Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 – This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent o…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence – This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle‘s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen – A vegetarian diet, while encouraged in most schools of Buddhism, isn’t a requirement of the Buddhist path. But there are powerfu…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging – We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores how meditation and…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts – We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Awakening through Difficult Emotions: “The Poison is the Medicine” – Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in fear, anxiety, anger or shame. This exploration looks at how the emotion that takes over, when we attend with mindfulness and care, can be…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Breath by Breath – Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with long deep breathing, and then establishes a mindful presence with our natu…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror – This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we exp…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Listening to Life – The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocea…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire – This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence – This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to g…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness – This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we …

Tara Brach http://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 http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Awakening from the Landlocked Self – The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. This talk explores the trance of identifying as Somebody, and the compassionate witnessing that allows us to discover the freedom of our natura…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We deepen the intention to befriend and relax with whatever aris…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2022-07-20 – Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening beyond the separate, fearful self – Most of us unconsciously identify as a separate, threatened, deficient self. This talk shines a light on this conditioning and explores the ways that mindfulness…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence – The meditation begins with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence – The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that are a deeply conditioned part of the human experience. In th…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence – This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and going. And in the background, experiencing an alert inner s…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Navigating the Dark Ages – How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual path to steady our heart and …