Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an in…
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Tara Brach : Beloved Community
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and fre…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is …
Tara Brach : Disarming Our Hearts – Part 2: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path
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Tara Brach : Meditation: Awareness is Our Home
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of…
Tara Brach : Disarming Our Hearts – Part 1
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridg…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Body and Spirit
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem, “the spirit likes to dress up,” from Mary Oliver.
Tara Brach : Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inne…
Tara Brach : Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inne…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Listening to Life
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 ocean of awareness that includes and…
Tara Brach : Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inne…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norr…
Tara Brach : Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Living Presence – Experiencing Aliveness and Openheartedness
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the mind. Then continuing wit…
Tara Brach : Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help us connect with our capacities for clarity, bravery and openheartedness. This is what Tara explores w…
Tara Brach : Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help us connect with our capacities for clarity, bravery and openheartedness. This is what Tara explores w…
Tara Brach : Guided Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach When we learn to listen to our inner life without interference, we open to a tender and full experience of presence. This meditation guides us in awakening an intimate quality of listening, as we attend to sensations, moods, sounds and the entire dance…
Tara Brach : Homecoming to Loving Awareness (Retreat talk)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach We have strong conditioning to identify as a separate self, and to feel all the fears and attachments that arise from not realizing our true belonging. This talk includes teachings and several experiential reflections that help us wake up from the tran…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into the…
Tara Brach : Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Many are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can trust our unshakeable goodness and find a path of loving into healing. We talk about the r…