Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace – (2022-02-23) – 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 …

Tara Brach http://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 includes…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Cultivating Loving Kindness – 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 this talk we explore w…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives – This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – know…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing – The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroyi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness – This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensa…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Earth is Crying in our Hearts – The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web.  These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroying…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Living with Courageous Presence – The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and three key ste…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Know That You’re Here – We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken through the body, and open the senses. We th…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW) – The Buddhist scriptures describe a mind that “no longer shakes, in a world where everything is shaking.” Our times are deeply stressful and troubling, and we need…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19) – Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with a reading on silence by Gunilla Norris, and then includes guidance in letting go of tension, opening t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Compass of Our Heart – All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, we can d…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12) – When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we prac…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? – Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are invited to attune to the state of our heart and our deepest aspiration.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part 3 – We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, as the enemy. These talks explore how, i…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) – This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part II (2021-12-22) – We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, as the enemy. These talks …