Tara Brach

Seeking What’s True: Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other  – Pt 1 of 3 (2016-10-05) – The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three part…

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (2016-10-05) – Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the chang…

Spiritual Empowerment (2016-09-28) – When we are trying to control life, we are removed from presence, and act in ways that separate us from others and solidify the experience of being a insecure self. This talk explores our often unconscious strategie…

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (2016-09-28) – In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness …

Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) – It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three essential fac…

Meditation: Listening to and Feeling Our Life – Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our …

Meditation: Listening to and Feeling Our Life – Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our …

The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachments and Addictions – In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm of Hungry Ghosts. This talk explores the attachments and addictions th…

Retreat – Morning Instruction – RAIN – Q and A (2016-08-27) – Tara gives morning instruction on retreat including R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish), then responds to questions from retreatants. Includes a question on resourcing when wor…

Retreat – Morning Instruction – RAIN – Q and A (2016-08-27) – Tara gives morning instruction on retreat including R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish), then responds to questions from retreatants. Includes a question on resourcing when wor…

Trusting Our Hearts (2016-04-06) – Trust in our basic goodness directly effects our capacity for intimacy with others, creativity and living fully.  This talk explores the ways that our caregivers and culture undermine that trust, primarily by giving u…

Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation from Retreat (2016-08-27) – Tara gives morning instructions about how to deepen our meditation, then leads us in a guided meditation.

Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation from Retreat (2016-08-27) – Tara gives morning instructions about how to deepen our meditation, then leads us in a guided meditation.