2013-05-08 – Meditation: Coming Home to Being – Enjoy the meditation prior to the talk at Tara’s Wednesday night’s class at RRUUC.
Tara Brach
Remembering Being
2013-05-08 – Remembering Being – Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual control strategies that keep us from presence; and the …
Remembering Being
2013-05-08 – Remembering Being – Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual control strategies that keep us from presence; and the …
Loving Ourselves (Retreat Talk)
2013-04-28 – Retreat Talk: Loving Ourselves – The greatest truths we forget, and one of them is that if we don’t love the life that is right here–what we perceive as self–we are unable to embrace our world. This talk explores the suffering of turning…
Loving Ourselves (Retreat Talk)
2013-04-28 – Retreat Talk: Loving Ourselves – The greatest truths we forget, and one of them is that if we don’t love the life that is right here–what we perceive as self–we are unable to embrace our world. This talk explores the suffering of turning…
Letting Go Into Living and Dying
2013-04-24 – Letting Go Into Living and Dying – Our capacity to live and love fully is directly related to our acceptance of change and loss. This talk explores how we avoid the pain of loss, ways of practicing that open us to this changing world, and …
Letting Go Into Living and Dying
2013-04-24 – Letting Go Into Living and Dying – Our capacity to live and love fully is directly related to our acceptance of change and loss. This talk explores how we avoid the pain of loss, ways of practicing that open us to this changing world, and …
2013-04-17 – Entering the Mystery
2013-04-17 – Entering the Mystery – John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginners mind” that enables us …
Heavenly Messengers
2013-04-10 – Heavenly Messengers – Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice, on a contemplative approach to death and dying. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continu…
Part 3: Three Blessings – Looking Into the Mirror
2013-04-03 – Part 3: Three Blessings – Looking In the Mirror – The third gift on the journey of awakening is the mirror. In this talk we explore how to look back into our own minds and discover the timeless, radiant presence that is our essence. It is …
Part 2: Three Blessings – Inner Fire
2013-03-27 – Part 2: Three Blessings – Inner Fire – Each of us has the longing to manifest our full potential–to realize and live from loving, awake awareness. This longing is our inner fire, and when conscious and vibrant, it energizes the spiritual …
(retreat talk) Self Compassion
2009-10-26 – (retreat talk) Self Compassion – We can only find love and peace in this life if we are able to hold our inner life with compassion. This talk explores the subtle and therefore often unseen ways that we turn on ourselves, and the pathways …
Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness
2013-03-13 – Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness – In this two part series we explore the evolution of consciousness through the lens of three key capacities: A forgiving heart, inner fire (conscious aspiration toward freedom) and self-i…
(retreat talk) Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart
2010-12-31 – Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart – Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and the key meditative he…
The Fires of Loss
2010-06-16 – The Fires of Loss – We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with loss. This talk describes the refuge of presence in th…
Beyond the Interpreted World
2013-02-20 – Beyond the Interpreted World – Hildegard of Bingen writes, “An interpreted world is not a Home.” This talk explores the suffering that arises from believing in an interpreted reality, and the love, aliveness and freedom that becomes access…
The Wings of a Liberating Presence
2013-02-13 – The Wings of a Liberating Presence – No matter what is happening in our lives, if we relate to our experience with mindful recognition and an allowing presence, it becomes a portal to freedom. In this talk we explore how the cultivation of…
Embodying True Refuge–Serving and Savoring Life
2013-02-06 – Embodying True Refuge–Serving and Savoring Life – This talk traces the story of the Buddha’s awakening, and reflects on four key archetypal elements that are relevant for each of us as we come home to our true nature. There is a particula…
Remembering What Matters
2013-01-30 – Remembering What Matters – Our conscious aspiration toward awakening is what energizes the spiritual path. This talk reviews the main characteristic of a vital aspiration, the conditioning that obscures our deepest intentions and offers gu…
The God Whom I Love is Inside (2012-12-29) (retreat talk)
2012-12-29 – (retreat talk) The God Whom I Love is Inside – Our suffering arises from unlived life–the fears and loneliness and hurt that we have been unable to digest and include in our heart. This talk explores our conditioning to become dis-embodie…
