Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-08 – Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it’s narrow fixation, and the prayer that arises out of our deep heart’s longing. We explore h…
Tara Brach : Seeing Beyond the Veil
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-15 – The source of our suffering is that we become identified with egoic roles and defenses that separate us from the truth of what we are. This talk explores some of the constricting identities that we take on, and the process of compassionate…
Tara Brach : Ask the Friend for Love
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-08 – Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it’s narrow fixation, and the prayer that arises out of our deep heart’s longing. We explore h…
Tara Brach : Meditation on Intention
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-08 – This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on “Ask the Friend for Love.” Find more of Tara’s guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new email list there, too.
Tara Brach : A Listening Meditation
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-17 – This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the November 17th talk on “A Listening Presence.” Find more of Tara’s guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new email list there, too.
Tara Brach : Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-24 – Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity – Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life–gratitude and generosity–includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart…
Tara Brach : A Listening Presence – Three Domains of Training
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-17 – A Listening Presence – Three Domains of Training – Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing the truth of who we are. This talk focuses on three key facets of deep listening–non-distractedness, n…
Tara Brach : Releasing Karmic Patterns
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-10 – Releasing Karmic Patterns – We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfuln…
Tara Brach : Part 4 – Living From Presence – Introductory Series
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-03 – Part 4 – Living from Presence – Our human potential is to express the wings of presence–mindfulness and lovingkindness–through all facets of daiy living. This talk explores the practices that enable us to both serve and savor this precio…
Tara Brach : Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – Introductory Series
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-10-27 – Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discer…
Tara Brach : Part 2 – Mindfulness of Emotions – Introductory Series
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-10-20 – Part 2 – Mindfulness of Emotions – Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecur…
Tara Brach : Part 1 – The Art and Science of Meditation – Introductory Series
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-10-13 – Part 1 – The Art and Science of Meditation – Introductory Series – The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachings that give a context to the path of practice. We explore the two basic types of meditation–concen…
Tara Brach : The Path of Peace
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-10-03 – The Path of Peace – Awakening from the Trance of Separation – We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to…
Tara Brach : Loving the Earth
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-09-29 – Loving the Earth – How is it possible that we humans have wreaked such havoc on this planet, on the web of life that we belong to? This talk explores the ways that egoic consciousness can lead to violating life, and how evolving conscious…
Tara Brach : Be All That You Are
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-09-15 – Be All That You Are – We are conditioned to live in stories that obscure the vastness, goodness and mystery of what we are. This talk explores the ways we construct a limited self-identity and the pathways to realizing and living from a fu…
Tara Brach : Equanimity
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-09-08 – Equanimity – Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clearly what is happening within and around us, and respo…
Tara Brach : Equanimity
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-09-08 – Equanimity – Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clearly what is happening within and around us, and respo…
Tara Brach : Joy
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-09-01 – Joy – Joy is an innate capacity, one of the primary expressions of an awakened heart and mind. Yet because of our conditioned patterns of thought and emotion, this capacity for openness, happiness and full aliveness can be obscured. This …
Tara Brach : Compassion – Responding to Suffering with Care
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-25 – Compassion – Responding to Suffering with Care – Our capacity to respond to ourselves and our world with compassion is the essence of all healing and spiritual awakening. This talk explores the trance of separation that blocks our natural …
Tara Brach : Metta – Lovingkindness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-18 – Metta – Lovingkindness – This talk explores what gets in the way of loving presence and the training that awakens and frees our hearts. Please donate at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Thank you!
Tara Brach : Blessings of a Forgiving Heart
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-11 – The roots of peace and war are within these very hearts. In the moments that we release blame, we reconnect with the compassionate presence that heals ourselves and others as well. This talk includes a meditation that guides us in awakenin…