Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love: Conversation between Rev Angel Kyodo Williams and Tara Brach – Our happiness and capacity to love fully arise as we face and embrace all domains of our existence. In this conversation we look at the often unexa…
Tara Brach
Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17)
Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17) – When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting i…
Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.)
Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.) – In this short practice we are guided in bringing the mindfulness and self-nurturing of RAIN to a difficult emotion. This helps us shift from feeling stuck and reactive to the tender and spacious presence that i…
Fear and Love (retreat talk)
Fear and Love (2021-11-01) – Only when we face our fears can we discover the freedom to love without holding back. This talk looks at how unprocessed fear contracts our body, heart and mind, and on a societal level is the cause of othering and violence…
Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10)
Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10) – This RAIN meditation helps us explore pathways to nurturing ourselves in a way that brings profound transformation and healing.
After the RAIN: The Flowering of Awake Awareness – Part 2 (2021 -11 -03)
After the RAIN: The Flowering of Awake Awareness – Part 2 (2021 -11 -03) – The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of id…
After the RAIN: Part 2 – The Flowering of Awake Awareness (2021 -11 -03)
After the RAIN: Part 2 – The Flowering of Awake Awareness – (2021 -11 -03) – The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of …
Meditation: The Return to Presence – Rest Your Mind in What Is (2021-11-03)
Meditation: The Return to Presence – Rest Your Mind In What Is (2021-11-03) – It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and…
After the RAIN: Part 1 – The Flowering of Awake Awareness
After the RAIN: Part 1 – The Flowering of Awake Awareness – The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of identity from tha…
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27)
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27) – This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every…
Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance
Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance – If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation–actively inquiring into what is happening inside us…
Meditation: A Practice of RAIN (2021-10-20)
Meditation: A Practice of RAIN (2021-10-20) – The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the mi…
Grieving and Timeless Love
Grieving and Timeless Love – How we relate to change and loss is directly connected to how fully we live and love. This talk looks at the classic ways we avoid opening to the realness of loss, and how our sorrows and grief can become a portal to awaken…
Meditation: A Practice of RAIN
Meditation: A Practice of RAIN – The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of whatev…
Realizing Your Deepest Desires
Realizing Your Deepest Desires – This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake awareness and love. We explore ways to realize and open t…
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go – This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the pr…
Facing Fear in a Traumatized World
Facing Fear in a Traumatized World (2021-09-29) – Unprocessed fear cuts us off from our full aliveness and spirit, and it separates us from others. This talk looks at how we bring healing to the trauma and deep fears that cause us to dissociate from ou…
Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29)
Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29) – In this meditation, we relax and open our body and mind, and then explore an encounter with our Future Self – facing Fear in a Traumatized World is the expression of our most evolved and …
Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22)
Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) – Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns o…
Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22)
Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22) – We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.
