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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-08-04 – Holding ourselves with a compassionate, forgiving heart is the gateway to healing, and to intimacy with our world. This talk explores our deep conditioning to be at war with ourselves, and the insights and elements of forgiving that can ca…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-07-28 – If we investigate, we will find that much suffering arises out of mistrust–of ourselves, others and life. This talk explores the genesis of the great challenges of doubt and mistrust, and the pathway to trusting the goodness that is our e…