Tara Brach

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditat…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is o…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts? What gives us the courage to bring our whole being into serving and savoring? And what is our vision for a new world?  …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is t…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emo…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emo…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and s…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with oth…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear, mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and al…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current time…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.”  How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times– give rise to a growing compassion and wisdom in our world?  In this talk we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections, and explore sev…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hol…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our w…