Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-04-20 – Part 2 — Realizing True Well-being – Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two part s…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-04-13 – Part 1 — Realizing True Well-being – Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two part s…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-03-30 – Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion – Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ours…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-03-23 – Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion – Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ours…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-02-23 – When We are Lost – It’s part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking– to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also our capacity to recognize our trance and choose pres…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-01-19 – Inviting Life’s Difficulties to Tea – One of the most illuminating themes in the Buddha’s life story was the regular appearance of Mara–god of selfishness and greed, anger and fear, doubt and shame. Each time Mara surfaced, the Buddha’s r…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-01-05 – This talk invites a contemplation of three archetypal domains of spiritual awakening: Buddha-awareness, Dharma- truth (the way things are), and Sangha-loving relatedness. We explore our habit of turning toward false refuges, and the way we…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-29 – Awakening arises out of presence with the changing ground of our lives. This talk explores three key gateways to liberating presence: Forgiveness, inner fire (aspiration) and a deep inquiry into the nature of our own mind. This talk was gi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2009-09-02 – A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. This talk explores the conditioning that keeps us in reactive trance and the ways we can deepen our at…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2009-09-02 – A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. This talk explores the conditioning that keeps us in reactive trance and the ways we can deepen our at…

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…