Tara Brach

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention – In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized with the us…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart – Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help u…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing with Life – This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing with Life – This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart – Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help u…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence – This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We end with a b…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) – Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and su…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Letting Life Live through You – This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as we open to the awareness that…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness – In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness in our bodie…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace – Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liberating acceptance, a heartspace that includes all of life and…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care  – This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that include…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness – The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Embodied Spirit – Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, th…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach – Hameed Ali is an author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization. In this interview we explore ways of approaching awakening to who we are, and lo…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness – This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake awareness, a…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World – Part 1 – This week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron’s newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It’s a powerful book that I highly recommend! One of our deepest inquiries is how to f…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World  – Part 2 – Last week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron’s newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It’s a powerful book that I highly recommend!  One of our deepest inquiries is how to…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Living Presence – 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…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence – The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of sensations, feeling…