Tara Brach

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence – When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through “relaxing back” and reopening our attention to our senses, rela…

Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06) – The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and …

Meditation: The Practice of RAIN (2019-02-06) – 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 …

Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof (from the Archives) – NOTE: Due to the unusually windy and cold weather, we had to cancel class on January 30, 2019. Tara selected this talk from the archives for the podcast as especially appropriate. This talk …

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (a favorite from the archives) – We begin with a listening attention, relaxing open, letting sounds wash through. Scanning through and feeling the aliveness of the body, listening to the breath. Not…

Without Anxiety About Imperfection – featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Brach (2019-01-23) – Internationally known Buddhist teacher and writer, Haemin Sunim, talks about his new book – Love for Imperfect Things. Then, he and Tara talk tog…

Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (2019-01-23) – By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive conti…

Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16) – The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention come…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2016-01-16) – When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we prac…

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering (2019-01-09) – This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony tha…