Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this …
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Tara Brach : Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.
Tara Brach : Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this …
Tara Brach : Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this …
Tara Brach : Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this …
Tara Brach : Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allo…
Tara Brach : Love is Always Here
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Talk includes qu…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open a…
Tara Brach : From Ego to Eco-Identity – Homecoming to Sacred Relationship
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that a…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Embodied Awareness
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.
Tara Brach : Meditation: Embodied Awareness
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.
Tara Brach : From Head to Heart
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compas…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Awareness and Flow
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all…
Tara Brach : Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe – Working with Pain
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we ex…
Tara Brach : Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lov…
Tara Brach : Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lov…
Tara Brach : Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we ex…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Fa…
Tara Brach : For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together. Tara is joined by Mark Dru…