2010-10-27 – Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discer…
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Part 2 – Mindfulness of Emotions – Introductory Series
2010-10-20 – Part 2 – Mindfulness of Emotions – Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecur…
Part 1 – The Art and Science of Meditation – Introductory Series
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…
The Path of Peace
2007-10-03 – The Path of Peace – Awakening from the Trance of Separation – We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to…
Loving the Earth
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…
Be All That You Are
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…
Equanimity
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…
Equanimity
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…
Joy
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 …
Compassion – Responding to Suffering with Care
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 …
Metta – Lovingkindness
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!
Blessings of a Forgiving Heart
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…
Self-Forgiveness
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…
Trusting Who We Are
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…
Turning Towards What You Love
2010-07-21 – For many of us, the most apparent junctures of spiritual transformation are spurred on by challenging life situations. This talk looks at how our conscious aspiration for awakening, and our practice of mindful presence, can help us find pe…
The True Revolution
2007-12-19 – In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This…
The Power of Mind
2010-07-07 – The Buddha taught that “Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind.” This talk explores how our intention and attention can tap into the living awareness that is our source, and give rise to healing of body, heart an…
Stress, Presence and Freedom
2007-10-31 – We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and relaxing with what is arising, can cut through this cond…
Gateways to Happiness
2008-02-06 While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How do we relax and open to the blessings of our life that are always and already here? …
The Unreal Other
2010-06-09 – When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance and sometimes obvious injury. This talk explores how we create separation from others, and the ways we…
