Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness (2016-10-12) – This meditation guides us in recognizing the formless awareness that is always here, but often outside of conscious awareness.  As awareness awakens to realize itself, we come home to our primordi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other – Pt 2 of 3 (2016-10-12) – The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three part…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Breath and Presence (2016-10-12) – For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establishing the breath as a homebase, and then invites a clear a…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Seeking What’s True: Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other  – Pt 1 of 3 (2016-10-05) – The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three part…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (2016-10-05) – Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the chang…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (2016-09-28) – In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) – It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three essential fac…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachments and Addictions – In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm of Hungry Ghosts. This talk explores the attachments and addictions th…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Trusting Our Hearts (2016-04-06) – Trust in our basic goodness directly effects our capacity for intimacy with others, creativity and living fully.  This talk explores the ways that our caregivers and culture undermine that trust, primarily by giving u…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Reflection: Your Future Self – Accessing the Wisdom of Your Heart (2016-08-24) – When we are cut off from our natural love and wisdom, there’s a way home. This meditation guides us to a visit with our future self, and reveals a pathway to our awakened,…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Letting Go: The Freedom of Awake Awareness (2016-08-31) – We know we need to let go of harmful habits like obsessive worry, blame and over consuming to experience true well-being, yet much of the time we are stuck and judge ourselves for being out of c…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (2016-08-31) – This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Your Future Self: Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind (2016-08-24) – Our lives are shaped by our evolutionary past – the fears and wants that arise from a separate self sense – and the pull of our evolutionary potential – our awakened heart and min…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (2016-08-24) – In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation reconnects by opening all the senses, turning t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2016-08-17) – This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to mo…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (2016-08-10) – We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invit…