Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-07-04 – Part 2 – Freedom: Taking the Backward Step – This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our true nature – inquiry and letting go. Please support t…
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Tara Brach : Part 1 – Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-6-27 – Part 1 – Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask – We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit – the love and awareness – that animates our own and all beings. In this talk we expl…
Tara Brach : Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-06-20 – Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation) – Equinimity, the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience, is the grounds for unconditional love and wise action. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in reactivit…
Tara Brach : Committing to Joy
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-06-13 – Committing to Joy – What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to “love what is.” Please support this podcast by d…
Tara Brach : Cultivating Compassion
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-06-06 – Cultivating Compassion – We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to inc…
Tara Brach : Cultivating Compassion
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-06-06 – Cultivating Compassion – We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to inc…
Tara Brach : Intimacy with Life – Awakening Love
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-05-30 – Intimacy with Life – Awakening Love – The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes–dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioni…
Tara Brach : Training for Intimacy with Life
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-05-23 – Training for Intimacy with Life – “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things” teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This tal…
Tara Brach : Part 2: The Lion’s Roar
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-05-16 – Part 2: The Lion’s Roar – The Buddha taught that faith–trust in our true nature–is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom …
Tara Brach : Part 1: The Lion’s Roar
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-05-09 – Part 1: The Lion’s Roar – The Buddha taught that faith–trust in our true nature–is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom …
Tara Brach : Be Who You Are (Retreat Talk)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-05-02 – (Retreat Talk) Be Who You Are – By bringing a surrendering presence to mental, emotional and physical domains, we undo the trance of separation and discover our true nature. This talk explores the practices that cultivate the non-resisting…
Tara Brach : The World in Our Heart
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-04-25 – The World in Our Heart – Some contemporary evolutionary theories track our development from survival of the fittest to group selection whereby we have the capacity for cooperation and empathy. This talk explores how our meditation practice…
Tara Brach : Open Heart, Open Mind
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-04-18 – Open Heart, Open Mind – Tsoknyi Rinpoche with Tara Brach – In talking about his new book, Tibetan teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche describes the layers of self that cover over our “essence love,” and the way that mindfulness reconnects us to our t…
Tara Brach : A Mindful Nation
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-04-14 – A Mindful Nation – One of the great sources of hope is the “quiet revolution” of mindfulness that is appearing in schools, hospitals, prisons, the military, corporate settings and the lives of millions of people around the world. In this t…
Tara Brach : Beyond the Prison of Beliefs
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-04-04 – Beyond the Prison of Beliefs – Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible…
Tara Brach : Alchemy of Wise Effort in Spiritual Life
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-03-21 – Alchemy of Wise Effort in Spiritual Life – The ground of wise effort is our sincere intentionality toward presence, love and freedom. Yet our habit is to go into trance, and latch on to narrowed intentions of self-enhancement or defense. W…
Tara Brach : Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-03-14 – Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing – This line from poet Galway Kinnell reminds us of the possibility of meeting our inner life with a loving, healing presence. When we do, we loosen the trance of unworthiness and reconnect with our …
Tara Brach : Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-03-07 – Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty – We suffer when we forget who we are and get caught in a limited sense of self. This talk explores how we become identified with a sliver of what we are, and the pathway to remembering our wholeness. Whe…
Tara Brach : Embodied Presence: Gateway to Intimacy and Freedom
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-02-29 – Embodied Presence: Gateway to Intimacy and Freedom – We often move through the day in a reactive trance, removed from the aliveness of our bodies and this natural world. This talk explores how coming home to our bodies awakens us to livin…
Tara Brach : Opening the Lotus of Your Heart
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2012-02-03 – Opening the Lotus of Your Heart – (from 2012 Women’s Retreat) Our reaction to life’s stress is to contract, and we live many moments with a tight body, clenched heart and narrowed mind. This talk explores how deepening attention can reconn…
