Tara Brach

Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 – There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find lib…

Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness – This guided practice establishes a kind, friendly attention with the image and felt sense of a smile, and evokes an embodied presence. We open to the awake awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing so…

Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 1 – There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find lib…

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence – We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence – We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.

Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat (2017-05-02) – Topics include individualizing your meditation practice, working with the “tangles,” forgiveness practice, and using the “nurturing” of RAIN. Let us know if you find this kind of short cli…

Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat (2017-05-02) – Topics include individualizing your meditation practice, working with the “tangles,” forgiveness practice, and using the “nurturing” of RAIN. Let us know if you find this kind of short cli…

The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World (2017-05-24) – The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World – Our true refuge is reality – only by opening to “things as they are” do we find true peace and freedom. This talk explore…

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (2017-05-24) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect…

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (2017-05-24) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect…

Radical-Compassion – Part 2 (2017-05-10) – Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and others – what I call Radical Compassion – has three key …

Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (2017-05-02) – A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely.  This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a classic th…

Radical Compassion – Part 1 (retreat talk) (2017-04-30) – Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and others – what I call Radical Compassion -…