Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-04-21 – We become homesick when our insecurity compels us to find refuge in exclusive affiliations, in over-consuming, in avoiding intimacy or grasping tightly to the approval of others. This talk explores how we come home to the truth of who we a…
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Tara Brach : Part 1-Realizing Our Natural Joy
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-04-23 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can cultivate and embody this intrinsic facet of our being.
Tara Brach : Part 2-Realizing Our Natural Joy
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-04-30 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can cultivate and embody this intrinsic facet of our being.
Tara Brach : Beyond Small Self
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-04-07 – While we are conditioned to become identified with limited sense of self, we have the capacity to recognize and open to who we are beyond the self. This talk investigates our most compelling domains of getting identified, and the ways a pu…
Tara Brach : Meditation and Healing Trauma
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-03-31 – Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This talk explores the three key elements that support this process: self-forgiveness, accessing a source …
Tara Brach : The Blessings of Deep Listening
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-03-24 – The Blessings of Deep Listening – Our capacity to listen deeply–to our inner life and each other–is the grounds of true understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to listening and guidelines and practices that awaken a lis…
Tara Brach : Realizing Your True Nature–Four Reflections
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-03-17 This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature–our inherent wakefuness, openness and love–is closer than we can imagine; it is more profound than we can imagine; it is easier than we can im…
Tara Brach : 2008-07-09 – Three Attitudes that Awaken and Free Our Spirit
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-07-09 Our predicament is intuiting our true nature–love, awareness–and yet regularly contracting into the self-identity conditioned by wants and fears. This talk explores three essential and liberating ways of relating to our human conditioning:…
Tara Brach : Trusting Your Basic Goodness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-03-03 – When we don’t trust who we are, we are unable to be at home in our world. This talk explores how we come to be at war with ourselves and the pathway to realizing our basic goodness.
Tara Brach : Living Aligned with the Heart
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-02-24 – We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and others, and live from our natural intelligence and tender warmth.
Tara Brach : Soul Retrieval
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-09-24 – When we become stressed and reactive, we lose contact with our natural spontaneity, wisdom and openheartedness. This talk investigates the ways we become caught in the stress-trance and the key elements in awakening: pausing and remindfuln…
Tara Brach : Listening to Our Life
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-08-27 Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural state–awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening attention dissolves the tangles of fear and craving that obscure our wholeness. This class includes both a …
Tara Brach : Turning Towards What you Love
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2008-09-03 – There is a saying: The road to hell is paved with “bad” intentions. From the Buddha we learn the path to freedom arises from wise intentions. Yet because we habitually grasp after what will immediately relieve or comfort or please us, we o…
Tara Brach : Deepening Practice
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-02-03 – This talk and question/answer format addresses the attitudes and practices that cultivate our natural wisdom and compassion.
Tara Brach : Part 2 – Presence and Aliveness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-01-27 – Part 2 – Presence and Aliveness – These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
Tara Brach : Part 1 – Presence and Aliveness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-01-20 – Part 1 – Presence and Aliveness – These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.
Tara Brach : Awakening to the Sacred
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-01-13 – Awakening to the Sacred – The tendency to think “life should be different” and to try to control experience removes us from the wisdom and compassion that naturally gives rise to healing and transformation. We learn to trust the power of o…
Tara Brach : 2010-01-06 – Taking Refuge
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-01-06 – Taking Refuge – The Buddha taught of three archetypal domains in which we awaken presence and realize freedom. In contrast to our habitual false refuges, these gateways of true refuge are dependable because they express the timeless truth …
