddhist tradition.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    45 min
  • Brahma Viharas: Lovingkindness Part 2
    Sharon Beckman-Brindley gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 27, 2018.
    Sharon guided a discussion about lovingkindness and how to practice so that it becomes a living and deeply meaningful part of our own daily lives.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    34 min
  • Real Love and Happiness
    Sharon Salzberg gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 20, 2018.
    Sharon reflects on real love and true happiness and how it can be cultivated.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    1 hr 7 min
  • Lovingkindness (Metta) Part I
    Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 13, 2018.
    This is the 2nd in a ten-part, series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Here, Susan Stone presents a closer look at lovingkindness.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    38 min
  • Brahma Viharas: Overview of the Heart Qualities
    Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Mar 6, 2018.
    This is the first in a ten-part, series focusing on active engagement with the four heart qualities that are a prominent part of the Buddha’s teachings. The qualities, known as Brahma Viharas, are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Here, Susan Stone presents an overview that focuses on why, in these times of great violence, practicing the Brahma Viharas is a radical act that can enlarge and sweeten our lives.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    37 min
  • Love Is A Big Deal on Valentines Day: But What Are We Really Talking About?
    Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Feb 13, 2018.
    Love is a "squirrelly" term that has many connotations and definitions. Throughout the ages poets, artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, psychologists and now neuroscientists have offered their take on one of the strongest and most beautiful emotions known to humankind.
    In honor of Valentines Day we will explore this phenomena. We will look at romantic love and forms of love beyond the romantic....forms of love that can soften and enrich our lives whether we are partnered in the classic romantic way or not.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    29 min
  • Change Can Be Your Best Friend
    Pat Coffey gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Feb 6, 2018.
    In a large part your relationship to change determines the amount of joy, ease, happiness, angst and suffering you experience in this life.
    Tonight we will explore the very 'nature of nature'. The most profound truth of nature is that everything is moving and changing.....everything.....and that a deep internalization of this natural truth opens you to great ease and freedom.
    It is more than an intellectual exercise to know change intimately. There are many practices offered by The Buddha that are designed to support your deepening comfort with change. This program will include a meditation on Befriending Change.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    31 min
  • Onward But Not Easy
    Susan Stone gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 31, 2018.
    Spiritual practice is onward-leading, as teacher Joseph Goldstein observed. However, we each face challenges as we practice, and often the movement can seem anything but onward. It can be discouraging. After a guided meditation, Susan Stone shares some of her practice challenges over time, Her account may serve to normalize your struggles and, perhaps, throw light on what she has experienced as the onward direction of practice.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    38 min
  • True Happiness
    Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk at IMCC on Jan 23, 2018.
    What is true happiness and can we ever experience it? How does it differ from transient happiness or joy? This dharma talk explores the path to true happiness and offer strategies for achieving it.
    For more information, please visit the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville website: imeditation.org
    32 min

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Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC) is a charitable organization located in central Virginia that offers a full range of Buddhist insight (Vipassana) meditation retreats, courses,…

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