Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-25 – Compassion – Responding to Suffering with Care – Our capacity to respond to ourselves and our world with compassion is the essence of all healing and spiritual awakening. This talk explores the trance of separation that blocks our natural …
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Tara Brach : Metta – Lovingkindness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-18 – Metta – Lovingkindness – This talk explores what gets in the way of loving presence and the training that awakens and frees our hearts. Please donate at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Thank you!
Tara Brach : Blessings of a Forgiving Heart
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-11 – The roots of peace and war are within these very hearts. In the moments that we release blame, we reconnect with the compassionate presence that heals ourselves and others as well. This talk includes a meditation that guides us in awakenin…
Tara Brach : Self-Forgiveness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-04 – Holding ourselves with a compassionate, forgiving heart is the gateway to healing, and to intimacy with our world. This talk explores our deep conditioning to be at war with ourselves, and the insights and elements of forgiving that can ca…
Tara Brach : Trusting Who We Are
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-07-28 – If we investigate, we will find that much suffering arises out of mistrust–of ourselves, others and life. This talk explores the genesis of the great challenges of doubt and mistrust, and the pathway to trusting the goodness that is our e…
Tara Brach : Turning Towards What You Love
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-07-21 – For many of us, the most apparent junctures of spiritual transformation are spurred on by challenging life situations. This talk looks at how our conscious aspiration for awakening, and our practice of mindful presence, can help us find pe…
Tara Brach : The True Revolution
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-12-19 – In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This…
Tara Brach : The Power of Mind
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-07-07 – The Buddha taught that “Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind.” This talk explores how our intention and attention can tap into the living awareness that is our source, and give rise to healing of body, heart an…
Tara Brach : Stress, Presence and Freedom
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-10-31 – We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and relaxing with what is arising, can cut through this cond…
Tara Brach : Gateways to Happiness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-02-06 While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How do we relax and open to the blessings of our life that are always and already here? …
Tara Brach : The Unreal Other
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-06-09 – When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance and sometimes obvious injury. This talk explores how we create separation from others, and the ways we…
Tara Brach : Part 2 – Relating Wisely with Fear
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-06-02 – While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip.
Tara Brach : Part 1 – Relating Wisely with Fear
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-05-26 – While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can train our attention to free ourselves from its grip.
Tara Brach : Desire and Spiritual Freedom
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-05-19 – The Buddha taught that becoming identified with “wanting mind” obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of “wanting…
Tara Brach : Desire and Spiritual Freedom
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-05-19 – The Buddha taught that becoming identified with “wanting mind” obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of “wanting…
Tara Brach : Relating Wisely to “Wanting Mind”
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-05-12 – While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges–substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships…
Tara Brach : Relating Wisely to “Wanting Mind”
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-05-12 – While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges–substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships…
Tara Brach : My Religion is Kindness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-05-28 – The expression of inner freedom is a kind heart. This talk explores how we armor our hearts, and the pathways of awakening our natural capacity for loving unconditionally. The session includes an experiential inquiry that helps reveal the …
Tara Brach : Embodied Spirit
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-04-28 – The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our body, and the pathways of homecoming.
Tara Brach : Embodied Spirit
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-04-28 – The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our body, and the pathways of homecoming.
