Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep – This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths – Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including the…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Silence That is Listening – Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Trusting the Gold – Realizing Our Basic Goodness – Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love and awarenes…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect wit…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness – Part 1 – Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment of a…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Realizing Your Deepest Intention – The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the li…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home – This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over, we become fam…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Freedom Beyond Selfing – We spend many moments in a trance of selfing – preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate self. The suffering is that this self-fixation obscures the depth and mystery of our being. In this tal…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be – We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is. Let go of what is…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel – In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come with …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: “Yes” to Our Moments – When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and then opening to all sounds, sensations and …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Intraconnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel – In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, Intraconnected. They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come with …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Body and Spirit – 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 (the spirit likes to dress up) from Mary Oliver.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) – The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what) am I?” This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awareness, and the blessings of embodying the realization of our radiant,…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness – Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the changing flow of l…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness – Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation – In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about his 4 1/2 years on a wandering retreat and the lessons he learned from a near-death experience. The two …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) – We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invit…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart – Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care. When we are awake and who…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Touching Peace – This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in r…